When choosing accessories, furnishings and furniture for your home, you need to consider the style of what you’re buying to know if it will fit with the decor already in your home, but you also need to think about the utility of your items and how useful they will be in your day to day life.
Making all your choices based on style will leave you with a lovely looking home that isn’t much use to you and with insufficient storage in your home, your beautiful decorations will be marred by clutter which will cancel out the look of all your stylish pieces.
So utilitarian accessories are important in the way they can reduce clutter and provide extra utility for you, which can often remove the need for you to buy something else and give you a ‘two birds, one stone’ situation where you’re meeting two or more of your home’s needs with only one item.
What are the best multi-use home accessories you can buy for your home? Well, let’s find out!
Add Storage With Dual-Purpose Furniture
Pretty much any piece of furniture in your home can be replaced with something that can double up with more storage. You can easily find beds and sofas, where the top can be lifted off to reveal storage underneath, this will give your home some extra storage, without you needing to sacrifice any extra floorspace to get more storage space.
Use Double Blinds For Day & Night
Blinds may not strike you as a multi-use item, they’re there to keep light out of your room right? But normal blinds aren’t always the best throughout a day, there will be times when normal blinds let too much or not enough light into your home. So swapping your old blinds for a set of new double roller blinds will keep your home perfectly lit all day, as you can use the dimout layer during the day to let some light in, or use the blackout layer at night to keep any light from leaking into your home.
Turn Storage Into A Cozy Reading Nook
If you have a low height storage unit like a bookshelf in your home, you can turn it into storage that doubles up as a nice reading nook. If your storage unit is around the height of a bench, simply add some cushions to the top of the unit and push it against a wall. Once you’ve done that. you have created a nice space to store your books as well as, peacefully sit and read to your hearts content!
Add Extra Utility To Tables & Units
If you already have wooden units like a coffee table or storage units in your home, you can add a bit of extra utility to them with some simple DIY to fit your needs. For example, if you enjoy wine, you can attach a small wine rack to your home’s coffee table so that you can always have a bottle within reaching distance, if you’re not a wine fan, simply follow this process for something else. This will also give you a nice conversation piece for when you have visitors.