Light, portable, affordable and available in many shapes, sizes and styles, baskets offer a decorative storage solution for every room in your home.
From disguising clutter to hiding dirty laundry or simply keeping everyday essentials in one place, there’s a basket for every storage conundrum you come across in your home.
How to use storage baskets in the bedroom
Use baskets in the bedroom to keep magazines, books, tissues, a spare pillow, your yoga mat and other bedroom bits that are necessary for comfort, but can often look like clutter when lying around. As you’ll want easy access to the contents, it’s best to keep a basket at the foot of your bed or on either side or tucked underneath a bedside table.
Photography: Nic Gossage
How to use storage Baskets in the Bathroom
A sturdy, oversized basket or two will quickly become an essential addition to your bathroom. Perfect or keeping dirty towels and laundry out of sight, it can also double as a bath table to hold magazines.
Photography: Kristina Soljo | Story: Real Living
How to use storage Baskets in the Laundry
Tossing dirty clothes into laundry baskets is nothing new, but there are other things you can do with baskets to make washing and ironing a little more organised and much more attractive, as well as keeping laundry staples neat and tidy and close to hand. Creating a basket for ironing is a useful idea, too.
Photography: Alicia Taylor
How to use storage Baskets in the Living room
Whatever the season, there are always creature comforts lying around in the living room. A large basket is the ideal portable storage solution for your throw rugs, games, books, playing cards, spare tealight candles, matches, and all the other bits and pieces that make life more comfortable, but look messy when scattered around a room.
How to use storage Baskets in the Home office
If your home office is little more than a desk in a corner, a small basket is ideal for storing your pens, paperclips, sticky tape, stapler, calculator, post-it notes, envelopes, stamps and scissors. A basket with a wide, flat base and straight sides is the best option for stationery as you can easily see what’s inside and paper won’t become creased. Small jars or gift boxes are great for storing paperclips, staples and rubber bands.
Photography: Kristina Soljo
How to use storage Baskets in the Nursery room
Baskets are a godsend when it comes to keeping kids rooms and nurseries in order. Use stylish storage baskets to keep nappies, socks, dummies, bibs and toys in designated homes to make things easy for yourself and keep things as neat and tidy as possible.
Photography: Tommaso Riva
How to use storage Baskets for Indoor plants
Woven baskets will elevate your indoor plants and make them even more of a feature while adding texture to a room. Remember to put a tray in the base under the plant to catch water.
Photography: Courtesy of Mr and Mrs White
The best storage baskets for any room in your home
sea grass basket
Wicka sancerre rectangular seagrass basket, $35.95, Temple & Webster
Handmade from renewable sea grass by talented, fair-trade artisans, this familiar basket has a timeless, durable design. Slip into a cupboard to organise your towels or linens, or alternatively, place it by the front door for shoe storage.
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Bamboo storage baskets with handle
Bamboo storage baskets with handle (set of of two), $96.75 (usually $129.00), Hard to Find
Featuring a unique Aztec diamond pattern, this woven bamboo storage basket set is a stylish and practical storage solution, that’s available in two sizes, either a medium (Diameter 30cm, Height 41cm) or a large ( Diameter 35cm, Height 40cm). Use to store hats and shoes, bathroom towels or toys.
Kuki Small Woven Storage Basket
Kuki Small Woven Storage Basket, $ 20 (usually $59.95), Freedom
Light-weight and easy to move around, you can also see through the sides of this basket to view its contents so a great one to stack onto shelves in a home office or kids’ room.
Measurements: W32 cm x D32 cm x H30 cm
Giovanni Grey Basket
Giovanni Grey Basket, $50 ($usually $99.95), Myer
Also available in other sizes, this poly rattan basket is water-resistant and reinforced with a metal frame, so makes a perfect pantry basket. The simple design and grey colour would suit many decorating styles – from modern country to a more contemporary monochrome setting.
Measurements: W53 cm x D43 cm x H30 cm
Lark basket
Globe West Lark Natural Large Woven Basket, $179, Aura Home
Big and soft, this urn-shaped seagrass basket is handmade and makes a stunning feature on its own or filled with a lush potted plant. This is the largest of three available sizes.
Measurements: D43 cm x H47 cm
Plato Basket
Plato Basket, $67 (usually $89.95), Freedom
Sturdy and stylish, the touch of white at the base of this basket lends itself to coastal decor. A great one to house a large pot plant, big handles make for easy manouvering – plant and all.
Measurements: W45 cm x D45 cm x H45 cm
Large Jute Laundry Basket
Large Jute Laundry Basket, $75.03, Etsy
Super generous in size, this large, low basket is woven in soft jute, making it flexible for wrestling larger pot plants or yoga mats inside. Long handles make it a handy laundry basket – simply pick it up and take the whole thing to the laundry! Also makes a great beach basket as it will flatten when empty.
Measurements: W40 cm x H40 cm
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