Storage solutions for an office and more?

[Becky]

In my home, I have just one closet. And it is filled with our clothes, some shoes and blankets, no more extra room at all in there. And I only have 2 bedrooms. So one of the rooms is my office and junk room. I hate it!

I have reorganized and changed it around a million times. On one wall, I had my husband build me an entire length from celing to floor of shelves. On them are all our tshirts, misc items, and shoes. I covered it with curtains to hide all the clutter. In this room I also have my computer and all the assesories that goes with it, all my scarpbooking items, picture albums, vacuums, (yes, mulitple vacuums. LOL) coats, purses and it seems a million other items I must have on hand.

I have a bookshelf, a desk, a hutch type thing and a chest type thing. I need serious help on how to organize it! Any suggestions? Any good storage solutions? If anyone is interested, i will post pictures of the entire room.

Thanks for any advice or suggestions.

[Tumbleweed]

I can't think of anything off-hand so seeing a picture may help. So please do post a pic.

BTW: I have one room in my basement that is crying out for help. I'm sort of ignoring it's pleas.

[Becky]

I took all the pictures, but fogot to upload them to my pc. I will do that this week. Thanks for the reply.

[Tumbleweed]

Do you utilize the area under your bed? I know some peoples beds are too low to the floor to get much of anything under them but I also know people who have put their beds on bricks or blocks of wood to raise them up and then shove containers under them. If you have a long dust ruffle no one will ever know. Also if you have high ceilings I have seen people who have used tall storage shelves on either side of the room (I'm talking small rooms like 12 x 12) and then put long planks across the top and put storage above the head. You can still walk under it so you still have the space. But you need pretty high ceilings for that and it isn't exactly pretty.

I actually used this idea in my basement storage area but a bit more differently so this wouldn't work in your spare bedroom but I used two utility shelves and spaced them about 6 foot apart and then bought cheap planks spanning the gap between the shelves and this made huge shelves. Hard to explain but instead of 2 -ulitity shelves that had 4 shelves each ( about a foot deep and 4 foot length.) I ended up with 6x4 foot area (instead of 1x4 & 1x4) on each each shelf. Made for tons of storage but still I don't have enough storage down there. I just need to park a truck by my house and start loading thing to take to Goodwill or the Salvation Army. It is stupid to store things I never use. Anyway, I'm rambling and this doesn't help you at all in your situtions.

Maybe I'll get an idea if I see the room.