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Home » Home Organization » Tiny House » Solutions to Hide Clutter in Your Small Home

Solutions to Hide Clutter in Your Small Home

Last Modified: January 30, 2024 Sabrina Quairoli This blog uses cookies. It also has affiliate links. We earn sponsored content income.

There are many ways to hide the clutter in your smaller home, apartment, or dorm room. OK, let's not call it "clutter" because these items you do need and you do use often. If you don't use them and you don't adore them, you should get rid of them now before trying to hide them.

To get rid of the clutter, first, visit this post to help you awaken to the clutter in your home before you find creative ways to hide your stuff. This post is the beginning of a three-part series that will help you awaken to the clutter in your home.

Now that you decluttered but still have things out, you may be wondering why you need to hide some of this clutter in a small home.

Jump to:
  • Why hide the stuff in your home?
  • Hiding Stuff Options in Small Homes
  • Use a Pressure Rod and Curtains
  • Decorative Fabric is Stapled to Wood and mounted to create a curtain.
  • Solid Baskets to hide the items inside
  • Large Zippered Bags
  • Solid False Fronts to Hide Stuff Behind
  • Cabinet Doors In Front of Bookshelves
  • Under the Bed Drawers or Bins
  • Use the Space Between your Refrigerator and the Cabinet or Wall
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Why hide the stuff in your home?

People have stuff around the house and don't even realize that the cluttered space can affect them. See the list below of the ways clutter may be affecting you.

  1. It can be dangerous. Your stuff can create a hazard on the floor where you can trip and fall.
  2. The stuff can distract you. It can draw your attention away from what needs to be done without you even knowing it.
  3. Items left out are usually symbols of incomplete actions that will represent unconsciously or consciously how many to-dos you have to take care of in your life. This will result in more stress and will limit you from relaxing. Below is one of my favorite quotes (Affiliate Link) to share with clients.
Clutter represents indecisions

These are just a few impacts that can take a toll on your life and home. Now, go and clear that unwanted clutter and actions.

Then, come back to this post and start hiding the wanted stuff. In this post, "clutter" will be the items you use and want but do not want to see, day in and day out.  Here are creative storage places in a small home you can use to hide your used stuff.

Hiding Stuff Options in Small Homes

Use a Pressure Rod and Curtains

Hang a pressure rod and hang a curtain in front of a set of shelves (Affiliate Link). I used one blackout curtain to create two curtains to cover these shelves (Affiliate Link). I cut them and measured the opening, and then created a place for the pressure rod and finished off the bottom edge.

Put a curtain in front of a cabinet to hide items.

Decorative Fabric is Stapled to Wood and mounted to create a curtain.

Use fabric, a piece of wood (2 x 2 inches), a staple gun, and 2-3 screws to hide stuff behind an open console table (Affiliate Link). Staple the fabric to the piece of wood by overlapping the fabric to create a fuller look. Then, screw the wood into the bottom of the console table.  I used two café curtains here from a discount store. 

Add a curtain in front of a vanity to hide a basket and trash can

Solid Baskets to hide the items inside

Use baskets in closets, on the stairs going upstairs as a catch-all small items bin, and other areas to store small items you don't want to see. Visit our 12 ESSENTIAL CONTAINER TYPES to see the variety available.

solid wicker baskets to hide stuff in a linen closet

Large Zippered Bags

Use your largest bag to hold smaller bags. Or, buy a cheap (large) tote and store all the bags in them.

One large bag holding smaller bags

Solid False Fronts to Hide Stuff Behind

Use fake book fronts (Affiliate Link), fake pots (Affiliate Link), and fake cans to store valuables. Here are some I found on Amazon (Affiliate Link)(affiliate).

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Cabinet Doors In Front of Bookshelves

Get doors for your tall bookshelf (Affiliate Link) cabinets. This is great for a teen girl's room since they have lots of small stuff. Add boxes (Affiliate Link) with lids that fit inside to organize the items even further.

