5 Valuable Storage Ideas Using Inexpensive Things like Velcro!

In this blog we have come up with extremely useful storage ideas which will surprise you for its sheer ingenuity at use!

1. Using a Velcro to avoid tangled mess:
Now avoid tangled messes by velcroing your appliance cords to the appliance itself when not in use. You will also see your chord sustain its shape and sheen longer.

2. Use glass cases to store makeup brushes, opaque and tidy!
They are opaque and just perfect to provide a veiled storage house to your make up accessories.

When makeup bags don’t provide a sturdy enough storage space for your brushes, use these hard cases to provide for added enhanced protection for your makeup accessories.

3. Cabinets under your bed provide abundant space!
Cabinets under your bed can take a stylish undertone with loft-like pedestal providing huge cabinet space.

4. Utilize trash bags to store your garments:
The next time you see a trash bag only worthy of storing trash and so, this storage idea will give you a jerk of ingenuity. We often dump or forget the plastic garment bags at the dry cleaners and then regretting as to why we did not save them. Not to worry as trash bags too offer a great storage space.

If you’re searching for someone to help you with your storage needs, Du-store is your reliable partner.

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Coolest Way To Store Your Flip-Flops Using Minimum Space and Material

In this blog you will discover an amazing no-cost solution to store your favorite pair of flip-flops in the most convenient way and trendy way.

Let’s begin with the fun part which is the actual hangers. Here's what you need to do-

Grab handful of flimsiest metal hangers from your closet. (Check whether the hangers are easily bent or you are able to easily bend them with hands, if possible.) You will also require a pair of needle-nosed pliers.

Get rid of the bottom section of hanger with the help of pliers like so:

You may require scoring the metal with pliers and then snapping it with your hands.

Now take your pliers and roll up the two edges. This rids you from the sharp edges safely which can be harmful. It also looks kinda cute.

Now, use both your hands as well as your pliers to bend your hanger into such an approximate shape-

Now, honestly, you can just stop here like I did for a year. These hangers are perfectly functional, if a bit dull and drab.

However, you can go one step ahead and decide to pretty them up by putting a fresh coat of spray paint on them:

So, do you guys have any nifty storage tips from your closet? Share in the comments!

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How To Use Inexpensive Things To Store Valuable Things?

Your valuable trinkets need proper storage to sustain their luster. However, many a times storage of such valuable items cost a bomb. But not after you read this blog where you fill find creative and inexpensive ways to store your things.

Ladder storage:

This is perhaps the best use of the abandoned ladder, you hardly use.  A wooden ladder acts as one of the prettiest and cheap way to store your beautiful blankets. Pretty smart, huh?

Tupperware storage:

The misplaced Tupperware tops often fret you? Now face no more lost tupperware tops when they are neatly organized in a dish rack like below-

Sandal Hangers:

About to dump useless hangers? Stop. You can bend these in perfect shapes which act as convenient and inexpensive support for your summer flip flops.

Bracelet Storage:

Bracelets are one of the dearest accoutrements especially for women. However, most find their bracelets losing luster due to improper storage methods and often also find the misplaced. However, this inexpensive paper towel holder will store your bracelets intact and handy, letting you choose instantly the perfect match!

Soap Box for your most valuable travel companion-

A hard plastic coated soap case might be viewed as useless once the soap is out, but not really. It is the perfect size container to store your camera stashed in a carry-on hand bag. Lay your small digital camera inside a soap box keeping it safe and still when traveling.

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Facing Difficulty Storing Your Items In Your Holiday Suitcase? Quick Tips For You

Whether it is 2 feet area or 20 acres, storage is an art. It is not really about the space but how you utilize the available space. This blog entails quick tips so that you’re able to pack all your items at ease in your holiday suitcase.

Utilize not only the suitcase but certain things to make more space

Take for instance, shoes. The space inside can be used to stuff socks and underwear. It’s a great way to make more space; also maintaining the shape of your shoes.

Roll it up

Look at above image. It clearly indicates that rolling enables packing of greater quantity of clothes and fabrics, without crinkles!

Wrapping it up
When you’ve finished rolling lay a pashmina, scarf or large jumper on the top of your case and, if your case has them, close the elastic fasteners. That extra layer will stop smaller, loose items from moving around and keeps everything in place.

