5 Furniture Tips To Optimise Space In Your Home

We all need space in our homes to walk around. We all need the necessary furniture for utility as well. A good home is the correct balance between both.

Many urban homes require a work station as much as everything else as a part of the décor these days, thanks to the crazy work schedules of city professionals. This also means extra space dedicated to office gear either in the hall or in the bedrooms of urban homes. This is just one example. As spaces in cities shrink and homes get smaller, there is often plenty to fit within 500 sq. ft. apartments in India.

Here are a few pieces of furniture that would help you stock whatever you need in your flat without taking too much space:

1. Bed-cum-desk:  A few resourceful home-makers have hit upon the idea of combining a bed with a desk. With the advent of laptops, the extra space that needs to be dedicated to a personal computer and its extras have gone away. This means, all you need is a little space to place it at the right height from the chair. There are a few designers who have designed bunk beds over the working desk for the workaholics. This is ideal for single working professionals in the city.

2. Desk drawers: If you prefer a large and comfortable home and often need to work from home, a good option is to install a desk table from the wall. After you are done with work, it can fit right up on the wall, and not take up extra space when not required. All you have to do is to ensure that a good source of light is placed right above this makeshift work station so that you don't need a table lamp.

3. Sofa & shelves: There is never enough storage space. Be it small cushions or other furnishing items, a number of home decoration items take up as much space as clothes in a home. It is very important to make space for them. A few home-makers ensure that their sofas have storage spaces that let them pack away a number of things. Stylishly building customized cabinets all over walls is another method of making space in a home. This can save you the money of buying expensive wall racks and save space too.  

4. Sofa-cum-double bed: This is the most popular furniture item in almost every urban home to make space for friends who like to stay over after a late night party at your flat. Those, who reject this unit of furniture, are home-makers who worry that the sofa-cum-bed might ruin the look of the interiors. However, a few new options such as adjustable futons work as fashionable alternatives. 

5. Kitchen cabinets: Kitchen has the maximum amount of stuff, be it pots and pans or groceries that is needed on a daily basis. Instead of making space for them on the kitchen platform, you should store them away in easily accessible cabinets. One way is to have a built-in dining area that has storage underneath. While many american homes have such designs that often fits either the dishwasher or the oven, Indian modular kitchens can use them to store innumerable kadhais and pans usually needed for cooking.