"While Jennelle Mendes' most recent home is a little larger than the Upper East Side 350-square-foot apartment she last rented, at 450 square feet, it's still a small-space problem that needed tackling. "It's New York, so space is always a puzzle, but I love a good challenge," she writes. The rental space in Brooklyn's Bed-Stuy neighborhood had been newly renovated with sleek finishes and offers big windows that Jennelle says drenches the small space with sunlight. But one thing the space didn't come with? Closets!"
""At some point, it felt like I was constantly fighting the space and no matter how much I organized, it wasn't enough," Jennelle admits. "But one thing I've learned about this process is that if something feels like a battle, stop fighting it. Embrace it. So I stopped trying to hide everything and just made the visible storage as cute and intentional as possible. Now, it feels like part of the design instead of something I'm trying to work around," Jennelle says."
Jennelle Mendes lives in a 450-square-foot Brooklyn rental with no closets and abundant natural light. She built custom storage and repurposed furniture to maximize every inch, including hidden solutions behind doors, inside an ottoman, under the bed, and a bar cabinet doubling as shoe storage. She nests a shoe rack under an entry table and uses visible storage deliberately. After finding constant organization insufficient, she embraced the apartment's constraints and made visible storage intentionally decorative, integrating storage into the overall design rather than trying to conceal clutter.
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