
1. Hang your lamp.

2. Get a console table for your bed that doubles as a shelf and a desk.

3. Hang towels and things on the back of your door.

4. Disguise your desk as a bedside table.

5. Or, instead of a footboard, use your desk.

6. Prop up your bed on risers.

7. Or go for a high bed with tons of drawers.

8. Go the super-cheap route with an air mattress and milk crates.

9. Make a low-profile hanging hamper.

10. Tuck your bed into an alcove.

11. Make one wall a focal point with removable wallpaper.

12. Suspended tables can create an illusion of space.

13. Desks and dressers can also float.

14. Hide a shelf behind your bed.

15. Turn old drawers into stackable shelves.

16. You can skip the headboard in favor of a few inches of more floorspace.

17. Or build a cushy headboard that hangs on the wall.

18. If you don't have a closet, offset your bed from the wall and create a closet behind it.

19. Use every corner of space.

20. Shelves count too.

21. More corner tricks: Hang some hangers.

22. Cover your windows with frosty film.

23. Looking for color? Use paper instead.
