29 Modern Storage Ideas To Organise Your Living Room
29 Modern Storage Ideas To Organise Your Living Room
By Oskar
22nd Sept 2025
If you feel like you’re fighting against clutter in your home every day, then our living room storage ideas can help you take back control and keep everything organised.
We spend so much of our lives in our living rooms - as you’d expect, given the name! Relaxing on the sofa after a long day at work, family movie night in front of the TV, or simply hanging out with friends and family: it all adds up to a lot of fun, but also a lot of clutter!
With our modern storage ideas for your living room, you can start to reclaim the space and make tidying up easier (and a less frequent chore!). From coffee tables with convenient drawers to console tables that are both subtle and stylish, adding some more storage options to your home is a surefire way to make organising quick and simple.
Looking for something specific? Check out the six chapters included below if you’d like to go straight to a particular type of furniture.
1. Harrogate Painted Coffee Table
Your coffee table has the potential to be so much more than just an extra surface. Take this Harrogate Painted Coffee Table, for example: it’s got two drawers for additional storage, keeping it sleek and neat while still giving you more organising space. The white and oak colour scheme is perfect for light and airy living rooms too, especially paired with other white or cream furnishings and wooden effect flooring.
2. Coniston Painted Coffee Table
If keeping everything easily accessible is more important than hiding away your storage, then this coffee table could be an ideal choice with its prairie coloured storage shelf. It would look great as a lowkey bookshelf, or the perfect place to store board games ready for family game night (or a video game collection!).
3. Taunton Wooden and Rattan Coffee Table
For the best of both worlds, with both drawer and open shelf storage, this Taunton Wooden and Rattan Coffee Table might be an ideal choice. Half of the storage is tucked away behind a retro style, oak and rattan drawer front, whereas the other half is immediately accessible as an open shelf. Its metal base adds a little edge with an industrial aesthetic, too.
4. Oslo Solid Wood Coffee Table
Continuing the trend of coffee tables that bring together modern and retro style, this one has a sleek drawer front that looks like it opens to two drawers, but it’s actually one large drawer. Underneath, you have an additional large, open shelf as well. With its complete oak style, it’ll fit into a modern living room look perfectly.
5. Greenwich Abstract Wooden Bookshelf
Give your living room some charm and character as well as a new storage option - and it’s not just limited to books, despite the name! You can use a bookshelf to display all sorts, from houseplants and vases to candles and speakers, and the abstract design of this bookshelf means there are plenty of surfaces and nooks for all your trinkets and treasures.
But if you need some more book-specific storage options, don’t worry; we have a range of creative ideas for book storage in small spaces.
6. Taunton Wooden and Rattan Bookcase
For a more traditional approach to a bookshelf with a cool, retro feel, this Taunton Wooden and Rattan Bookcase is an excellent option. It has both enclosed storage behind the two rattan-front doors and also three open shelves for storage and decoration.
7. Copenhagen Wooden Sideboard
Consider adding a sideboard to your living room for a large amount of extra storage, and, with the Copenhagen Wooden Sideboard, a stunning, fluted design. With both surface and interior storage, it’s perfect for organising and decluttering your living room.
8. Holcombe Glassfronted Sideboard
If having your stored away items visible is important to you, then this glassfronted sideboard may tick all your boxes. It has a traditional style with a smoked wood finish and glass panels, with plenty of shelf space.
As well as allowing you to mix organisation with interior design, the visible shelves serve a practical purpose too. No more putting things away safely and then later thinking they’re lost, as you can easily see everything you’ve stored in this sideboard!
9. Taunton Wooden and Rattan Sideboard
Keep your living room storage sleek yet homely with this rattan-fronted wooden sideboard. It’s full of space for everything from books to children’s toys, with three doors that open to two shelves each: that’s six shelves in total! You also get some storage potential on its top, ideal for a lamp or house plant.
10. Coniston Large Painted Sideboard
Bring a lot of varied storage options into your living room with this large sideboard, featuring drawers, enclosed shelf space, and open shelving too. It’s all in a beautiful meteor blue/grey colour with a planked oak top, ideal for traditional and cosy living room aesthetics.
11. Oslo Solid Wood Sideboard
Versatile and modern with a hint of retro style, this sideboard includes three drawers and six enclosed shelves behind three drawers. Maximum storage with maximum style, it’s sleek and unobtrusive, easily blending into light, modern living room aesthetics.
12. Beauden Solid Wood Drinks Cabinet
As well as being a smart and distinguished pick for storing your drinks and glasses in, this cabinet adds to a sophisticated, modern living room look. It’s an attention-grabbing statement piece that can elevate your living room’s aesthetic, and can be used for all sorts of storage.
If you don’t need it for keeping your drinks in order (and related glassware), consider books, games, or valuable ornaments and collectibles. Plus, the top half of the cabinet’s interior has a mirrored back, adding to its classiness and maximising how large the space feels.
