Nine charming storage ideas that keep your home in order

The best storage furniture helps you organize every room while pleasing the eye as well. You can highlight your favorite treasures, hide things behind doors, or hang them casually. Discover a variety of functional storage pieces and find the perfect place for everything!

Updated on 15 January, 2024

Natural nuances

Warm Nordic’s Be My Guest sideboard is like a jewel in a room: it oozes warmth and a vintage-inspired atmosphere, and plenty of treasures can be hidden behind its rattan-braided doors. The surface of each sideboard is unique, which makes rattan an attractive material. The black clear-lined metal frame and glass shelf complete the light appearance, and the oak-veneered top offers a spot for your favorite decorative objects or a house plant.

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Practical storage bench

The most practical and convenient furniture in the home plays many roles: Maze's contemporary Frank storage bench hides even larger objects and inconspicuously creates an additional storage unit in a hallway or bedroom, for example. The minimalist bench is dominated by perforated, black-painted metal and appealing soft leather.

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Multi-purpose plywood

Multi-purpose storage boxes hide small items inventively and allow boxes to appear as part of the interior. Klaus and Elina Aalto were inspired by the Baltic plywood suitcases: the simple, yet beautiful the Vakka box was born. The Vakka container, made of compressed plywood, gives you countless possibilities for the display, and several boxes can be used to assemble a night or side table. Alternatively, Vakka stores toys in the children's room.

• Iittala's Vakka box >
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For all spaces

When your home is lacking the fixed cabinet space, the storage space can be further expanded with movable cabinet solutions. Lundia's selections offer high-quality and adaptable storage furniture that is perfect for everyday use. The Scandinavian and minimalist Fuuga cabinet does not steal all the attention but soothes the overall look and adapts to all kinds of interior styles.

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A clever organizer

Are your small essentials always lost? Everything has its place in the Vitra Uten Silo storage unit. Whether in an office, a hallway, or a children’s room, the small lockers and hooks of this storage solution take care of your most important items. Designed by Dorothee Becker in 1970, the Uten Silo also serves as a unique piece of art on the wall.

• Vitra's Uten Silo II >
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Let it show

Not all the storage furniture is meant to be hidden – it can also be used to display your favorite items. The multipurpose and light String shelving system is a real classic that answers countless needs and expands from a small shelf to a wall-wide storage unit. The string shelves can be combined with lockers, cabinets, chests, or desks, and it stores books, clothes, and small items.

• String Furniture's String metal shelf >
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A hook for the easy display

Hooks and hangers keep the everyday items nearby. Normann Copenhagen’s Curve hooks charm with their simplicity and curved shapes. The soft hooks of different colors can be combined, but they also decorate the wall individually. The hook serves as a small storage helper for the kitchen utensils, bathroom towels, or jackets in the hallway.

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Build your own

When the storage furniture is required to be versatile and flexible, Audo Copenhagen's Frame shelf modules are the right choice! The Frame shelving system consists of boxes of different sizes that can be stacked into countless forms either on the wall, table, or floor. The Frame unit fits into any room and the black frame creates a contrast to the interior.

• Audo Copenhagen Frame 49 box >
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Renew the dressing area

Made of oak wood, the Töjbox rack offers help in the spring-cleaning and displaying your wardrobe in a new way – hang your daily outfits conveniently in the bedroom or arrange your coats and jackets in the hallway. The charm of the Töjbox lies in its traditional wooden joinery technique, which doesn't require any screw or glue. Besides, the rack does not need to be mounted, as it rests firmly against the wall, so it is effortless to move from one place to another. 

• Woud's Töjbox coat rack >
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See also:

• All storage furniture at Finnish Design Shop >
• All small storage at Finnish Design Shop >

Text: Sarianna Määttänen Images: Manufacturers

Published on 8 Mar, 2021