This guest post comes to us via MakeSpace, a super awesome self-storage provider utilizing make-life-easy technology. Clients pack up (provided) plastic bins and schedule a pick-up using a cloud-based system– MakeSpace re-delivers the items you need when and where you need them. To learn more, visit MakeSpace online.
After a long day at work, and hanging your winter wear in your organized entryway, the first thing you want to do is bury yourself under a pile of blankets and curl up to a good book in your living room. Or maybe a good bottle of wine paired with the latest episode of Broad City. But it’s tough to unwind in your living room if it’s weighed down by scattered items that would be better off out of sight, or at the very least, off the floor. Give your most lived in room a space-lift with any one of these five stylish storage solutions:
1. Podpad
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Hailing from the city whose name was decided by a coin flip, Portland, the wall-mountable Podpad is the reigning champion of pulling triple duty. Open it’s four doors to reveal eight compartments and zero disappointment. It’s essentially a medicine cabinet (for your iPhone, charging dock, keys, mail, and other small items) and a murphy bed for your MacBook. Close the doors and you have a contemporary conversation piece wrapped in walnut singing, “Now I’ve got you in my space, I won’t let go of you. Got you shackled in my embrace, I’m latching on to you.
2. Brix
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Combine the magic of LEGOs with your taste for the finer things in life and you’ve got Brix. Stack them, stagger them, situate them horizontally, mix-and-match colors, or go all white everything for a pristine powder look. After you’ve unleashed your imagination, unleash Brix’s European Birch plywood drawers and stash your cash. Or more logical things like your iPad, books, magazines, yoga mat, and mementos. Have a lamp, TV, or photo frame that needs a spot to chill? Strut its stuff on top of Brix’ steel-reinforced, high-gloss polyester-lacquered roof. So fancy.
3. RKNL20
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Contrary to popular belief, this curvaceous centerpiece from Brooklyn is not an upside down AirPort Extreme. The graceful RKNL20 is actually a floating rest stop for your coffee mug and pretty feet. Slide your magazines, coffee table books, and TV remote in the space between the two discs and guess what? You just made the world’s sexiest sandwich that oozes nothing but refinement. Best of all, the RKNL20 comes in different sizes and colors. Worst of all, you have to wait 12 weeks for this made-to-order masterpiece to land at your door.
4. As If From Nowhere….
Image via Orla Reynolds
Live in a small apartment? Designed by former ballerina Orla Reynolds, As if from nowhere… is your perfect companion. It helps feed your beautiful mind and face in half the space. Play peek-a-boo with the multi-colored shapes between the shelves, and in mere seconds, the unassuming bookcase turns into a playful dining set for you, two guests, and an imaginary friend.
What? Your table and chairs no longer have to waste precious square-footage? Awww yeah.
5. Doc Sofa Bunk Bed
Image via Redesign Revolution
After all that dancing, you and your friends are ready to catch some Zs. You have your own bed, but where do you store your friends? If you live in a studio, the Doc Sofa Bunk Bed is the storage solution for two tired bodies. Four simple movements transform this sofa into a bunk bed that giggles in the face of space-hogging pull-out mattresses.
And if blinding orange isn’t your style, don’t worry. You can choose from a variety of fabric colors on Bonbon’s website.
– The MakeSpace Team
** MakeSpace is a super awesome self-storage provider utilizing make-life-easy technology. Clients pack up (provided) plastic bins and schedule a pick-up using a cloud-based system– MakeSpace re-delivers the items you need when and where you need them. To learn more, visit MakeSpace online.
** Havenly is a young (fun!) interior design start-up aiming to create stunning spaces entirely over the web. Clients pay one super low flat fee, work with a Havenly designer online and (after the usual but FUN back and forth) receive an awesome rendering of their room w/ their soon-to-be-purchased new items and their make-it-work old items in a gorgeous, cohesive look. For more information, visit www.Havenly.com.