The benefit of collaboration
If you’re travelling with two or more people, split your belongings. The chance of losing your case is slim but it’s better to be prepared. If one case goes missing, at least you have another with a change of clothes to choose from.

Get it done in advance
We’d recommend finishing your packing at least 24 hours before you’re due to leave. This will remove the air between clothes just in case you decide to add anything else to your load on the go.

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Attention: Is Your Self Storage Service Provider Deficient?

The answer might be a yes or no. In this blog, you will come across through a real illustration. It is about how a self storage provider lacking in even one salient aspect leads to a great blunder. After reading this blog, you will become alert while choosing the right storage provider.

This is an incident which occurred at Kepp’s Self Storage in New Zealand:

On April 4, 2015; there erupted a fire at the self-storage unit. This resulted in the loss for many people who had stored their belongings with utmost faith at the self storage unit.

Let’s see what the storage facility lacked:

Adequate sprinklers and relative advanced technology-
It is true that like a house, any self-storage unit cannot be immune to calamities like fire, floods or tornadoes. However, the installation of necessary measures greatly helps to prevent losses and gain control over the situation.

Like in this illustration, the self storage provider lacked the sprinklers. Kepp’s buildings did not have sprinklers; the presence of which would have prevented the extent of loss. However, today even sprinklers are not enough and you need storage providers who are equipped with advanced protective gears.

What to look for in a self storage provider to be covered against such losses?

As a customer, you must-
Ensure the self storage provider has a proper insurance clause to redeem the losses of any customer during such situations. After all is not the mistake of customers for any calamity faced by the storage unit. So why should you face losses?

Summing it up-

Have something to add or suggest? Let us know in the comments below.

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What If You Find Shoeboxes As Useful As Making Your Mess Disappear?

Does the idea of shoe boxes can make your home a better place seem tangible to you? If not then after reading this blog you will experience a change of perception. You will perhaps think about utilizing shoe boxes in one of these ways rather than throwing them away.

Are cables messing up with your peace? Not now
Cables, wires and chargers cover significant space of our homes. Often, it creates web-like structures only making the space untidy.

A normal shoe box can absolve you from this mess. All you need to do is make some holes for the cables to easily pass-

Quite innovative yet easy and extremely handy, isn’t it?

A handy tool box to place all your small paraphernalia:
Consider this. You return home tired maybe from a long vacation or a detour only to find all the mess up your desk. Wouldn’t it spoil your jolly mood? And then maybe your spouse or your mother asks you to clear it up or no dinner! As humorous as it may sound, the fact is that nobody likes clutter. It not only distorts the look and feel of your home, but makes it difficult to find something important. All such concerns are addressed with the help of a shoe box. If you are thinking that it might look sombre and unsophisticated then the below images will be enough to show you how shoeboxes can be your best storage option!

 
You can keep visiting our blog for more such storage ideas. Also if you’re searching for reliable commercial storage and self-storage solutions in Dubai, Du-store is happy to serve you.

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Do You Need a Helping Hand to Learn The Most Effective DIY Hacks?

With Du-store you are never alone while experimenting with ‘doing it yourself’ tricks. Further you will come across some easy and most effective DIY hacks.

A useless comb can be very helpful:

Have you ever thought of using a comb which you don’t use anymore to drill nails with a hammer?
You get 2 impressive benefits-
1)    You will prevent bruising your fingers
2)    The nail will be hammered faster
3)    It is very convenient
Bonus tip- Sandpapering the hammer’s end will provide a better grip while hammering the nails to be fixed properly at the right spot.

How magnets can help a great way?

This one is the favorite of many yet not well-spread. Do you hold nails in your mouth while hammering or similar task? Do you feel the exertion when you forget where you placed the nails or bolts? All such trivia can be avoided with a magnet.

Your two hands may not be just enough to handle small tools and hardware. A magnet does the work of a third hand. Just place the magnet at the hammer’s bottom and voila! You don’t have to now put nails or other small bolts in your mouth nor place it somewhere and lose them followed by hours of search.

Getting messy with the paint? Try an elastic band

This is one of the most-sought after DIY hacks. Putting an elastic band around the paint tin’s open side, provides a handy tool for wiping your brush.
Benefits-
•    It prevents unwanted dripping of paint outside the tine or on the corners.
•    It keeps the paint tin nice and clean.

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Troubled With Damaged Photos? Check Out Some Storage Hacks

Do you know why your treasured photos get damaged? The most viable reason is the lack of proper storage methods. A shoebox or any other ordinary box isn’t an appropriate storage house for your photos.

