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 secured to brackets high up under the ceiling: this saves space. At the same time, the bracket can be easily folded and stored flush against the wall.

Canned goods on the floor only gather dust: they can be hidden in small wooden boxes. For tools and other small items, identical plastic containers and boxes are useful, which can be conveniently stored 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 railings.

Design: Irina Brazhnik

Create 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 ones that can be easily stored when needed will do. If there is no room for seating, a hammock can be hung.

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, and a vertical storage system can save room. For small plants like succulents and ficus, compact shelves no wider than 30 cm will do. For pots with plants like ficus, more space is needed: shelves at least 38 cm wide are required.

If you plan a large seedling area, purchase 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 using S-shaped hooks.

Another good option is a cabinet-greenhouse. Plants will not be cold, and for young seedlings, you can install grow lights. For plants on shelves, linear models are suitable, and a table lamp is sufficient for lighting a small area.