In my college days in MN, we "hid" the snowtires under a plywood round and a table cloth and used it for either a nightstand or a coffee table. We put cardboard under the tires so they wouldn't get the carpet dirty.

We always used etegre's over the toilet and stuffed them decoratively with rolled up towels, TP rolls on their sides (hiding extra shampoos behind them), wicker baskets holding hair do-dads.

We currently store items under the beds in long roller plastic containers. Cased canned goods work well too. We put them on those plastic roll-up snow sleds and the cases slide right out when you pull on the sled's hand hold!

In my old, tiny kitchen, I put resin wicker totes on the tops of all the cabinets with color coordinated fabric covers to store all my seasonal canning, juicing, food prep items. Nearly doubled my storage space in the kitchen!

I never thought of taking the panel off the fridge to store stuff there, but we did slide in the brooms behind it! Snow shovel was affixed to the back of the kitchen door (for when you had to dig yourself OUT of the house!)

Great thread! I impressed with toe-kick (hidden) drawers for the kitchen. Just an amazing use of space, even though they are shallow. Great for baking pans, trays and platters and even extra dishes or silverware.

When we were newlyweds, hubby was in college and we lived in a 10'x50' mobile home with a one-butt kitchen - so kitchen storage was very limited. On one side of the living room window was 18-inches of space from the window to the corner of the room. We built shelves just deep enough to store cans, jars, and home-canned foods, and it was all covered by the floor-to-ceiling heavy drapes.

In a vein similar to loonlakelaborcamp's tires, I've stored off-season clothes in (new) galvanized trash cans (you can also use plastic). The cans were topped with a round sheet of plywood to make the trash can into a table -- then a pretty round tablecloth to the floor and a crocheted doily on the top. Over the doily and tablecloth we put a round sheet of plexiglass. This kept the top clean because we used them as side tables in our bedroom and living room.

-Grainlady

Grainlady -- you reminded me where we stored all our winter duds -- in those trash cans used as covered night stands! Boots, gloves, snowmobile suits, and helmets. The motorcycle/camping gear went in them during the winter time.

Did anyone slip cases of canned goods under your skirted sofa? Kept the cats out from under foot too!

My grandpa built all kinds of little storage shelves in every nook of their tiny house. I always loved the shelves over the doors that you didn't see until you got inside the bedroom.