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 explore together with Leroy Merlin experts.

Hide Extra Items

Car wheels can be mounted on brackets high up under the ceiling: this saves space. The bracket itself is easy to fold and store tightly 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 are useful for storage 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 Brzhnik

Create a Relaxation Zone

The easiest way: attach a folding table to the wall — it takes up almost no space. Instead of regular chairs, lightweight folding ones that can be stored when needed will do. If there's no room 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, and a vertical storage system can save room. For small plants like succulents and fuchsias, compact shelves no wider than 30 cm will work. For larger plants like ficus, wider shelves (at least 38 cm) are needed.

If you're planning a large seedling area, consider purchasing a shelving system or a ladder-shelf.

Design: Lesh Studio

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

Another good idea is a cabinet-greenhouse. Plants will definitely not feel 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.