The precious the photo, the more vulnerable it is:
Photos are primarily delicate. The older and more precious they are, the easily they get damaged when not stored carefully.

Safe Storage Hacks:
Archival sleeves:

Stocking up your photos and albums with archival sleeves protects your photos from elements like heat, light, bug infestations, water flow and fingerprints which have damaging effects on photos.

Acid-free photo storage boxes:

Stock up your albums in an acid-resistant photo storage box to make your photos chemical resistant.
Tip- Store your photos in the box after packing them in archival sleeves. It will secure your photos and albums against all harsh elements.

Precautionary measures to remember:
• Using photographic paper or a mounting board can prove to be lethal sometimes due to their acidic content. It can cause long-term damage to delicate films and photographs.
• Prior to storing photos in an acid-free box, don’t forget to remove items like paper clips, manila envelopes and anything which gives odor.
• Troubled over long-term finger marks on photos? Wear cotton gloves during photograph handling.

When nothing works, rely on us:
Some photos need special storage facilities. Dustore provides storage facilities for storing all types of photographs. Our storage facilities consist of climatic control functions which protects not just photos but other delicate items like oil paintings from any kind of damage.

An event for all the photo-fanatics!
If you are in Dubai, you cannot miss the Everyday Middle East - Photography Exhibition. There you can experience a two-way exchange of finest photographs and arts.

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Concerned About Your Items Getting Deformed? Switch To Temperature Controlled Units

People are often concerned about their items getting deformed if not preserved under appropriate conditions. Dustore acts as a savior for such people. Dustore provides reliable temperature controlled self storage services in Dubai.




Why is there a need of temperature controlled units?
Many would opine that majority of items can be stored in non-temperature controlled units. However, certain electronic items, oil-based paintings as well as antiques require temperature controlled storage facilities. Otherwise, the items will get spoilt over a period of time.

Below is a list of items which require temperature controlled units for their proper storage:

• Furnishings

You don’t want your beautiful furnishings and upholstery to lose their sheen, do you? Imagine you bought a brand new sofa. You decided to use this after 2 months and therefore decided to store it in your store house. However, don’t be surprised if you find something like this-

The right side reflects the sofa before 2 months and the left side after 2 months. Now this spoilage can be prevented by storing such items in temperature controlled units.

Easy solution: Whether it is concerned with personal storage or self-storage in Dubai, Dustore is at your service to provide robust storage services comprising of temperature and climate controlled facilities.
Similarly you can preserve the following items under the safest temperature controlled units.

• Antiques

We have special climate control equipments which prevent spoilage of antiques and paintings due to moisture and humidity.

• Paintings

• Vintage cars

We have advanced temperature controlled equipments like anti-freezing tools, self-diagnosis and thermo-control units which sustain these cars in all-healthy condition.

• Photographs

Below are 4 easy tips for proper storage of items:
1. Ensure that items remain dry.
2. Keep  your items elevated (Dustore has elevated pallets installed at all its locations ensuring optimal safety of your items)
3. Keep a regular check on your items

And when all else fails, you can always rely on Dustore’s reliable temperature-controlled storage vaults.

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Nix The Plates and Use the Pizza Box Instead

Binging on pizza this week? Ditch the plates. The pizza comes with its own plates.

Surprised? Read on to explore how?

Don’t dispose of the pizza box before using it!

Pizza! Oh, we can write a poem on our love for pizza. The crushed red pepper toppings. And the cheese. So much cheese. And the cola that it goes perfectly with.

Drooling, aren’t you? Only recently, we discovered that it is not only pizza that is useful, but the pizza box too.

Repurposing the pizza box

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Above shown box is just a part of large pizza box. Confused? Observe the image below:

Top of the box
You can tear off the top of pizza box turning them into 4 serving plates. This idea eliminates the need for dishes.

Bottom of the box
And the bottom of the pizza box can be folded and is instantly transformed into a handy storage container. It is amazingly eater-friendly and fridge-friendly!

Key takeaways:
1.    This is great during birthdays and picnics. You don’t have to arrange for plates for everyone. The pizza comes with its own plate.
2.     Employees can order a large size pizza and slip in the leftover slices into the pizza box container to take home.

This discovery enhances your love for pizza even more, doesn’t it?

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