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17 ingenious hidden systems to hide all the unnecessary and save space in your home

Hidden systems that will help you optimize and transform your home and the surrounding area.
Hidden systems to help optimize and transform housing and its surroundings.


The new review has collected entertaining things that will allow you to modernize your home in the most unusual way. Tips collected here will help you save a lot of busy space.

1. Pull-out ironing board

Pull-out ironing board under the countertop of the kitchen cabinet.
Pull-out ironing board under the countertop of the kitchen cabinet.


A retractable folding ironing board hidden under the work surface of a kitchen cabinet will be a real boon for owners of small apartments, where it is quite difficult to find a place to store the board unfolded.

2. Drawer with pet bowls

Retractable step with bowls for your pet.
Retractable step with bowls for your pet.


Special cabinet equipped with a retractable step with compartments for pet bowls. When waiting for guests or cleaning up the house, the step can be pushed in, and the cabinet itself can be used to store food bags, treats, toys, collars and leashes.

3. Pull-out shelves

Kitchen cabinet with pull-out shelves.
Kitchen cabinet with pull-out shelves.


This, at first glance, ordinary cabinet is distinguished by special spaciousness and functionality thanks to pull-out shelves, which, moreover, provide convenient access to all its contents..

4. Bed with drawers

Bed equipped with storage boxes.
Bed equipped with storage boxes.


A well-chosen bed will allow you to save space in a small bedroom and acquire additional storage systems. For example, you should pay attention to models with lifting mattresses and roomy boxes that are suitable for storing bed linen, towels and seasonal items, or give preference to a bed equipped with drawers that can replace a massive chest of drawers.

5. Flowerbed container

A flower bed equipped with a hidden cabinet.
Flowerbed equipped with a hidden cabinet.


A charming wooden flower bed with a small hidden cabinet perfect for storing a hose or small garden tools.

6. Masking trash containers

Container and screen for masking garbage containers.
Waste container and masking screen.


A wooden container or screen will help hide unsightly garbage containers and thereby improve the appearance of the local area.

7. Storing paper towels

Concealed storage of a roll of paper towels.
Concealed storage of a roll of paper towels.


A regular wall cabinet equipped with a rail and a narrow opening in the bottom is perfect for storing and conveniently using a roll of paper towels. This storage system will save space on the work surface and protect paper products from dirt and moisture..

8. Decorative cases

Case stones.
Stones-cases.


Original cases in the form of large and small boulders will help hide unsightly plumbing fixtures, become reliable hiding places for valuables, as well as original elements of landscape design.

9. Cat’s bathroom

Storing the cat litter box in the dresser.
Storing the cat litter box in a dresser.


A converted chest of drawers with a hinged door is a great storage space for your cat litter box and allows you to hide this not very aesthetic item..

10. Screen

Homemade screen door.
Homemade screen door.


The screen door, made of wide wooden slats, will help not only hide the electric wires, meters and automatic devices on the facade from prying eyes, but also improve the appearance of the house.

11. Extendable table

Kitchen island equipped with a pull-out table.
Kitchen island with pull-out table.


Kitchen island with built-in pull-out table that provides the kitchen with a dining area and additional work surface.

12. Pull-out shelving

Narrow pull-out racks.
Narrow pull-out shelving.


Small pull-out racks built into kitchen cabinet panels will increase the potential of kitchen furniture and are perfect for storing spices, sauces and cutlery.

13. Boxes in the floor

Built-in drawers.
Built-in drawers.


The podium and floor of the veranda or porch can be equipped with pull-out and built-in drawers, which are suitable for storing a variety of things, from garden tools to expensive equipment.

14. Bath lid

Built-in bath lid.
Built-in bath lid.


A sturdy lid made of wide wooden slats helps to hide the built-in bathtub.

15. Curbstone-transformer

Homemade transforming cabinet.
Homemade transformer cabinet.


An original convertible cabinet made of pallets, which, if necessary, turns into a double corner table.

16. Cabinet under the windowsill

Pull-out cabinet under the windowsill.
Pull-out cabinet under the windowsill.


A small pull-out cabinet, equipped under the windowsill, will be a great place to store valuables and documents.

17. Bicycle garage

Garage-flower bed.
Garage-flower bed.


A small garage built from timber slats, with a living lawn growing on its roof, will be a safe place to store bicycles and a charming backyard decoration.

Continuing the topic five reliable hiding places in the house that will protect valuables more reliable than a safe and watchdog.

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