10 Places Beyond the Kitchen

When something in your home isn’t working, it’s easy to jump straight to the solution.

“I need more cabinets.”

“I need a bigger closet.”

“We need more storage.”

But at Harmony Home Concepts, we like to start somewhere else:

What’s frustrating you?

Maybe you’re constantly getting down on your knees to reach something.

Maybe things disappear in the back of deep cabinets.

Maybe you’re stacking and unstacking things every time you need something.

Or maybe you’ve simply run out of good places to put everything.

Don’t start with the product. Start with the problem.

You don’t need to know whether you need a pull-out shelf, drawer, custom cabinet, closet system, garage storage, or something completely different.

That’s what we’re here to help you figure out.

During a complimentary in-home design consultation, we’ll look at the spaces that frustrate you, talk about what you need to store, and help design a solution around your home and the way you live.

And sometimes the solution may be somewhere you hadn’t even considered.

Pull-Out Shelves Aren’t Just for Kitchens

Most people hear pull-out shelves and immediately picture pots, pans, and pantry items.

And they’re great for those things.

But the same idea that makes a kitchen cabinet easier to use can work throughout your home:

Bring what you’re storing to you instead of making you reach for it.

Bathrooms, laundry rooms, garages, home offices, craft areas, closets, and other spaces can have exactly the same problem as a deep kitchen cabinet—plenty of storage space that’s difficult to actually use.

Sometimes a pull-out shelf is the answer.

Sometimes it’s a drawer, custom cabinet, shelving system, closet organizer, or another custom storage solution.

Here are 10 places beyond the kitchen where better storage might make everyday life a little easier.

1. Bathroom Vanities

Take a look under your bathroom sink.

How much can you actually see?

Deep vanity cabinets quickly become a collection of hair dryers, curling irons, toiletries, cleaning supplies, extra shampoo, and everything else we use in the bathroom.

Pull-out shelves can bring those items forward so you don’t have to kneel down and reach around plumbing to find them.

And because every vanity is different, custom-designed storage can work around pipes and other obstacles rather than wasting that space.

2. Laundry Room Cabinets

Detergent. Dryer sheets. Stain remover. Cleaning products. Extra paper goods.

Laundry rooms can store a surprising amount of stuff.

The problem is that much of it ends up behind something else.

Pull-out storage can make deep lower cabinets easier to use, while custom cabinets and shelving can take advantage of other underused areas in the room.

The result?

A laundry room that feels less like a place where things accumulate and more like a space that actually works.

3. Garage Cabinets

Your garage may have some of the deepest—and most difficult-to-use—storage in your home.

Automotive supplies, gardening items, tools, cleaning products, sports equipment, and household supplies can easily disappear into large cabinets.

Depending on what you’re storing, pull-out shelves or drawers can make frequently used items much easier to access.

And if the entire garage is becoming frustrating, we can look beyond individual shelves and design a custom garage storage system around what you actually need to store.

4. Home Office Storage

Printers, paper, files, office supplies, electronics, cords…

It doesn’t take long for a home office cabinet to become the place where everything gets shoved when company is coming.

Pull-out shelves can make equipment and supplies stored inside lower cabinets much easier to reach.

Combine them with custom office cabinetry, shelving, or work surfaces, and you can create a workspace designed around the way you actually work.

5. Craft and Hobby Areas

If you have a hobby, you probably have supplies.

Lots of supplies.

Paints, fabrics, scrapbooking materials, sewing supplies, tools, photography equipment, or whatever else your hobby requires can quickly take over a cabinet or closet.

Pull-out shelves can help divide those supplies into accessible storage zones.

Instead of pulling out three boxes to get to the fourth one, you can bring the shelf toward you and see what you have.

6. Entertainment Centers and Media Cabinets

Media cabinets can fill up quickly with gaming systems, remotes, chargers, electronics, movies, and all those cords we’re never quite sure what to do with.

Pull-out storage can make equipment easier to access while helping keep everything contained and organized.

Custom cabinetry can take that idea even further by creating a dedicated place for the electronics and entertainment items your household actually uses.

7. Linen Storage

Sheets, blankets, towels, pillows, and extra toiletries have a way of getting pushed into deep shelves.

Then you need the set of sheets at the bottom.

You know what happens next.

Everything comes out.

Pull-out shelves, drawers, adjustable shelving, or a custom linen-storage solution can make it easier to separate and access what you need without disturbing everything else.

8. Mudrooms and Entryways

This is one area where a pull-out shelf might be part of the solution—but probably not the whole solution.

Shoes, backpacks, coats, hats, gloves, sports gear, and bags all need somewhere to go when you walk through the door.

A custom mudroom or hall tree can combine benches, hooks, cubbies, cabinets, drawers, and pull-out storage to give everyone a designated place for their things.

Instead of asking:

“Where should we put all this stuff?”

You already know.

9. Closets

Pull-out storage isn’t limited to cabinets.

Custom closet systems can incorporate drawers, baskets, shelves, shoe storage, accessories, and other features that bring items into view and make them easier to reach.

And that’s really the same idea behind pull-out shelves:

If you can see it and reach it, you’re much more likely to use it.

A well-designed closet isn’t necessarily about having more clothes.

It’s about making better use of the space you already have.

10. Almost Any Deep Cabinet That’s Driving You Crazy

This might be our favorite answer.

Wherever you’re constantly digging for something.

Walk through your home and pay attention.

Where do things disappear?

Where do you have to kneel?

Where do you unload the front to reach the back?

Where are you stacking things because you don’t have another option?

Where do you keep saying:

“There has to be a better way to organize this.”

What Area of Your Home Frustrates You Most?

Here’s a simple challenge.

Walk through your home and find the three places where storage frustrates you the most.

Don’t worry about figuring out how to fix them.

Just identify the problem. We’ll help with the solution.

Harmony Home Concepts designs custom pull-out shelves, closets, garage storage, pantry organization, laundry room storage, mudrooms, home offices, and other custom storage solutions for homeowners throughout Wichita and the surrounding communities.

Let’s Look at Your Home Together

Schedule your complimentary in-home design consultation with Harmony Home Concepts.

We’ll look at the spaces that aren’t working, listen to what’s frustrating you, and talk through ways we could make them better.

Your solution will be designed specifically for your home, your belongings, and the way you live.

You might call us thinking you need a few pull-out shelves.

You might discover there are several places throughout your home that could work a whole lot better.

Let’s look at your home together and find out.