I keep my linens in a bottom drawer in the dresser of each room.
I have a rubbermaid underbed storage container I keep my junk in under the coffee table in the livingroom.

I do not buy anything in bulk anymore because I do not have any place to store it.

You will get a new frame of mind and if you find yourself veering away from keeping a lot of stuff. If you don't look at "how clean is your house". It will help you remember that even though you may be neat things can get out of control pretty fast.

do a google search for vacuum cover

this is a broom cover

The vacuum cleaner stays in the basement when we aren't using it. I have a laundry room that has a door on it, so odd things like the vacuum get shoved in there when company comes. Brooms, mops, etc "live" in the laundry room.

Comforters, out of season clothes, etc. go in vacuum bags in eaves in the attic.

Our house has no foyer and no hallways.

We did recess one set of hooks into the stud spaces so the coats wouldn't bulge into the walkway as much. And there's a quite high hatrack on the wall for brim-type hats.

Linen in the bottom drawer of the wardrobe, which (a) we have because there are NO closets in our house, and which (b) is in the living room because the bedrooms are too small. Towels on a high shelf in the bathroom (ceilings are 10 feet, we try to use the height).

The vacuum... where ever it was last used... looking at making space in the laundry room, which is the original pantry off the kitchen.

I guess if it wasn't worth it, we wouldn't keep doing it! If you have 4 closets, it's a wealth of space :-)

KarinL

I dearly miss having a coat closet. I hope to make my dining room octagonal and gain a coat closet in one of the wedges. The door would open into the hallway, not the dining room. I already have bay windows, so just two wedges would complete the octagon.

We have hooks in the back hallway, so the front hallway sort of stays uncluttered. Guests get to drape their coats over the radiator by the front door (toasty!) or else I carry them back and hang them. We get a lot of exercise with this old-fashioned layout!

We have no halls either. In the front room (no entryway either) I have a shelf with hooks on it against the wall by the door. I have a painted dresser in the front room that holds most of my table linens, the rest are in another dresser. We have very small closets in the two original bedrooms, which we use as storage as well.

We have an almost basement, which I can almost stand up in, and it is filled with tools, paint, holiday decorations, etc. If we didn't have it, all that stuff would be in our detached, one-car garage! Old houses are fun!
Diane
Armoire:

And one more comment for Slateberry - I couldn't help thinking of Harry Potter's bedroom when I saw pictures of "The Club House" at your old house site!

For the speedreaders who still haven't noticed:

I AM NOT CRAIG OR YVONNE, AND THEIR HOUSE IS NOT MINE.

It's a great house, it's just not my house. I don't want to take credit that belongs to them. If you like their house, you can email them from the site I linked to in my comments about octagonal rooms and wedge-shaped closets.

Modestly,
Slateberry, aka Alex **not Craig or Yvonne**

I too have an octognal dining room so viewing that one was fun :) Thanks for sharing even if you got goober over it LOL I have wedge shaped closets in mine as well heh heh

Mine is a china cabinet and the door was removed (we just found it) but it's a nice idea, and even period appropriate to shave off a corner for something like this:

Forgive me the bow on the tree...we were only just moved in and I had to improvise (and did so badly) LOL

I actually just use the phone nook which now has a smaller desk and hooks along the wall you can't see when looking in from the hall.

Alex you can claim our house if you'd like :oP But if you do you have to visit and clean bathrooms LOL (hell I'll give you half the house if you'll just clean the bathrooms heh heh)

I do really want to thank you...I really enjoyed that website!

You know, before this thread, I thought my octagonal dining room plan was just another one of my drunken house musing fantasies. But now they're popping up everywhere; so why not? Now I just gotta go look up my framing code rules. And finish my other projects.

igloochic, gorgeous diningroom. The phone nook is a gem.

Here's the smoking parlor fireplace...which backs up to the dining room fireplace:

Here is a very rough house plan drawn by the PO. What we recently learned is that behind that diagonal china closet rests another chimney which is why it's so small, and why it finishes the octagonal of the room verses just being a bay sort of window on one side. I think I'm going to find a chimney in the center hall (the builder was english and they used to do winter stoves in the center halls...we know there was one above it and in the hall below on the basement level as well).

You don't really look at the outside of the house and say "Octagon" instead you say "mcmansion" (because we use every square inch of the property boundry LOL But just for the dining room (and the master suite) we have these little octagon areas...very fun, but bizzare LOL

The plans are a bit deceptive...how could you hide chimney's in those interior walls...well they're about a foot and a half thick.

The house we bought is also 900 square feet. It has the tiniest coat closet ever, which we lined with hooks. We also put hooks in the basement stairwell hallway, which opens onto the driveway. Very convenient.