13. Harrogate Painted 2 Door Sideboard
Elegant in its simplicity, this sideboard is perfect for busy households: two drawers and four enclosed shelves behind two doors, in a homely white and oak colour scheme. It’s so versatile and fits into both modern and traditional living room aesthetics, and its oak surface would be ideal for decorations and small furnishings like table lamps.
14. Flynn Wooden Fluted Sideboard
Stylish, timeless and charming, this fluted sideboard makes for a wonderful living room statement piece. Its matt black colour and fluted texture is stunning, and it also offers six enclosed shelves of storage behind three doors. Plus, for the ultimate storage convenience, each of the doors are ‘push-touch’, resulting in a completely sleek and modern design.
15. Taunton 6 Drawer Chest
Although you might be more familiar with seeing chests of drawers in bedrooms, they’re actually a pretty stylish option for living room storage too. For example, this Taunton 6 Drawer Chest features, as the name suggests, six whole drawers to add to your living room storage options, with rattan and oak drawer fronts for that retro twist.
16. Oslo Solid Wood 3 Drawer Chest
Clean lines with a white oak look makes this chest of drawers perfect for light, modern living room aesthetics. With three large drawers for storage, you can organise your living room in style while keeping it looking neat and tidy. You can use the top for some decorative storage, or perhaps some ornaments or a lamp to brighten up your living room.
17. Freya Wooden 5 Drawer Chest
Go a little taller with this Freya Wooden 5 Drawer Chest to make the most of narrower spaces in your living room. With a grounding and homely wood effect look, it’s the perfect addition to a cosy living room, and has so much storage space to help with your decluttering efforts.
18. Copenhagen Wooden 6 Drawer Chest
Practical and stylish are the best combination, and this chest of drawers has both. Its fluted look is unique and eye-catching, and the six drawers on offer will be a brilliant boost to your living room storage space. Its oak finish fits seamlessly with a range of living room aesthetics, making it a versatile option too.
19. Eden Wooden 4 Drawer Chest
Another narrow option, the Eden Wooden 4 Drawer Chest can fit into living rooms where space is at a premium. With four drawers for storage, it’s ideal for organising and keeping clutter out of sight. The metal legs, with a black finish, and the black metal handles give it a cool, industrial feel.
20. Harrogate Painted 6 Drawer Chest
White and oak is the perfect combination for a cosy modern aesthetic that will bring a little light and warmth into your living room. Six drawers gives you a lot of extra storage space to work with, and they could be an excellent place to keep soft furnishings like cushions or throws.
21. Lombok Wooden TV Stand
As well as being a great base for your TV, a TV stand or unit can add some seamless storage into your living room. This stand has a drawer, an open shelf and two enclosed shelves behind a door, with a trendy fluted finish. The open shelf is perfect for video game consoles or books, or even a compact lamp or speaker.
22. Taunton Wooden and Rattan TV Unit
Modern quality and the retro feel come together with this wooden and rattan TV unit. It has two cupboards and also three open shelves, with space suitable for large books or magazines. The black finish pairs well with the metal base, creating a cohesive modern aesthetic that has a little bit of classic charm.
23. Metro Wooden Console Table
Sometimes, all you need is an extra surface for a little bit more storage space. Take the minimalistic approach with this Metro Wooden Console Table, for a versatile and unintrusive console table that adds to your living room storage options without interfering with your aesthetic.
24. Miami Wooden Console Table
This bold yet simple console table will be a stunning addition to any living room. It adds an extra surface for storage, and also introduces some beautiful dark oak to your decor. You could even maximise your space further by adding in some storage boxes or baskets underneath the console table.
25. Bryant Wooden 2 Drawer Console Table
This console table is a step up when it comes to storage options. While it’s still relatively compact and easy to fit into your living room, it has the top surface, a lower open shelf, and two drawers available for storage. In matt black, it’ll make a stunning yet subtle statement against lighter walls.
26. Coniston Painted Console Table
Sometimes, the smallest solutions can be the smartest ones, such as this set of three decorative baskets. You can use them alongside some of the other living room storage ideas we’ve covered so far, such as on your coffee table or console table. These handwoven baskets bring a little bit of charm and character to your living room, as well as some extra storage space.
28. Owen Wicker Storage Baskets
This pair of woven storage baskets could be the versatile living room storage solution you’ve been searching for. You can either use them for typical storage (such as soft furnishings), or take it a little outside of the box and consider using one as a base for a faux house plant.
29. Mathilda Hand Crafted Storage Baskets
Putting these three hand crafted storage baskets on a shelf could give you some much needed additional storage space. Their interesting green triangle pattern adds to the mainly natural coloured material, giving them an extra aesthetic touch too.
Final Thoughts On Living Room Storage
Often, the living room is the ‘heart’ of the house, but it can be a very busy and sometimes very messy heart! Hopefully, you now have some ideas to help you handle the chaos and clutter, and you could take the clean, organised new look further by choosing mirrors that open up your living room.
Oskar
Oskar is an expert home interiors blogger who loves sharing practical DIY tips and home inspiration. Alongside style advice, he also writes expert how-to guides with easy step-by-step instructions to help you update your space with confidence.