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Under the Bed Drawers or Bins

If you have a bed frame, you can easily store things under the bed (Affiliate Link) in zippered or lidded bins to keep them free of dust. These bins are easy to access and perfect for infrequently used items.

Some bed frames (Affiliate Link) have these drawers built into the bed frame itself, making it super easy to organize. Ikea has a large selection of these types of bed frames (Affiliate Link). Feel free to check them out here.

Use the Space Between your Refrigerator and the Cabinet or Wall

Some smaller homes have space between the refrigerator and the wall or cabinet. This is a great place to install a pull-out narrow drawer. Here is one example from Amazon (Affiliate Link) (affiliate).

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Additional tips to help you hide the clutter:

Make sure these are items you want to hide. If I hide these items, will I forget they are there? Some things need to be left out so that you remember to use them. One example is your daily vitamins. We like to keep our vitamins out to remember to take them.

Be sure to organize "behind the curtain," too. Add bins to use in the hidden area for similar small items. Labeling the different containers works great, so you can easily find the right bin.

If the serving dishes and other platters (Affiliate Link) are not often used, be sure to have them covered so they do not get dusty. Below is one I found on Amazon (Affiliate Link).com (affiliate).

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I hope these places help you and your tiny home. Remember hiding your clutter will help your room feel spacious, less distracting, and more functional.  Try it and see for yourself.

Please leave a comment below on how you hide things in your home. I would love to hear from you.

Below are other posts to keep your small home organized. Feel free to visit ours and other popular posts about small homes organizing and hiding the clutter.

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  1. Lucy Kelly says

    October 26, 2021 at 3:33 pm

    Curtains on a tension rod are such a smart idea for this situation, Seana. You can change them out, wash them easily, reach behind and grab what you need - what's not to like?

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  2. Julie Stobbe says

    October 26, 2021 at 2:02 pm

    I am really glad you started out with decluttering and then hiding. Lately, I have been telling clients to put a note on their phone to remind them where things are stored (hidden) like winter coats, gifts they have purchased. If they don't see the items they forget. I used the space between my filing cabinet and wall to store large envelopes, sheets of paper and posters. I also hide pictures behind the couch until I change out my pictures on the wall to make my place look new again.

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  3. Janet Schiesl says

    October 26, 2021 at 7:19 am

    It is always challenging to find homes for items that you don't use often and you have some great suggestions. I'm more challenged to help those clients that want everything out. If it's behind a curtain or cabinet door they won't remember they own it. I find that having clear homes for groups of items is helpful, so we name spaces - the cleaning cabinet, the key drawer - something like that.

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  4. Julie Bestry says

    October 25, 2021 at 3:26 pm

    Your title was sneaky, of course, because you're not hiding clutter; you're hiding what looks like clutter because it's hard to keep it looking tidy out in the open! I'm afraid I don't have the handy skills to add the curtains or doors, but I am a big fan of corralling things in baskets and behind false fronts. Neato post!

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  5. Linda Samuels says

    October 25, 2021 at 3:00 pm

    Your title is so enticing. But of course, you're really advocating to release true clutter and make space for things you want...but in a way that doesn't distract us. I love all of your solutions, from bins to curtains to those nifty 'slim' cabinets.

    Reply
  6. Seana Turner says

    October 25, 2021 at 11:34 am

    This is an interesting idea. By providing a visual barrier between items and their designated storage location, you offer a bit of calm and clarity to your space. I was just talking with a client last week about the curtain idea. The doors on the cabinet beneath her sink are broken, and she doesn't have the budget to have them replaced. We are thinking this might be a good interim solution, so thanks for sharing!

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    • Sabrina Quairoli says

      October 25, 2021 at 11:40 am

      The curtain idea works out well because it can easily be washed when they get dusty and dirty.

      Reply
  7. Diane N Quintana says

    October 25, 2021 at 9:01 am

    I love your ideas for hiding things in plain sight. I completely agree that these things must be things you need and use because if they aren't they do not need to be stored at all.

    Reply
  8. siulo darba lietuvoje says

    October 25, 2021 at 8:10 am

    Very interesting, thanks for sharing!

    Reply
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