It can be very difficult to find a room for food storage if you are living in an apartment or a small house. Things become even trickier when you have a family to take care of. But then, you can pull off this task with a little creativity. You can use existing spaces in a smart way to enhance food storage capability of your home’s interior.

In this article, we are going to talk about the few places where you can store your foods.

Create false bottoms in the cupboards

This method works really when you have low cupboards. You can place boxes on the floor for food storage. Then a piece of wood can be used as a cover for those boxes. You can use rest of the cupboard’s space for the normal items that you want to put there.

High shelves in the children’s closets

The high shelves in children’s closets remain unutilized because children cannot normally reach those high shelves. You can use those shelves for storing the emergency foods. If there isn’t any high shelf in the children’s closet, you can opt for the false floor we have talked about in the above mentioned food storage method.

Racks on the cupboard doors

Creating a spice rack on the inside of the cupboard doors can create an amazing place to store the spices that you are going to use during emergency situations. Essentially, you will get valuable space in the cupboard that can be used for emergency food storage. Spices racks are available from the market and they are usually quite less expensive.

Bigger items

We have certain bigger and hollow items that always remain empty. These items are most used for decoration purposes. They include wicker baskets, chests, hollow footstools, and bigger vases. You can fill them with foods, and nobody will be able to tell that these are actually the functional decorative items.

Space above the kitchen cupboards

In many kitchens, there is an unused space of about two feet above the kitchen cupboards. This space between the cupboards’ top and ceiling can actually be one of most reasonable spaces to keep the emergency survival foods. But make sure that you are placing lighter items there in order to avoid adding extra weight.

Under or around the furniture

A little adjustment of furniture can create more room for anything that you want to store. You can definitely use that bedroom space for storing your emergency survival foods. Pulling the furniture a little away from the walls creates a space which you can use for storing the foods. You can cover that food storage with bed sheet, tabletop, or any kind of fabric. The space beneath the furniture items can also be used for this storage.