Genius Home Hacks!

In this video, I go over some of the most genius design hacks I can find. I am such a sucker for storage hacks and finding hidden storage solutions because I think it's one of the best ways to make your space look cleaner and more curated.

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➤ Expand Furniture - Murphy Bed

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00:00 - Genius Home Hacks!
00:50 - Thanks to Our Sponsor - Wayfair!
01:51 - TV Shelf
03:41 - Books To Hide TV Tech
06:23 - Spice Cupboard
08:11 - Hiding Inside Furniture
12:28 - Hidden Rooms

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[Nick_Lewis]

Youtube was a bit glitchy with me on this video for some reason, but all links for products discussed in the video are now in the description and timestamps are back in!

[neferkiti]

As a librarian, I give you all permission to make DIY stuff-hiders with old books, as long as they're not rare. It's the ideas that are sacred, not the paper and glue!

[susantownsend]

Hidden rooms: I once had a sewing room that could only be accessed through my walk-in closet. The point was that I didn’t have to worry about it looking messy when I left an unfinished project spread out all over.

[TitusRex]

My grandmother had a Narnia style wardrobe that was a hidden room I found it super cool when I was a kid.

[ColleenJoudrey]

True story. My husband got lost in the Wolcott Hotel in NYC one night and somehow ended up in a abandoned service stairwell that led to a very art deco ballroom that must have been closed off for at least 10 years, It was completely disheveled with at least an inch of dirt on everything. He's always looking for neat hidden spaces and rooms because growing up in old town Lunenburg, it was common for homes to have hidden spaces for sometimes odd reasons.

[larakorik]

Are you kidding me, “not a sexy topic”? Storage is the best topic of al 😂l, thank you Nick!!

[robert]

I have a pretty small house and the primary bedroom is right off the living room. I've always thought replacing the bedroom door with one of those swinging bookshelf doors to make it more hidden could be a cool way to hide a private area when entertaining in the public living space

[ES]

“The jig is up! “ on the hidden room…you live there! I laughed so hard. I’ve thought the same…like who are you hiding from…you live alone!

[peterzellmer]

Hidden rooms are fantastic for kids' play rooms. They love showing them off to their friends

[LordGertz]

For years we had this beautiful sidewalk cabinet. When you opened it you saw 8 solid wood folding chairs and table inserts, you pull what looked like a drawer and it pulled out to a table for eight (we actually sat 9 it with an extra chair pulled up at the end). We were so said when we lost it in a fire. It was from either the 60s or 70s really well built, I believe imported from Europe, with the play of wood tones I think Scandinavian. I have never found the same quality in construction or design.

[geetha]

When we built our fairly compact kitchen, we had a few odd spaces that we decided to make into very needed storage. We have to bump our fridge forward to make the layout work & have access to the water line. We ended up with a very deep, but only 5” wide space, the height of the fridge, so we added a door on the side of the fridge cabinetry and made it a broom closet and a shelf above for cleaning supplies. We also had an odd niche up high between a ceiling beam and upper cabinets, so we added a wee little door and a couple shelves. It’s only 3-4” wide but deep enough to keep medicine, matches, birthday candles and flashlights. We also planned & built toekick drawers that slide open under most the cabinets, it was wasted space but now they open to store large serving platters, placemats, cookie sheets, gift wrapping supplies and I occasionally hide Oreos, from my kids, there. Totally invisible but so easy to access.

[Chaotic_Pixie]

So, for the secret-keeping books, they actually sell "books for making art" which are actually designed for this type of project and other projects. They have spines for classics in the public domain but they either have no text at all on the inside or its all text filler. Using out of date reference books that aren't old enough to be of historical significance (meaning they're new enough that they were heavily mass-produced but old enough to be irrelevant for research) is another great option. Like, if I were doing this for my spouse's office, I might go looking for some out of date engineering textbooks I can pick up for a few dollars rather than sacrificing materials others could use to learn from or reference. For myself, being an artist, I wouldn't dare sacrifice a real book for mine but would opt for the books for making art.

[JV-pukx]

One bit of caution with the TV niche: the TV _will_ get replaced. The replacement may not have similar enough dimensions to fit and the hole pattern for the bracket may be positioned differently. We encountered that, the new TV sits higher on the bracket and, no, we cannot just reposition the bracket as the new holes, in the wall structure, would be too close to the old holes.

[PasCorrect]

I think hiding a door/staircase makes sense if you rent out part of your house as a separate unit. Especially if it's on the tenant's side. No one wants to have a sad door reminding them their landlord lives upstairs, and extra shelving is always nice.

[trishaeverton]

I just sent my sister a set of books that were destined for the pulp recycling place but had been repurposed. The covers had been covered in a beautiful world map paper and the spines when stacked say, ” Paris is always a good idea. - Audrey Hepburn”. Such a great reuse.

[nateolmsted]

I think this is the first YouTube video where all of my thoughts are addressed during the video. Like the heat issue on the flush mount TV.
Really shows that you've actually thought about the consequences of life with these things instead of just "oh, this looks neat. *Share*" like most things I see on Facebook and Instagram and Pinterest and other YouTube videos 😅

Great stuff 👌🏼

[richardvinsen]

My previous house had a slim cabinet that previously stored a fold-down ironing board. I installed thin shelves throughout and turned it into a large spice rack.

[minagica]

Actually, that trick with book covers from old books that will absolutely never be read again is also a decent way to hide some valuables too – though it's also why some thieves will pull all the books off of bookshelves (if they do it on TV there's gotta be some IRL that do it too 🤷‍♀️)

[rabbitgregory]

I don’t need a hidden room, but for reasons unknown, I’d love to have one. Realistically, It would probably become a dumping ground for all my unfinished craft projects.

[saffroneallen]

Two things from Expand Furniture that you missed that I love. The bookshelf table is also great for small spaces, and I love that they have freestanding Murphy beds. Most apartments won't let you anchor something like a regular Murphy bed to the walls (especially if the walls are concrete slab or cinderblock) but they actually have twin and queen sized Murphy beds that are stable without anchoring. Fantastic for a spare room that needs to do double duty without risking your damage deposit, and you can bring it with you much more easily if you move.