The hallway can easily become a repository for all the things we don‘t quite know what to do with, but it’s also the first part of our home most guests see. In this apartment, the walls in their entirety have been used with closed shoe cabinets and open shelves to attractively organise a handbag collection.

If you’ve got a collection of any kind, invest time in designing a storage system for it. In this home, shoe storage lives on the otherwise forgotten uppermost section of the bedroom wall, above the wardrobes. A mix of transparent and labelled storage boxes give each pair their own place.

A common storage mistake comes down to placement. If you use things regularly, make them as easy to find as can be. In this kitchen, dry ingredients are housed in glass in a cupboard, locatable at a glance. Daily items like coffee, tea and cereal, live in plain sight on open shelves just above the worktop.