8 Storage Solutions to Organize Your Stylish Home

Even in the cleanest of homes, it’s crazy how stuff just accumulates. You can try your best, but sometimes, between work, your social calendar and your family, it gets hard to keep your home organized.

There are tons of tips and tricks out there to help you get sorted. Purchasing high-quality home furniture designed to make your life easier should top that list. With storage furniture designed for every room in your house, you’ll be able to breathe easy and check off one more thing from your to-do: get rid of clutter.

Here are 8 storage solutions to organize your stylish home.

1. Install entryway cabinets

The first step is organizing one of the messiest places of your home: the entryway. That space often becomes more of a clutter zone, because of all the coming and going. Sometimes, it doesn’t get as much love as the rest of the home when it comes to furnishing and decorating.

Start with entryway storage cabinets. These come in a variety of shapes and sizes and are especially practical if your entryway lacks a closet. You could opt for something compact and stylish like this Small Storage Cabinet with Doors and Shelves or the Small Storage Cabinet with Door. Both pieces are versatile enough to integrate seamlessly into your entryway, or any other space you place them in.

A tall cabinet, like the gorgeous accent piece that is the Tall Storage Cabinet with Doors, could benefit larger spaces and hold everything from shoes to accessories.

If you prefer to save some space on the floor, hang up a mounted coat rack with shelves. Pair it with a shoe or storage bench if you’ve got the extra real estate.

We also love another accent option, like this Accent Storage Cabinet with Doors from our Salinas Collection. Not only does it provide all the entryway storage you need, it’s also a sophisticated piece that elevates your home with its refined appearance that makes it easy to decorate based on the theme of your aesthetic.

2. Add open shelves

Vertical space is too often forgotten. It adds so much potential to our homes, not only for décor and style, but also for function and storage.

If you’re not using the space to spruce up your home with artwork or hanging photographs and plants, then consider open shelves. They can hold décor like figurines and vases, books, or more practical items. Think of using stylish objects that can easily hold smaller essentials, like woven baskets or decorative storage boxes. These can be placed between décor and mesh seamlessly with the rest of the space with style.

Open shelves are also a stylish and practical option for the kitchen — think of displaying spices or dried food in clear jars, next to piles of colorful cookbooks.

3. Furnish your laundry room

Here’s another room where storage cabinets are not only important, but often essential. Measure out your space to find out how much real estate you’re working with and plan which portion can be saved for storage. Items like laundry detergent, softener, and dryer sheets are best stored up high and away from kids or pets. Even if you have a stackable washer and dryer stored away in a closet, there’s usually still room above for laundry room cabinets.

Read our full guide on laundry room cabinets to find the solution right for your space.

4. Optimize small spaces

Sometimes, the smallest of spaces (or homes) can be the hardest to organize. Lack of space can cause a real problem, especially in a family home. There’s a positive to being short on surface area — it allows you to be creative with your space and you might be surprised with what you come up with.

Plan your layout and keep corners, staircases, and hallways in mind. The smallest nook and crannies could have storage potential. You could opt for flexible storage pieces that are mobile and can be moved around when necessary, like this 2 Drawer Mobile File Cabinet.

Sideboard cabinets or console tables are also great pieces to add to smaller spaces; they’re multi-purpose, stylish, and offer additional storage. Remember to maximize wall space with shelves or hooks, or the top of cabinets with baskets or boxes.

5. Organize your workspace

There are a few things you should think about when organizing your workspace or dedicated home office. We’ve compiled a few blogs to help you, including a guide on the best home office desks or how to choose the perfect office furniture.

There are storage pieces designed for the home office, like our Farmhouse 2 Drawer Lateral File Cabinet with Shelves. You could browse our range of home office storage — there are pieces for every space, even if you don’t have a dedicated office and need furniture that could easily fit into a kitchen or living room. You could also look out for computer desks with a hutch or buy a hutch on its own to add to your current set-up.

6. Write in bookcases to your layout

Bookworms might think otherwise, but bookcases can have multiple storage purposes in your home. If you’re not cramming shelves with novels and magazines, you could use your bookcase as a plant stand, or alternate book and plant shelves.

In living rooms, bookcases could either be used for décor, or, with the addition of baskets and bins, to store playthings and toys that might be lying around your common living space. The same could be said for the bedroom, where a bookcase could be used for extra storage. It’s something to consider if you have more vertical space than surface area in either room.

Bookcases are also essential for storage in a home office to keep all the materials you need for your work day close at hand or also bring some decorative items in to carry your home’s style aesthetic into your workspace.

Whether you’re using your bookcase for storage or décor, you could go with one of our more stylish pieces, like the farmhouse-inspired 4 Shelf Farmhouse Bookcase from our Homestead Collection or the Designer Bookcase with Doors from our Coliseum Collection. We also have plenty of classic and timeless pieces like this Tall 5 Shelf Bookcase from our Somerset Collection.

7. Seek out secret compartments

Have things you want to store, but don’t necessarily want them out on display? Hidden drawers and compartments are your friends. Think of end tables with drawers, or side cabinets with doors and drawers. These pieces will prove especially useful in spaces like your living room, where all kinds of things, from toys to clothes and blankets, tend to accumulate.

For example, we love this Lift Top Coffee Table Desk with Storage. This piece does so much for your living space. Not only does it offer the storage you want, with its open shelf and secret compartment beneath the lift top, it can also be used as a computer desk when the top is lifted. It’s perfect to stash supplies and accessories you want to keep out of sight, plus works as a stylish centerpiece for your living room. What’s not to love?

8. Buy durable and stylish storage furniture

Bush Home is your guide to a more beautiful and organized home. Shop storage solutions by space, including garage storage, laundry storage, and multi-purpose storage cabinets that would fit seamlessly in any room. Our furniture is crafted with care and built to last, so you can keep you and your family organized in a home that reflects your lifestyle.