Your student house can quickly become a bit messy if you let it. Especially when you first move into a new student home it’s important to get to organising things immediately, finding space for all your belongings, creating a calm, dedicated study space, and ensuring that your home is relaxing and gives you the space to recharge your batteries after a long day at university. Let’s find out how to save space in your student house!
One way to get organised is to do a big sort out, putting some of your items into storage units for students, clearing enough space in your student home for the upcoming year without losing items that hold sentimental value to you.
Work out your essentials to save space in your student house
In most cases, your student room won’t be the biggest. Even if it is sizeable, the chances are that you’ll have too much stuff to comfortably keep everything with you through the course of your stay. There is no way you can use communal areas to store your belongings either, so the first thing you need to do is to put together a list of essentials.
You’ll need to take clothes for the year ahead, both winter and summer clothes, toiletries, bedding, towels, and other essentials. You might also have space for prints and posters on the walls, your laptop and study materials and other things for university. Depending on your situation and where you’re coming from you might also have pieces of furniture, electrical items, and other belongings that you must take with you but that there might not be room for.
Organising your student house
Once you have this definitive list of items that you definitely need, and the belongings that you have with you but might not fit, you can begin to design and organise your student house and bedroom.
There are different ways you can get organised once you have this essential list.
Make the most of your wardrobe
It’s really hard to figure out what clothes to leave behind. So much so, that many students turn up to their student digs with seemingly too many clothes to fit in the wardrobes. Instead of just opening the doors and throwing everything in a big pile, think about how you can maximise the wardrobe space. Hang dresses, blouses, trousers, jackets, skirts, scarves, and any coats.
For jeans, t-shirts, and knitwear you should always fold them and either place them on the inner shelves of the wardrobe or another storage option you might have. There are hanging organisers that you can buy to fit within your wardrobe that can be used for towels, bedding, and other items too, maximising the space available to you.
You could fold things like jeans and winter jumpers/sweatshirts that take up a lot of space, and pack these into a storage box at the bottom of your wardrobe.
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A clean workspace
Your study area is very important when you are a student. It is vital that you make sure you have a desk that is uncluttered and becomes a dedicated space for you to study and revise throughout the year. A clear desk will help you keep a clear mind and have the perfect foundation from which to study and work hard. Hide any charging wires and other electrical wires through a shoebox, which can then be used as a home to store paper, notebooks, and other flat items on top. Use desk organisers to keep your study items separate from personal items and easily identifiable and simple to find. Use a discarded jam jar as a pen holder – this also gives you a blank slate to colour and jazz up a bit.
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Over door hangers to save space in your student house
Having access to hangers over the top of doors makes a big difference when you are organising within a short space. In the bathroom over the door hooks are great to hang towels on, whilst they can also be used for coats, for wash bags, and a whole host of other items that you use every day, but you’ve got limited space to store. One of the best design and organising tips for over the door hangers is to buy shoe storage sets that hang off the back of the door and can hold quite a few different shoes in them. You’d be amazed how much space this saves on the floor!
Storage units for students
Once you’ve organised as best you can, put every item away in your student bedroom nice and snug, there may still be a few things left over. There might also be some items that were never meant for your student home, but you need/want to keep them for the future (think furniture, sentimental personal belongings etc.). In these situations, there is an answer to be found in storage units for students. A secure storage unit close to your student home or back home with your parents, is the perfect solution to help safely store the personal items you don’t have room for in your new student home.
As you can see, there are some amazing design and organising options to keep your student home and room tidy and functionally, without losing the warmth that you need to make it your home. Whether it’s underbed storage, a designated desk storage, and hooks for over the back of doors, there are clever ways to organise your student home and bedroom, making it a pleasant place to be. For everything else, storage units are a cost-effective way to keep things safe and out of sight for the next year or so whilst you are studying.
Once all the clutter has cleared, this will give you space to decorate with ornaments, plants, posters, lights, and bring life to your room! You could even add colourful pillows, rugs, throws and patterned bed sheets!
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