Designer storage: how to combine functionality and aesthetics?
Shelves, bookcases, or boxes: every storage solution can enhance your home’s interior decor while optimizing space. Discover a few clever ideas for combining functionality and aesthetics.
- Staggered shelves: Shelving is an essential storage solution. To add a decorative dimension to your shelves, position them in a staggered layout to dress up your home’s walls and create relative depth.
- A bookcase to partition space: An essential piece of storage furniture, a bookcase can be transformed into a partition within a room. This creates a pleasant library area that adds character to your room while maintaining its brightness, as some niches can remain empty to let light through. Beyond books, this storage unit also serves as a beautiful showcase for decorative objects, scattered randomly throughout the shelves.
- Decorative storage boxes: These adorn an open storage space by transforming into decorative objects. You can use these accessories within an open dressing room to stylishly store wardrobe items you wish to conceal: jewelry, shoes, belts, etc. A clever idea for designing a walk-in closet that combines style and organization!
There are many other decorating ideas to combine style and storage. How do you choose from all these tips? Every space to be furnished is unique. These are living spaces that host people who are also unique. The best approach is to consult an interior design professional to implement those that perfectly meet your organizational expectations and the decorative atmosphere of your living space.
7 designer storage furniture pieces and accessories for the home
As an expert in interior layout, Jbonet has selected 7 designer storage solutions for you that perfectly combine style and organization. These storage ideas offer you the immediate opportunity to apply the decorative advice mentioned above…
Storage Idea No. 1: Muuto Stacked Shelving System
The Muuto Stacked shelf brings order to your interior space while allowing for all variations in style. Indeed, it is not just a simple shelf, but a stackable shelving system that offers a modular storage solution that can be individually configured according to your needs and aesthetic preferences.
For example, to bring lightness to the whole, individual modules can be installed with spaces between them. Different sizes and colors of modules can be combined. The shelves can also form open, semi-open, or closed compartments, with or without a back panel, with or without feet, etc. These infinite configurations adapt to any type of space in the home: hallway, kitchen, living room, dining room, bathroom, bedroom, etc.
Storage Idea No. 2: Cassina Nuage Bookcase
Storage Idea No. 3: Molteni & C 505 Up Bookcase
Designed by Nicola Gallizia, the 505 Up bookcase can be modeled according to your needs thanks to the Display module. This protruding storage offers maximum freedom of layout and style by allowing the grid of vertical and horizontal shelves to be moved. With these dynamic elements, the piece moves away from the traditional bookcase with a fixed design and classic functions.
Storage Idea No. 4: Molteni & C Hector Bookcase
Designed by Vincent Van Duysen, the Hector bookcase also allows for varied compositions. It is a vertical modular bookcase that can extend up to a height of 315 cm. Another special feature: trays with rounded corners serve as shelves (solid wood or aluminum edges and wood or glass bottoms) and are fixed to uprights with an offset positioning. Create the furniture of your choice thanks to these modular elements with an airy design.
Storage Idea No. 5: Muuto Restore Basket
Made from recycled plastic bottles, the Restore storage basket is the warm vessel you were missing to hold your daily belongings. Toys, magazines, office accessories, and many other household objects find their place there to maintain interior order and sprinkle your interior with small colorful touches of your choice. Both soft and robust, it stands out for its cozy aesthetic and practicality.
Storage Idea No. 6: Vitra Toolbox RE
With its toolbox-like appearance, the Vitra Toolbox RE organizer proves indispensable for storing small objects. Whether to keep your office supplies, kitchen utensils, or any other small accessory close at hand, this recycled plastic box constitutes a storage accessory that is both clever and stylish with its multiple compartments and carrying handle.
Storage Idea No. 7: Vitra Uten.Silo RE II Wall Organizer
Another original storage solution for small home accessories, the Vitra Uten.Silo RE II wall organizer features numerous compartments of various shapes to adapt to your organizational needs in any room of the house. Made from recycled materials, this wall-mounted storage system is available in different colors.
Find a complete selection of functional and aesthetic storage furniture and accessories in our online catalog. All the greatest designer furniture manufacturers are available within our high-end range: Cassina, Vitra, Molteni & C, Muuto, etc.




