If You’re Looking For a Unique Way to Store Extra Seating Around Your Home, This Is It

Living in a small space can make you reconsider what you really need in your home, and what would just be nice to have. Seating and storage are definitely two of those things that a lack of square footage can make you have to choose between. But what if you could actually have both? One tiny home dweller may have just cracked the code.

Sofie Hepworth is a content creator and the founder of “Three Boys and a Pink Bath” who lives in a 450-square-foot home in the UK. Since Hepworth shares her home with her husband and two kids, she’s learned to be creative with the way she stores and organizes just about everything. “This tiny house took eight months to build, and before it can be used to entertain guests, this super small space has to work as an actual home for our family of four!” Hepworth says in her house tour.

Hepworth and her husband need a place to stay while they renovate their old fixer-upper, so they built this small garden studio as a temporary solution. Hepworth admits that her biggest challenge in this space is trying to fit everything a family of four with two young children needs into 450 square feet. “It was not easy,” she says. “But I overcame the challenge with a lot of head scratching, many many drawings, cardboard cutouts, and trial and error.”

Hepworth implemented tons of genius small-space solutions to make the space function as a home and look good, too. One of her favorite hacks is hanging foldable chairs on hooks throughout their home.

“I had this idea to hang extra chairs on the wall (for when we were in office mode for me or for guests) and this literally came straight out of my head,” Hepworth says. She bought gorgeous wall hooks for just $13 and mounted them so that the chairs would be perfectly aligned when they were hung. This allows the family to utilize as much floor space as possible, without having to sacrifice extra seating when they need it.

“The hooks are SO useful, and not just for the chairs,” Hepworth says. “They’re also great for hanging toy bags, washing, coats, and anything else you need to get off the floor.”