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15 Best Narrow Cabinets - Slim Cabinets for Small-Space Storage
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by Caroline Biggs
updated May 27, 2020
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Whether you deeply despise organizing your home, or love finding a place for absolutely everything, everyone can agree that the final result always feels better than what you started with. But not all organization feats are equal, and some spaces are much more difficult to sort than others.
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Yes, it’s obvious that small spaces typically have less storage, but it doesn’t mean larger homes don’t have the same problem. Odd little nooks and crannies seem to pop up everywhere, like the space by your toilet, areas between shelves in your closet, or a gap next to your couch. While they all might seem like befuddling storage dilemmas, they’re places where you can really get creative with how you arrange things. One of the best ways to tackle this? Incorporating narrow cabinets and other slim forms of organization, which can look just as slick as the furniture around them. It’s just a matter of finding the right fit—stylistically and physically.
Below, we’ve rounded up products like cabinets, shelves, and ledges that’ll accommodate your smallest spaces perfectly.
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1. Display Your Books With a Narrow Shelf
Bookworms alike dream of having their very own library, but if your home is currently a bit more on the cozier side, a small cabinet can help accommodate a smaller portion of your book collection and keep it from spilling onto the floor. This modern, minimal version from Wayfair gives you enough space to organize without taking up too much space itself.
Buy: George Oliver Jaimes 1 Door Accent Cabinet, $146.
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2. Maximize Storage for Linens and Textiles
Not every space is blessed with a large linen closet—or any closet for that matter. A narrow cabinet, such as this wooden one from Walmart, removes towels and sheets from precious shelf space and keeps them tucked away in their own designated area.
Buy: Kyoto Double Linen Cabinet, $141.97 from Walmart
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3. Keep Not-So-Stylish Items Hidden Away
Not everything can be a testament to your eye for style. Cooking utensils, spices, tools, and other odds and ends need a space too, just preferably not out in the open. A narrow “pantry,” like this one from Hammacher Schlemmer, is only four inches wide and is perfect for those awkward little areas in your kitchen or for small cooking spaces that can’t fit a pantry.
Buy: The Tight Space Kitchen Pantry, $129.
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4. Separate and Organize Garments
We’re not sure what it is about socks and underwear, but they always get lost somewhere between the hamper and dryer. If they do happen to survive, they somehow never end up back in their designated spot. Narrow organization drawers, like this find from Target, can contain the clothing items that get tossed about from drawer to floor.
Buy: mDesign Vertical Dresser Storage Tower with 4 Drawers, $49.99 from Target
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5. Beef Up Bathroom Storage
Behold proof that the area by your toilet can look cool. This sleek, narrow cabinet from Bloomingdale’s looks updated and modern, but also has wheels for easy access and refills. This is an ideal workaround for spaces that can’t squeeze in a full-size cabinet or shelf for storing cleaning products and extra rolls of toilet paper.
Buy: Yamazaki Tower Rolling Slim Bathroom Cart, $120 from Bloomingdale’s
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6. Invest in a Storage Tower
Turn even the tiniest bit of spare room in your kitchen or bathroom into a storage-savvy display with a compact pull-out drawer cabinet. This slim tower from The Container Store is small enough to squeeze between your toilet and sink, but offers enough storage room for all your cosmetics and beauty supplies.
Buy: Like-it White Slim Tower, $75.95 from The Container Store
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7. Consider Picture Ledges
Slim, sleek, and super easy to install, wall-mounted picture ledges—like MOSSLANDA ledges from IKEA—provide just enough room to store tiny cosmetics and toiletries (like nail polish and perfume) and are small enough to fit anywhere in your bathroom.
You can even install them on the wall, then push your furniture up to them to create sneaky slim shelves inside vertical gaps, like IKEA has done in this kitchen above.
Buy: MOSSLANDA Picture Ledge, White, $9.99 from IKEA
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8. Narrow Floating Wall Storage
In dire need of some bedside storage, but hardly have the room for a nightstand? The LACK wall shelf unit from IKEA fits nicely next to your bed and offers way more storage potential than a bulky single-drawer nightstand.
Buy: LACK Wall Shelf Unit, $59.99 from IKEA
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9. Find a Slim Side Table With Hidden Storage
Looking for an affordable way to score more living room storage? The web is filled with sleek, and more importantly, insanely slim side tables with built-in storage—like this flip-top end table with a shelf as seen on Hayneedle—that’ll fit perfectly between two sofas.
