College Living Spaces

Moving away to school unfortunately means adapting to smaller living environments. Elfa® shelving provides customized units allowing small dorm spaces to be maximized and your specific needs to be accommodated.

Try transforming your closet by using the elfa® Luggage & Linen Storage. This enables easy storage of clothes and accessibility to other large items. To create a workplace that is both functional and furnished, the elfa® Students Desk provides room for all of your desktop needs, as well as space for your textbooks to be conveniently tucked away in each drawer. With limited space in college, utilize the floor space with an elfa® Dorm Cart. You can put food in the drawers and a refrigerator on top.

Moving out on your own for the first time can be difficult and a little intimating but The Shelving Store makes it much easier by providing you with simple solutions that maximize space!

Elfa® Drawers Are Perfect For Home Organization

Elfa® manufactures drawers that can be used in any room of the home because they know that drawers provide an endless convenience in everyday life.

Use the elfa® laundry cart when you need to sort clothes in the laundry room. It will keep linens in their assigned piles, preventing them from being strewn across the floor. Items, such as detergent and fabric softener, can also be placed on top of the drawers to keep them out of the way.

The kitchen is another area of the home that could probably use a little organization, especially when you're cooking dinner and you're trying to work with limited counter space. The elfa® Kitchen Cart is perfect for storing pots and pans, towels, or even food; and with a butcher block top, this cart doubles as a cutting board for added convenience and gives you more surface area to work. Hooks on the side also allow you to hang utensils, pot holders, and towels.

Of course, there comes a time in every parent's life when they have to say goodbye to their son or daughter as they send him or her off to college. Get them started on their own the right way by giving them the elfa® Mini Dorm Cart. It's perfect for the small dorm room space and will provide storage for books, clothes, or food. It also has a hard, flat surface and heavy duty casters for easy moving.

You can find a spot anywhere in your home that could use an elfa® drawer system. The convenience that they bring will make life so much easier and organized.

Organize Your CD Collection

An extensive CD collection can sometimes get out of hand. CDs become lost and then show up again in random parts of your home, and when you want to actually find a specific album in your collection, it may take several minutes to locate the one you're looking for. If this sounds like your situation, you need to invest in an organizational unit to keep all your CDs in one spot.

Get yourself an elfa® Over Door Media Rack. Heck, why not buy a few to hold all of those unorganized CDs? It's the perfect solution! If you don't have a door to keep these racks, buy an elfa® CD & Video Storage Unit to create a wall hanging rack.

Once you have the unit set up, place your CDs in the racks. While you're doing this, alphabetize the collection either by title or artist. This will make it much easier when you want to find a specific CD in the future. It's easy to organize and store that out-of-control CD collection. You just need the right shelving units.

How To Fit More Stuff Into A Small Space

A common problem in most homes is finding a place for all of the accumulated "stuff." With the proper storage units and shelving accessories, it is easy to get your stuff organized.

SI Chrome Wire Shelving Units are great for storing any items, large or small. They not only provide needed organization, they add style with their decorative appeal as well. Chrome Wire Shelf Enclosures, which come in many colors to match your existing home decor, can also be added to conceal or protect items.

The easy-living organization accessories from Umbra also take care of your extra stuff, while adding that extra bit of pizzaz. Their decorative wall shelves and over-the-door hooks create space for items that need to be stacked or hung. Plus, their kitchen accessories take care of cookbooks, wine bottle, and sponges.

Finally, elfa®'s custom storage solutions are space savers that fit anywhere. Elfa® drawer carts are mobile and have see-through storage drawer systems for added convenience. Custom elfa® closet kits create beautiful, unique closets that have plenty of space for clothing, shoes, and accessories.

Don't despair when looking at your piled up stuff. Instead, head to TheShelvingStore.com for all of your storage and organization needs.

Metro Detroiters: Organize your Homes Quickly, Effortlessly and Affordably with The Shelving Store!

Home storage is one of the fastest growing trends in home improvement, however Southeast Michigan has been lacking in these specialty stores…Not Any More!

One of the few U.S. retailers to offer the elfa® shelving and storage systems, The Shelving Store provides home storage solutions to Metro Detroit through our extensive online e-store and the convenience of our brand new show room in Madison Heights--offering in-home customized installations!

Visit our 1,800 square foot new home storage showroom offering a unique and visually pleasing, boutique shopping experience. The user-friendly layout of the showroom is divided into specific lifestyle sections for each room in your home including the closet, kitchen, office, laundry room, living space, kid’s space and garage.

The Shelving Store designers will come directly to your home and do all the measuring, as well as the complete customized installation. This is a distinctive advantage to our Metro Detroit customers!

Come by and see for yourself! The showroom (in the front space of the Madison Heights distribution center) is located at:
1444 East 11 Mile Road
Madison Heights, MI 48071
800.637.9508

TheShelvingStore.com Launch

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