If you’ve chosen an older home, you love character and history, but fitting your modern life into the space can be a challenge. Older homes aren’t “open concept”, they tend to have small rooms and closets, odd angles and what might seem like unusable space in various nooks and crannies. You might need to scale down, using space-saving furniture with its own storage—like coffee tables with drawers, ottomans with hollow insides, and tall bookshelves and armoires that use up vertical space.

If you’ve chosen an older home, you love character and history, but fitting your modern life into the space can be a challenge. Older homes aren’t “open concept”, they tend to have small rooms and closets, odd angles and what might seem like unusable space in various nooks and crannies. You might need to scale down, using space-saving furniture with its own storage—like coffee tables with drawers, ottomans with hollow insides, and tall bookshelves and armoires that use up vertical space.

But scaling down your lifestyle may not be your style! If you love character, you probably love the furniture and decor that goes with it. Beautiful and antique pieces fit perfectly with the architecture but are not generally “practical.” So the first thing you need to do to find storage in an older home is to go through the rooms, choose only the furniture that is essential for your comfort and your “look”, and sort through everything else. Decide on what you need, what you want, and what you can dispose of. The key category is “what you want.” If much of your furniture and possessions are of sentimental value, you don’t want to get rid of them but you don’t know where to put them. This is where self-storage can be the perfect solution.

Keeping precious furniture and materials with memories is easy to do in a properly heated and secure storage unit where you can hang on to those much-loved possessions without bursting at the seams at home. You can even take a “revolving door” approach to your furniture, occasionally exchanging some of the pieces in your home with the pieces in storage.

Clearline Self Storage fulfills all of your needs. Heating, 24-hour security, a variety of sizes, and automobile access directly to your unit are just some of the ways you can take advantage of our personal storage options. Use Clearline to keep the character without the clutter.