Buy: Convenience Concepts American Heritage Rectangle Wood End Table with Flip Top and Shelf, $111.12 from Hayneedle
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10. Score a Door Storage Cabinet
Why carve out a little bit of storage room behind the door when you can install a whole darn storage cabinet? This storage cabinet from Amazon attaches directly to your door’s hinges and offers eight whopping shelves of storage space.
Buy: Cabidor Classic Behind The Door Storage Cabinet, $148.99 from Amazon
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11. Discover Pull-Out Solutions
The KOMPLEMENT hanger from IKEA is designed for just this kind of dilemma. install it so it stays tucked next to your hanging clothes in the closet, or contort yourself to install one in a tiny, vertical space in the kitchen or bathroom, like IKEA has done in this kitchen.
Buy: KOMPLEMENT White, Multi-Use Hanger, $6.
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12. Get Accustomed to a Basket Rolling Cart
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13. Buy a Clutterbuster
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14. Employ a Floating Bookcase
Believe it or not, the tiny sliver of wall space between your door and wall can actually offer some serious storage potential. Follow in the good folks at Darn Crafty’s footsteps and install a slender floating bookcase (or three) in a cramped corner to earn some extra storage.
Buy: GNEDBY Shelf Unit, $60 from IKEA
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15. Get Magnetized
Magnetic spice racks and knife holders can essentially be installed anywhere—think: the side of your fridge or cabinet or in the small wall space between your oven hood and stove—for a bit of unanticipated storage opportunity and easy access to your kitchen supplies.
Buy: Modular Magnetic Walnut Spice Rack, $42 to $58 from Food52
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15 Practical Storage Ideas Without Bulky Wardrobes
There are many storage systems that are more convenient and functional than large wardrobes and wardrobes.
Such systems offer a practical space for clothes and other useful things, and they also look more original and beautiful than the usual closet, emphasizing the decorative qualities of the room.
Today we're going to talk about 15 ways to keep things in order that will free up the room and even decorate it. Choose what suits your taste.
1. Hanging shelves
Wall shelves help keep essentials visible without taking up too much space. And in small rooms, they can be hung in length to save space even more. The main advantage of such shelves is that they are open, and this visually makes the room freer.
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2. Shelving
A more organized wall shelving option is a single shelving unit or shelving composition. They can also be placed not along the wall, but across - this will help in zoning a large room and allocate a lot of storage space. Open shelving has a positive effect on the visual expansion of space.
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3. Small pedestals
Several compact pedestals placed throughout the area will be a more practical option than a one-piece wardrobe up to the ceiling. In addition, their surface can be used functionally: put a lamp on one bedside table, and a TV on another. For small rooms, it is better to choose long narrow cabinets to use the width of the walls and not compress the room.
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4. Suspension rods
Do not forget about the ceiling. You can hang long rods for hangers with clothes on it. Moreover, anything can serve as such a barbell: a plastic or steel pipe or even a tree branch, as in the photo below. Any handmade arrangement of storage systems is always welcome - this will help diversify the interior and make it more individual.
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5. Racks on wheels
Universal wardrobe solution with a bar and several rows of shelves.
This rack will help keep all the necessary wardrobe at hand. And it takes up much less space than a bulky closet with doors. And the stand is mobile thanks to the wheels - you can always move it to a more convenient place.
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6. Bed with drawers
An ideal option for a bedroom is to get a bed with internal compartments for clothes, linens and other things. This eliminates the need to organize additional storage, and also makes the bed as functional as possible.
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7. Poufs with internal compartments
Not enough space in your nightstand or under your bed? Place a pouffe or banquette next to it with a box hidden under the seat. If the room is small, it is better to replace everything with such ottomans, even the most beautiful and original chairs, in order to increase the functionality of the furniture.
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8. Boxes, boxes, baskets
Open racks and shelves are not universal - some things still need to be kept hidden from view. This will help cardboard or plastic boxes, wicker baskets, wooden boxes and other similar containers. They can be mounted on open shelves: such a solution will be much more economical than using a cabinet. Drawers can be selected in different shades to add color and bright accents to the room.
Photo: blogdecorandoonline.com
9. Hollow Podium
Raise the floor in part of the room and you have a practical podium, under which you can organize many compartments for things. And along with this, if we are talking about a studio, you will get a zoning of the sleeping area from the rest of the room - with a workplace or a kitchen. If the podium is quite large, no cabinets or even shelves will be needed. However, such a storage system should be designed at the design development stages of the project.
