Dwelling in a small condo in NYC (or anyplace for that matter) means continuously determining the place to place your belongings with out making your area really feel cluttered. In my front room, I wanted one thing that might maintain loads however nonetheless look good, and after having a tough time deciding between a couple of, I landed on the Miller Low Shelf from Schoolhouse in shell. It’s easy, sturdy, and makes my condo really feel extra put collectively with out taking over an excessive amount of area.

When searching for the right shelf or credenza, I had a couple of standards: I hoped to seek out one thing that might maintain the overflow of my kitchen gadgets, together with plates, cookbooks, my fruit bowl, and some of my prized copper pots, with out trying like a messy storage unit within the middle of my eating room.

This shelf is the right center floor–it’s decrease to the bottom, open, and pretty lengthy, making it simple to press up towards a wall, all whereas having sufficient area to truly be helpful. One of the best half about this shelf? It’s a flexible piece of furnishings that I may simply as simply place below my wall-mounted TV or fill with storage baskets in an entry approach ( sadly, I don’t see myself having an entry approach for a lot of extra years).

How I Styled It

I may need an eye fixed for baking decadent desserts, however styling a room or furnishings doesn’t come as simply. That’s why I like this shelf—so long as you know the way to stack a couple of plates and books, chances are high it’s going to look good it doesn’t matter what. You may have a look at the photographs I’ve added to see examples of my styling, however right here’s what I at present have saved on my new prized possession:

• My fruit bowl that’s too massive to place anyplace else and holds a rotating assortment of near-expiring fruit.
  A glass pitcher full of matches I’ve collected from NYC eating places (how authentic of me).
• Too many cookbooks and books to depend, a lot of that are my boyfriend’s enterprise books (that I may in all probability slowly begin to do away with).
• And lastly, an obscene quantity of serveware, which I can’t appear to get myself to dwindle down despite the fact that we’re solely two folks, and I not often host.

In only one piece, the shelf solved my storage woes, and the most effective half is that it additionally is available in a forest inexperienced, in addition to completely different sizes, so no matter your fashion there’s a couple of choices to select from. Although I’m sticking with mine perpetually.

Do you’ve any favourite storage items? Let me know within the feedback!