Planning A Big Home Renovation? Here Are 6 Ideas To Store Your Items When Renovating

Planning a big renovation project, and you’re not sure where to safely store all your goods? We have six ideas that can help you with that. Keep reading below to find out more!

We all know how messy home renovation can get. Or, if this is the first time remodeling your house, you’ll soon find out too.

It’s easy for dust, paint, or dirt to get on your items during a home renovation. This means that if you want to protect them from getting destroyed, you need to store them properly.

Besides that, not storing your goods properly when remodeling your home can also be really inconvenient for you or the people who will handle your renovation project. You won’t have the space to move around to do the necessary tasks for renovating your interior.

Now, we know what you may think, “where do I store so much stuff?”. Don’t worry! We got you covered with several ideas that will solve your problem.

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1. Get rid of unnecessary things.

After remodeling your home, a lot of your current goods will likely not find their place in your house anyway. So, why waste time, effort, and money to store them properly if they’ll end up being donated or thrown away anyway?

So, the first thing you need to do is to sort all your items to see what you want to keep and what you need to get rid of. Go to every room of your house and see what stays and what must go from that space.

For example, maybe you have an old couch. Storing a sofa can cost you a lot of headaches. So, if you’re planning to get a new couch after remodeling your home, why even bother storing it somewhere safe. This applies to all the things you have around in your home. If you are a bit of a hoarder (or are renovating a home where the owner was), then you might want to look into hoarding cleanup companies – they’ll get the work done quickly for you.

Gather the items you won’t be using anymore and donate them to charity or take them to the nearest recycling plant in your area.

2. Designate an empty room for storage.

If you’re not planning to renovate all your rooms at once, you can use the rooms where renovation is on hold to store your goods.

For example, say you’re first only renovating the first floor of your home. In this case, you can move all the items from upstairs to the ground floor and store them there. Other storage options are the basement and the garage if there’s enough free space there.

3. Find a storage unit.

Finding a storage unit to keep all your goods while renovating your home is probably the most straightforward option you have. Storage companies also typically provide moving services to help you take your items to their location. So, using a storage unit to store all your goods properly is probably the easiest and most hassle-free option.

Look for cheap storages in your area and check the available storage spaces’ size to ensure that you have enough room for all your items.

If you decide to take your items to a storage unit, make sure that you first pack them nicely in separate and labeled boxes so that you can arrange them efficiently in the unit.

4. Cover them with plastic sheets.

If you have no other option than to keep your furniture items inside the rooms while renovating, make sure you cover them with plastic sheets.

Plastic sheets can be life-savers when it comes to protecting furniture and flooring from paint drops, dust, or dirt. And, they are also a cheap and fast way to protect your goods from damage.

Yet, the only inconvenience with this method is that you only cover the largest items in your home. You don’t take them out of the way. So, the space you’re renovating may be a little crowded. If you don’t mind that, plastic sheets are an excellent option to protect your belongings from damage and dirt.

5. Ask your friends and neighbors for help.

The “phone-a-friend” method will never get old. And, if the friend lives in the neighborhood, that’s even great.

If you know that your friends or next-door neighbors have an empty room, basement, or garage where you can store your belongings while renovating your home, give them a call or pay them a visit to ask them for help.

An empty space to keep your goods is an easier thing to ask a friend or a neighbor than to ask them to help you move. After all, your home’s remodeling shouldn’t take more than a few weeks to be done. So, your friend or neighbor with a big garage, free basement, or an empty room will surely not be disturbed by your request.

Pro tip: Pay attention to not damage your friend’s or neighbor’s house as you bring your items in; otherwise, they won’t answer the phone the next time you call for a favor.

6. Make money out of your old stuff.

While this may not be an actual storing solution, it is a solution that will get you rid of some of the stuff that you’d have to move from a place to another. And, the best part of it all is that you’ll also make some money out of them which you can then use to buy new things for your home.

How can you make money out of old stuff that will no longer suit your home’s new design? By selling them. You can organize a yard sale and invite all your neighbors to take a look at your items and buy what they like. You can also take them to a free marketplace and sell your items there. Or, another option is to take good pictures of them and sell them online.

House renovations can get really messy and dusty. It’s always a good idea to properly store your belongings before you start repainting the walls, changing the floors, or any other similar task.

 

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