Photo: enterpriseymca.org
10. Hanging organizers
Fabric organizers that can be hung on a bar or on a door are useful for storing shoes and small items of clothing. You can place them both in the hallway and in living rooms, the main thing is to choose the right size and color scheme.
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11. Sliding rack
Side tables with drawers can be accompanied by a vertical sliding rack. It is very convenient to use it for storing books, but hangers with clothes can also be placed there. The main advantage of a pull-out rack is its narrow design, which will take up minimal space in the room.
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12. Lean ladder
A ladder with wide steps is a more decorative version of a regular shelving unit. It has a narrower and more compact design, so it is suitable for very small spaces, such as a bathroom or hallway.
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13. Niches in the wall
Instead of a built-in wardrobe, you can simply organize a deep niche in the wall with rods and hangers and place clothes there. An open recess without doors will visually expand the room.
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14. Behind the curtain
All open shelves, racks and niches can be closed - but not with cabinet doors, but with a curtain to the floor. This solution has many advantages. Firstly, a long curtain raises the ceiling and makes the room wider. Secondly, the fabric creates a more comfortable home environment. Thirdly, you can choose any color of the curtains, making the interior brighter.
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15. Decorative storage systems
This includes any antique decor: worn suitcases, large wicker or wooden chests and so on. With them, the usual storage of things will also turn into an interior decoration. 9Inmyroom storage systems that will save square meters
A small apartment is a constant search for new storage options and an eternal choice between beautiful and functional.
However, the aerobatics of organizing the space of a small-sized apartment is to create the most convenient, practical interior, to fit everything you need on a meager area and at the same time not to clutter it with unnecessary pieces of furniture. In our struggle for precious meters, and even centimeters of usable space, original solutions and ideas of designers who know a lot about functional furniture come to the rescue.
About the most interesting systems and variants storage in a confined space, the art director told us architectural bureau "Pobeda Design" Stepan Bugaev.
Stepan Bugaev started his professional path from the MIPT diploma. In 2007 he graduated from the State University Higher School of Economics with a master's degree business informatics. Worked in the company "Internet House", participated in project to create a "smart home" system based on Z-Wave technology. FROM 2011 - co-founder and art director of the architectural bureau Pobeda Design.
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Embedded and hidden systems storage In small apartments, every centimeter of usable space counts, so it is so necessary to correctly place storage systems in them. In a small area, you should not make open mezzanines and install massive, free-standing cabinets: if possible, all storage spaces should be built-in or hidden.
A good solution is glossy, mirrored doors that reflect light and visually enlarge the space of a small room. In addition, they will make the interior lighter, which is also important for rooms of a modest size. As for equipping the built-in wardrobe, here you need to think over the storage system: various rods, hangers and shelves that can be lowered will greatly simplify access to them. And built-in wardrobes are convenient because they allow you to use the entire space from floor to ceiling to the maximum.
2. Furniture-transformer
A great idea for a small apartment - modern and comfortable furniture-transformer. It is compact, functional and saves your precious square meters.
There are many varieties of such furniture, and the most popular of them is a bed that can be put away in a closet.
This solution avoids many problems. For example, thanks to transforming furniture, you can place in the living room-bedroom not just a folding sofa, but a full bed. During the day, it is easy to put it away in a closet, freeing up space in the room, or it turns into a cozy sofa.
3. Chair-shelf
There are several options for such a multifunctional piece of furniture as a chair-shelf. Usually the storage system is located under the seat - very convenient when you have a whole mini-library at hand. And the Korean designer Seung-Yong Song developed a special design: in his version, the storage system is located in the original high back of the chair.
Two models of chairs by him combine a shelf system and a traditional seating position. This design looks very light, perfectly balanced and can withstand significant loads. In addition, in a small indoors, such a chair can divide the space into functional areas, which better than any barriers.
4. Library Chair
Another multitasking furniture option for a small apartment or minimalist interior is the library chair. It is slightly less functional than a shelf chair and takes up more place, but it does its job well.
For example, the Bibliochaise has an original and compact storage system books, CDs, guidebooks and magazines - these are the shelves that make up chair frame. The model is available in several colors, so you can easily choose exactly the option that will fit into the range of your interior.
5. Wardrobe on the ceiling
In a small apartment, as a rule, the kitchen does not have a large area. Therefore, it is so important to make full use of the space of a modest size, carefully considering the storage systems and placement of kitchen cabinets. One of the best options is to fix cabinets and shelving on the ceiling.
Thanks to this solution, you can place a complete kitchen headset in the middle of the room and fix additional cabinets on the ceiling.
