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Preserve the lightOne constant conundrum with non-open-plan living is how to preserve that lovely sense of flowing light. If you’re not careful, once you introduce walls and closed doors, you can be left with a series of dark, poky rooms. Broken-plan living offers a compromise. In this space, an open shelving unit allows light to filter through and helps to retain a sense of connectivity and flow between the adjacent rooms. A extra-wide door opening similarly adds to the broken-plan design.
Hunt for hidden depthsThink you have no more room for storage? Take a look around your home to see if you can find some untapped zones. This smart solution is a brilliant way to make a staircase multi-task – the bottom couple of treads have a shoe drawer hidden beneath them. If you’re considering an idea like this, make sure the drawers will be easy to shut safely by fitting them with recessed handles and soft-close catches. Check out brilliant boot rooms you could squeeze in almost anywhere
Clear the clutterFor a super-streamlined hallway, it can be worth the time and investment of building a coat and shoe cupboard into the wall with space for a hanging rail. The ideal depth for coat hangers is 60cm, but if you don’t have the space, try alternative ideas instead. You could fix a forward-facing rail to the back panel that can be pulled out to access coats more easily. Or use hooks to hang the coats, as they’ve done here. A good solution is to combine hangers and hooks – store the coats you use less often on the hangers and save the hooks for garments you need to grab quickly. Take a look for more brilliantly organised ways to sort your coat storage
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