How to Organize Your Balcony: 3 Tips

After a long winter, the balcony often turns into a garage: everything is filled with tools, garden equipment, and even spare tires. How to quickly organize it? We find out together with Leroy Merlin experts.

Hide Extra Items

Car wheels can be mounted on brackets high up under the ceiling: this saves space. At the same time, the bracket itself is easy to fold and store flush against the wall.

Canned goods on the floor only collect dust: they can be hidden in small wooden boxes. For tools and other small items, identical plastic containers and boxes will do, which are easy to store on shelves.

Design: Yuri and Yana Volkovs

If there are free walls on the balcony without windows, install a modular storage system. It can include shelves, boxes, hooks, hanging baskets, and rails.

Design: Irina Brazhnik

Organize a Relaxation Zone

The easiest way is to mount a fold-down table to the wall — it takes up almost no space. Instead of regular chairs, lightweight folding chairs will do, which can be easily stored when needed. If there's no space for seating, hang a hammock.

Cozy touches include LED string lights with warm white light, decorative cushions with bright covers, throws, and lantern-style lamps.

Set Up a Mini Garden

Usually pots take up a lot of space, but vertical storage systems can save room. For small plants like succulents and fuchsias, compact shelves no wider than 30 cm will do. For pots with plants like ficuses, more space is needed: shelves at least 38 cm wide are suitable.

If you plan to grow a large amount of seedlings, consider a shelving system or a ladder-shelf.

Design: Lesh Studio

By the way, planters with flowers can be hung from the ceiling on ropes. Or a trellis can be mounted on the wall and planters attached to it using S-shaped hooks.

Another good option is a cabinet-greenhouse. Plants won't be cold, and for young seedlings, you can install grow lights. For plants on shelves, linear models work well, and for small areas, a table lamp is sufficient.