The Best Tiny House Storage Hacks to Make the Most of a Small Space

Are you ready to build the tiny house of your dreams but are worried about storage space?

Maybe you have some hoarding habits you aren’t quite ready to give up. The good news is that tiny houses can have much more storage than what meets the eye if you get creative.

Here’s a complete guide to tiny house storage hacks and how they can help you.

What If I Don’t Have Enough Space?

Maybe you are set on switching to the tiny home lifestyle but know you have way too much stuff. The average U.S. household has an average of 300,000 items!

You might be thinking: “How can I fit 300,000 items into my tiny home!?”

But then you also have to think to yourself: “Do I actually use 300,000 items every day? Every week? Every month?”

The answer is probably no. So, while the average household may have that many items, you don’t actually use all of those consistently. Americans annually spend an average of $1.2 trillion on nonessential goods, so the truth is, you probably have things you don’t need. 

Take a mental look at the necessary items you need throughout your day or week. Those are the bare essentials that you should be taking with you to your tiny home.

Next to that, you can count in any memorabilia, books, and appliances. Only the essentials. 

If you think to yourself about what items you actually need versus what items you have, you’ll realize that tiny home living isn’t as impossible and intimidating as it may seem. If you can spot some things that you don’t actually need, then it’s time to throw them out. 

Okay, But What If I Still Don’t Have Enough Space?

We can all agree that everybody’s view of “essential” is different. Maybe you still have way too many things to fit into your tiny home.

Here are some simple hacks that can maximize tiny house space and give you the storage you need.

Under The Stair Storage

Why waste all the space under your stairs? In your tiny home, you can use your stairwell and turn the side of it into a closet!

You can make this your wardrobe closet, your book collection, your hair supplies, your junk room, etc. The possibilities are endless.

If you aren’t a fan of closets or cabinets, then you can turn your stair steps into pull-out drawers too. You can hide any clothes, supplies, snacks, or other items in the drawers of your stairs. When building a tiny house, take spots like these into consideration for how you can maximize storage.

Now you won’t have any excuses for leaving things lying around.

Under Your Seat Storage Solutions

Furthermore, you can utilize your seating for storage too. You can place drawer units under your tiny home couch or bed and add several more spots for storage.

Under your couch, you could make this a spot to keep your large movie or book collection. Maybe you can store a few extra kitchen appliances or your office supplies. 

Utilizing the storage under your furniture can give you the extra room you need for those items you can’t pass up.

What If I Still Need More Tiny House Storage?

So, maybe those under-compartment storage ideas work great, but you are still feeling cramped and like you don’t have enough room.

Here are some tiny house storage ideas that will let your tiny home feel more spacious and open. 

Hang Your Utensils

Some good kitchen storage ideas are to hang your utensils. Rather than placing your kitchen utensils and appliances on your counters, hang them instead. Placing them on surfaces just causes more clutter and chaos. 

You can place a hanging rack under your kitchen cabinet and hang your utensils and appliances from under the cabinet. Or, you can install a hanging rack on the ceiling of your tiny home and hang other essentials down as well. 

This will open up surface space a lot more and give you the illusion that there is more room.

Pull-Out Bed

If you don’t know how to fit both your bed and your sofa into your tiny home, make them the same!

Turn your couch into a pull-out sofa so you can utilize it in the daytime and at night too. You can push it back in during the day to maximize your space, and pull it out at night so you can have a restful sleep.

Having one place where you can hang out and where you can sleep will maximize your space much more and make you feel like you live in a bigger home. 

Open Cabinets

Instead of installing annoying doors on your cabinets, leave them open. This saves you the hassle of needing to open and close them constantly and will give your room the feeling of being more open and spacious.

Cabinet doors can be inconvenient in a smaller space when you need to open and close them. If you have a guest, they can easily make things more crowded or hit the person upon opening.

Make your life 10x easier by getting rid of cabinet doors. This will make it quicker when you need to grab something too because all you’ll need to do is take a quick glance and reach. 

Utilize Every Nook and Cranny

Corners make for great storage spaces, and they give off the illusion that you aren’t actually using up as much space as you are.

Install a few shelves in the corner of your bathroom to place your supplies. This will give you easy access to all your essentials while saving you space on an unneeded bulky cabinet. 

What If I Do Have Enough Space?

If you’ve finally decided that you think you can make tiny house storage work, then there’s no need to wait. Pack up your stuff and get your creative juices flowing. 

Contact us today to start building the tiny house of your dreams!