A new baby can transform many aspects of your life, and you will need to navigate sleepless nights, feeds and nap routines, amongst many other things. One thing that many new parents discover is how much stuff a baby needs, and it quickly becomes clear that we never have enough space for it.
So, if you’re currently looking for ways to organise your home before the baby arrives the team at Loxleys Self Storage have put together some tips and tricks for must-know storage solutions to ensure your home is in order for the big day.
Changing spaces
Everyone will tell you that you need a changing table for your baby, but these can take up an awful lot of space. Instead, try investing in a large dresser that you can fix a changing mat to the top of.
You can still keep all the essential bits and pieces such as nappies and wipes in one of the drawers, but you can make use of all the other drawers for the essential storage that you are going to need. Once your baby is past the nappy stage, you can then remove the changing mat and make use of the dresser in other ways.
Make use of a self storage unit
Your little bundle of joy will need its own room at some point, and so you need to clear quite a lot of space. Very few of us have a nursery ready to go before we start having children, so you will need to take a room in the house and transform it. Not only do you need to decide on paint colours and cute designs, but also where you are going to keep all the things that used to be in the room.
A self storage unit is the perfect solution when it comes to creating more space in your home. These are easily accessed 24 hours a day, completely secure and protected from damp, insects and other elements to ensure your items can be kept safe and protected until you need them.
This gives you the flexibility to sort through things at your own pace rather than while you are waiting for the baby’s arrival, you can bring back individual items when you are ready or keep them for nostalgia and show them to your baby once they become a teenager.
Add other furniture to your baby’s wardrobe
When decorating a nursery, you have probably added a wardrobe to the shopping list. However, it is only once you have hung the tiny baby clothes on the rail that you realise how much wasted space there is inside a wardrobe for a human no bigger than a foot long.
This is a great opportunity to fill the bottom of your wardrobe with another set of drawers or other type of storage. It’s a great way to make use of all that available space, and it remains tucked away out of sight.
Add storage under your cot
The space underneath a cot is another spot that can go overlooked when it comes to storage opportunities. The gap beneath the floor and the place where your baby sleeps is a great place to add storage containers, drawers or boxes that you can fill with toys, books or other essentials. Again, this can help to keep many items out of sight, but still make use of every inch of available storage space.
Considering how tiny they are, babies can take up a lot of space, so it is important that you look into as many storage opportunities within your home or outside of it, as possible. Try to make use of flexible options that can change as your baby grows to ensure you are always making the most of what you have available.
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