battenburg
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Hi All,
First post here. Not quite sure if its the right forum so please let me know if you think this would be better posted elsewhere.
Being at home a lot recently has made me think about improving my bike storage. I'm in a small terrace with a fairly narrow hallway and I'm looking for some inspiration for keeping my two bikes under the stairs. Its a standard layout - two rooms on the right as you go in, staircase in front adjacent to the second room. The walls along the side of the hall mean that there isn't much space for turning the bikes. I tend to just wheel them straight down and back them out the same way.
At the moment there's a built in cupboard at the far end; the run of the stairs before that is almost long enough for a bike, but not quite, so it means the wheels stick out at a slight angle into the hallway. I'd like to either rebuild the cupboard 'around' the bikes (so perhaps be a bit cleverer with the cupboards, get a bit more storage space too), or shift everything so that the bikes hang up at the far end. At the moment there is a lot of dead space that clutter tends to accumulate in.
I know it'll depend on the exact dimensions etc., but I was wondering if anyone else has done anything along these lines that I could get some ideas from? There are lots of pictures on the internet, but they all seem to look like showhomes with bikes hanging on gleaming white walls! This is quite a small space really, and I can't seem to find many examples of my kind of house.
Any suggestions appreciated!
First post here. Not quite sure if its the right forum so please let me know if you think this would be better posted elsewhere.
Being at home a lot recently has made me think about improving my bike storage. I'm in a small terrace with a fairly narrow hallway and I'm looking for some inspiration for keeping my two bikes under the stairs. Its a standard layout - two rooms on the right as you go in, staircase in front adjacent to the second room. The walls along the side of the hall mean that there isn't much space for turning the bikes. I tend to just wheel them straight down and back them out the same way.
At the moment there's a built in cupboard at the far end; the run of the stairs before that is almost long enough for a bike, but not quite, so it means the wheels stick out at a slight angle into the hallway. I'd like to either rebuild the cupboard 'around' the bikes (so perhaps be a bit cleverer with the cupboards, get a bit more storage space too), or shift everything so that the bikes hang up at the far end. At the moment there is a lot of dead space that clutter tends to accumulate in.
I know it'll depend on the exact dimensions etc., but I was wondering if anyone else has done anything along these lines that I could get some ideas from? There are lots of pictures on the internet, but they all seem to look like showhomes with bikes hanging on gleaming white walls! This is quite a small space really, and I can't seem to find many examples of my kind of house.
Any suggestions appreciated!
