3 tips for easily creating more space in your home

Do you need more space in your home? Are you planning to create a nursery, renovate your home, or is your house overflowing with belongings? Or do you simply want more living space? This blog discusses three ways to create more space at home and keep it that way.

1. Get an overview of all your belongings

Keeping track of your belongings is an important rule when you want to create more space in your home. If you do not know exactly what you own, regularly lose things, or have an overflowing wardrobe, you cannot fully enjoy your belongings or your living space. After all, more space in your home also creates more peace of mind.

You only use 80% of the items in your cupboards once a year, meaning they take up a lot of unnecessary space. A good solution is to store these items in an affordable storage unit. To tackle this efficiently, you can divide your belongings into three groups:

• Items you use regularly and therefore need to keep within easy reach
• Items you can throw away
• Items you want to keep but do not need very often

The last group can easily be placed in an external storage unit. A useful storage calculator can help you determine how much space you need. Storage units are available from as little as 1 m³, so you do not need to rent a huge space just to store a few belongings. One cubic metre can already hold the contents of approximately 20 moving boxes.

This gives you more room for the items you use every day, allowing you to enjoy both your belongings and your living space again.

2. Store your belongings in the cloud

Do you need extra space but do not want to rent a storage unit? mrBOX can help. mrBOX is your cupboard in the cloud:

• mrBOX delivers empty boxes to your home
• You fill them with items you rarely use
• mrBOX collects and stores the boxes
• Whenever you need them, mrBOX delivers them back to you

A convenient app shows you exactly what you have stored and where it is, so you never lose track of your belongings. You can also store larger individual items with mrBOX, such as a bicycle or snowboard.

3. Share with others: social sharing

There is another way to create extra space: instead of buying every item you only need occasionally, consider borrowing it.

With an app such as Peerby, you can borrow items from people in your neighbourhood and make your own belongings available to others. For example, when you need a jigsaw or pressure washer, do not immediately buy one. First check Peerby to see whether someone nearby has one you can borrow.

Peerby displays available items within a 30-minute travel distance, making it easy to borrow what you need while saving space at home.

With the tips above, you can create extra space in your home in no time. Enjoy it!