In Storage

With a name like that it had to be included in this month's series on storage. I'm not sure its belly is quite big enough for the amount of storage that I seem to need to cram away but it might encourage a little more tidiness in future. image by Angus Thomas of angusthomas.com Designed

  French Wine Rack from Design Vintage There's nothing like a little drop of sun to make one feel like a little drop of something chilled and these old French champagne racks are perfect for storing the bottle as they wait their turn in the fridge. I've wanted one in my kitchen for ages but

Doughnut coat hooks from alllovelystuff.com Coathooks. There are never enough and they're never big enough. But these would bring a smile to your face every time you walked past wouldn't they? Proper Homer Simpson style doughnut hooks available in a set of three and made from solid beech. Work out how many you need, buy

bella edgley tray table I do love a bit of multi-purpose furniture and this prototype tray table from Bou Design is perfect. The top simply lifts off and can be used as a tray but underneath there is a second top which remains as the table top effectively doubling the useable space while halving the

fantastic filing rack from Cox and Cox Perfect for the home office, this filing rack is both practical and pretty. For some time now, I have had a set of four of those industrial mail racks on the wall in the kitchen and it has to be said that they tend to be stuffed full

idaho modular shelving from fashion for home When we were doing the kitchen up a couple of years ago, the question of what to do with the recipe books kept coming up. We have hundreds of them, far more than we ever use, but they are beautiful to browse through so we wanted to have

Lombok artisan chest of drawers I find myself returning to this chest of drawers again and again. It wouldn't work for everyone but I love the combination of the soft brushed aluminium with the wood. The piece was inspired by those vintage steam trunks, which I love and I think it would make a great

sloped and slanted bookcase from anthropologie I'm tempted to crack a joke about this bookshelf being dedicated to everyone who has ever tried, and failed, to hang a picture straight (that'll be me) or to put up a shelf, but actually I love this rather too much to be rude about it. side view of

industrial wall storage by House Doctor DK from Bodie and Fou Now this I want. Perfect for all those bits and bobs in a kitchen, it would also look great in a bathroom where the clutter really does seem to mount up. But I can also see it being very useful over a desk in

Bowles and Bowes Mesh storage locker Father and son Peter and Charlie Bowles are the team behind industrial lighting company Original BTC and Davey Lighting, of which, it has to be said, I am a big fan (I have three of their lights in my kitchen). Anyway, they have now moved into furniture design with

Bakers Shelves from Uniche Interior Furnishings In my alternative world - the one through the looking glass if you like - where everything is opposite and contrariwise, I wouldn't have a fitted kitchen. I would, of course, be living in some crumbling (I mean that in an attractive rustic plaster kind of way, not a