lost in space

05Jan12

Lost in Space

The thing about living in a small and limited space is that each and every inch of what you have counts. Everything is cramped and it requires sheer talent and skill to make the space work. It must be a designer’s nightmare to put the furniture pieces of the right form and function and yet make it all work together. More often than not, if you want both form and function, be prepared to spend. But this may not always be the case.

Dish Stackers

When it comes to the kitchen cupboard space, I’ve recently found a solution to maximize the unused part of the cupboard by putting a storage shelf rack. Now instead of stacking items on top of one another, creating another partition provides better usage of space. Since it’s not stacked, I don’t have to remove items from the cupboard just to get something that’s at the very bottom of the pile. Dish stackers are available in various sizes in Make Room.

The kitchen counter that I have is less than a meter in length. A portion of it occupies the stove, the utensils and the knives and the rest would be shared as working space to prepare food for cooking and area to dry washed dishes. While I’ve been longing to find a dish rack that will work with the space that I had, I kept in mind that it has to be all of the following:

• for it to have a pleasing form
• not bulky but can work with the narrow limited work space
• collapsible or something that requires easy assembly or it could be tucked and stored away when not in use

Umbra Sink Rack Red

Recently, I found the Umbra – Sink Rack. Notably it has a nice design form and it works well with my limited space. Best of all, I have the option to put it in the sink giving me more work space.

Umbra Sink Rack Red specifications:
Material: Moulded plastic
Dimensions: 28cm x 30cm x 4cm
Designer: Mauricio Alfonso

Going to the living slash dining slash bedroom area, this actively occupies majority of my entire space. While I don’t have a lot of shoes, I needed a place to store them using the least possible area. I recently fixed this after I bought a shoe rack from my recent trip in Hong Kong. Since I visited the IKEA store there, I bravely purchased the red Trones 3-piece cabinet and shamelessly flew it back home. It was all worth the trouble as it proved to be one of the things now in my house that I treasure the most. It has a sleek design and all can be stacked or side by side. It’s a flexible shallow-depth cabinet that is very much ideal for limited spaces.

IKEA Trones Shoe Rack

Trones specifications:
Width: 51 cm
Depth: 18 cm
Height: 39 cm
Package quantity: 3 pack
Designer: Richard Clack

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