How Can Decorative Baskets Make Your Home Beautiful and Clean?

Charming Ways to Hide Mess, Make Life Better

Anni Sofferet
Decorative baskets can add beauty to a home in two simple ways: By looking beautiful, while hiding the mess. Offering inexpensive storage solutions, different decorative baskets can fulfill different roles, making life better with easy access to the things you need, when you need them. No more hunting for objects buried in dark closets. Decorative baskets keep things out in the open, but also out of site. And for far less than it would cost to buy storage furniture. So discover all the ways in which decorative baskets can make your home beautiful and your life better.

Kids Rooms and Nursery Decorative Baskets

Baskets are ideal for storing toys in the rooms of young children. Choose plastic baskets that will not unravel, and teach your child how to organize his belongings in a series of decorative baskets. Unlike plastic bags that can present a choking hazard, plastic baskets are safe. Smaller decorative baskets can hold crayons and pencils, helping to organize desks or art centers. And medium-sized decorative baskets can hold laundry or trash, teaching your child the value of keeping his room clean.

Pet Decorative Baskets

Pets often have as many toys as kids. Hide the mess by storing pet toys in decorative baskets. Choose lids with a catch, and open the catch only when you want your pet to be able to flip the lid open. Decorative baskets can also offer a beautiful storage solution for your pet's wardrobe. Keep the coats, sweaters and shoes together and avoid hunting for them in your coat closet.

Bedroom Decorative Baskets

Hide the mess on your nightstand with an all-purpose decorative basket that can hold your reading glasses, watch, jewelry, etc. Keep a small decorative basket for holding your cup of coffee or glass of water, to protect the surface of your nightstand. A decorative basket in the corner can hold dirty laundry or trash. And if you have a television set or CD player in the bedroom, a decorative basket offers an ideal storage solution for DVD's or Music CD's.

Bathroom Decorative Baskets

Organize your bathroom with decorative baskets. Keep the laundry tucked away in a decorative laundry basket. And build a simple shelf to display clean towels in tray wicker baskets. The shelves are easy to build with decorative shelf brackets that support a plank of wood or a decorative mantle shelf. Simply follow the instructions in this article. On the rim of your bathtub display extra soaps and bath salts in plastic decorative baskets. And keep cotton balls, tissues and Q-tips in small decorative baskets by your bathroom sink. Finally a large decorative basket can make an excellent magazine holder by your toilet, while a tall, tube basket can hold extra toilet paper rolls.

Published by Anni Sofferet - Featured Contributor in Business & Finance and Lifestyle

Anni is a full-time freelance writer and owner, creator and designer of InventiveHomeImprovement.com, RationalSelfDefense.com, and MyMoneyLifeLessons.com. Her accomplishments on YCN include the Rising Star A...   View profile

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  • Jenny Heart 2/5/2010

    All great ideas! I do some of your ideas already. Now I think I want to add more baskets. Thanks!

  • Shaheen Darr 2/5/2010

    You have some really creative ideas here! thank you for sharing

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