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Maximizing Space on a Minimized
Budget
by: Travis Boudreaux
Do you often have friends, family, or guests over for the
weekends and are in desperate need of a spare bedroom? Are you going
nuts trying to figure out how to turn that extra bedroom that’s
never used into an office, yet still wondering how to board guests
over the weekend? Or maybe you are running out of storage space and
closets are now turning into no-mans-land?
Well if any or all of these problems are posing an unsolvable
quandary for you and your family, I may have a great solution for
you! For this article we’ll take a 10’ x 12' room for our example.
First off we’ll discuss optimizing storage space. Stroll down to
your local Wal-Mart, K-Mart, Home Depot, Lowe’s, or browse your
favorite websites that deal in Home and Gardening products. If you
are as frugal as I am you’ll shop until you find the absolute lowest
price on the planet. A couple of Closetmaid Freestanding Instant
Organizer’s from our favorite store along one wall of the room can
drastically enhance storage space, and will only cost us about $50 -
$60 bucks.
For those of us who also spend more than 5 hours a week working
at home and in drastic need of office space need not fret. A nice
affordable corner desk, also known as an L-shaped desk, can be found
at our local Wal-Mart, Office Depot, or local internet store for
under $200 dollars. These desks provide a much larger working area,
and can be placed in the corner of the room to give an extra 20
square feet of more of open space by arranging it in this manner.
And lastly for all of us who love to have guests stay over, but
not enough space to dedicate an entire room to this function, an
inflatable air bed is the perfect solution. Within the last couple
of years inflatable air beds have grown in popularity. One of the
latest additions to these great products has been raised air beds.
Raised air beds provide an average height of 22 – 29 inches.
Compared to an average 10 – 12 inches for regular air beds, raised
air beds give sleepers a more familiar position, a more comfortable
sleeping surface, and an overall better night’s sleep. To find these
great raised air beds head on down to your local Wal-Mart, K-Mart,
or drop by
http://www.air-bed-mattress.biz for the latest air beds and
great deals.
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