Whether Pax, Billy or Lack – IKEA furniture has become an indispensable part of many German apartments. Especially in student apartments, the famous classics of the Swedish furniture store are often to be found. No wonder: The furniture is not only practical and inexpensive and offers neat storage space, but on top of that also chic!
With a bit of creativity, IKEA furniture and accessories can do a lot more. For example, the storage boxes from the PLUGGIS series can be used in a variety of ways:
1) Food
For every food there is a perfect place in the fridge. While the upper compartment should store mainly long-lasting foods, you should place dairy products in the middle compartment and meat and fish in the lower compartment. To make it a little easier for you, you can get hold of some storage boxes of different sizes and store the food in it and put it in the fridge.
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2) garbage
Waste separation made easy: To avoid wasting time sorting in front of the container or the bin, just place several boxes in a kitchen cupboard and separate the garbage when it accumulates. Now you just need to empty the corresponding box as soon as it is full. How to save a lot of work!
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3) odds and ends
Not only in your refrigerator can bring order with the practical boxes, the closet can also benefit. Let’s be honest: Behind most closet doors hides the pure chaos. However, if you always sort everything into the appropriate box, the problem is a thing of the past.
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4) Letterbox
In particular, shared apartments should be happy about the following tip: Label a few narrow storage boxes with the names of the roommates and mount them on the wall. So all letters can be assigned the same right!
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5) Make-up
Instead of putting your make-up utensils all over your bathroom, you can also put lipstick, eyeliners and brushes in small IKEA boxes that can be wonderfully attached to the wall.
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6) detergent
Also in the laundry room, you can attach various boxes to the wall and store all cleaners neat and tidy. For the practical boxes, there is simply a use in every room!
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7) Office
At IKEA there are even boxes that are big enough for a notebook or tablet. Really practical!
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8) Bathroom
In most bathrooms, shampoo and shower gel bottles are scattered throughout the room. In order to change that, the bathroom is equipped with storage boxes in different sizes – already there is order.
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9) clothes
Garments that you do not wear so often do not necessarily have to hang on a stirrup in the closet. To save space, you can also fold them up and store them in one or more boxes in a different location.
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10) Cable
Even the annoying cable salad you can with a storage box to master. To do this, drill a series of holes in the bottom of the box and insert the cables from the other side.
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Really fascinating, how versatile you can set up the apartment with such simple storage boxes! Maybe you can even use one or the other tip well – something you can always clean up, right? Have fun!