Are you looking to increase the amount of storage in your kitchen or bathroom? A home remodel is an excellent time to enhance the aesthetics of your space and its functionality, especially when it comes to optimizing storage. A clutter-free room always looks more attractive, spacious, and inviting.
We’ve collected some of our favorite kitchen and bathroom storage solutions that are ideal for your SWFL home remodel.
Design Storage to Fit Your Needs Before You Start Your Remodel
Storage can be a forgotten element in home remodeling. It’s easy to focus on the aesthetics of a new interior while forgetting about the space needed to store belongings. The result is extra clutter and poor organization, which can have a detrimental effect on the living area’s appearance.
Whether planning a new kitchen design or a bathroom remodel, keeping your storage needs in mind during the planning process will ensure you enjoy the best of both form and function.
Before designing, consider what you need to store away in each room. Think about how you use the space on a daily basis and identify potential problem areas. Your skilled design-build team will be able to use this information to help you with innovative home storage ideas for any type and size of room.
Storage Design Solutions for Your Kitchen
Optimizing kitchen storage is critical to ensuring the heart of your home remains functional and safe. From creative cabinet solutions and island storage to appliance garages and walk-in pantries, here are some ways to enhance your kitchen’s efficiency and style.
Creative Cabinet Solutions
Making good use of cabinets is important. Extend cabinets vertically and horizontally to maximize wall space, which can be especially beneficial in smaller interiors.
To boost storage organization, incorporate custom drawers and inserts where possible. These custom features can include hidden trash and recycling bins, flatware trays, knife racks, cutting board slots, baking tray organizers, K-cup organizers, spice drawers, and bread baskets.
Add tiered or hidden drawers for additional storage and accessibility. Pull-out cabinets can also eliminate the need to reach and dig for items, which can be essentially beneficial if members of your household have mobility issues.
Island Storage Solutions
Kitchen islands offer various benefits for modern kitchens. They naturally anchor the space and provide additional work surfaces, dining options, and storage features. When designing or choosing an island, think about how you’ll use the space and what you need close to hand.
Consider incorporating features like built-in shelves or cabinets. To enhance its utility, integrate functionalities such as a sink, breakfast bar, and pull-out drawers.
Features such as deep drawers for pots and pans or built-in wine racks will further optimize the island’s capacity, depending on your lifestyle and cooking habits.
Appliance Garages
The more appliances you have, the more cluttered a kitchen can look, especially with excess cables. Appliance garages are a great way to keep essential appliances neatly tucked away and out of sight.
There are different types of appliance storage options. Pull-out trays or lift-up doors can house heavier appliances like mixers, blenders, and coffee makers. Smaller options include drawers for smartphones, tablets, and other handheld devices.
You can customize these hidden storage spaces to fit your kitchen’s design while seamlessly blending with your cabinetry.
Walk-In Pantries
Walk-in pantries provide an elegant appeal to home kitchens and echo the pantries of the past that were prevalent features of wealthy households. Today, they provide ample space to store non-perishable food items, small appliances, and bulk supplies.
When designing your pantry’s storage, consider how shelving can be tailored to fit your specific needs. Adjustable shelves, pull-out baskets, and built-in racks are all potential options.
A well-designed walk-in pantry keeps everything easily accessible and neatly arranged in a separate but adjoining space, thereby reducing kitchen clutter and improving efficiency.
Storage Design Solutions for Your Bathroom
The last thing you want when trying to relax in a nice hot bath or shower is a dangerously cluttered bathroom. Enhancing bathroom storage is crucial to maintaining a safe, relaxing, and organized space. Here are some ways to achieve this.
Choose the Right Vanity
Selecting the right vanity is essential for maximizing bathroom storage. A closed furniture-style vanity offers more storage options than an open-style vanity.
Consider using the space beneath your sink with stackable bins, sliding drawers, or pull-out trays to neatly organize cleaning supplies and toiletries. You can also convert false drawers into tip-out trays or add a toe kick drawer for extra storage.
These vanity options will help you use every inch of available space while maintaining a stylish aesthetic.
Medicine Cabinet with Built-In Lighting
Upgrade your bathroom with a medicine cabinet featuring built-in LED lighting for enhanced visibility. Options with adjustable shelves within the cabinet allow you to customize storage space for toiletries, medications, and grooming supplies.
The right design will match seamlessly with your design scheme and add a touch of functional luxury to your bathroom interior.
Don’t Forget the Walls
Like with kitchens, the walls of your bathroom provide plenty of creative opportunities to maximize storage area. For example, installing floating shelves above the toilet or beside a vanity can increase storage potential while enhancing the interior’s overall look.
Built-in shelving offers practical storage space for towels and toiletries, while ladder shelving, along with open shelving, can add a stylish touch for more visually appealing items.
Towel racks with hooks save space and provide easy access to towels and robes. Wall-mounted options like makeup mirrors and faucets further optimize the space, enhancing functionality and the bathroom’s overall charm.
Shower Niches, Shower Shelves and Benches
You can also optimize the shower area of your bathroom for storage. Consider built-in shower niches, shelves, and benches, where essential items can be stored close to hand.
Shower niches provide a sleek solution for storing shampoo, conditioner, and cleaning items. Small shelves offer additional space for items like razors and soaps.
Integrating a shower bench for comfort and accessibility also provides the extra benefit of more storage. The bench can be inside or outside the shower and even designed to be part in and part out of the cubicle.
Your trusted design-build team will help you with the best kitchen and bathroom storage ideas for your next remodeling project.
Luxury Home Remodeling in Southwest Florida
Progressive is an award-winning design-build luxury remodeling firm founded in 1989 that serves Southwest Florida. Whether you’re looking to enhance a kitchen or bathroom – or create a new one – we’re the team that can get the job done.
Progressive Design Build is a trusted expert in custom home remodeling, from kitchens and bathrooms to whole houses, condos, and outdoor living projects. You can rely on our seamless processes, advanced technology, and exceptional customer service to deliver on-time and on-budget results.
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