The manager of the self storage facility helped me choose a self storage unit that was the best size for the items that I needed to store. When I told her that I would be storing a china cabinet and its contents, she recommended that I purchase specialized packing boxes that would help protect the china during the trip to and from the storage unit. She had the boxes available in the office so I did not need to order them from somewhere and wait for them to be shipped to me. In addition, the storage facility manager helped me make arrangements to get a small moving truck to get everything to the storage unit and back to my house after the remodeling was completed. If it had not been for the close proximity of the self storage unit and the help of the manager, I might not have managed to get the remodeling done and I would not have my larger kitchen.
Using Self Storage Helped Me Get a Larger Kitchen
I love our house, but as the family grew, the small kitchen became a challenge to use for food preparation and there was nowhere for the children to be seated in the kitchen while meals were being prepared. I tried to let them color or do homework at the dining room table around the corner, but that limited my ability to supervise them. The lack of supervision often led to arguments between them and sometimes messes that might have been avoided if they were in the same room that I was in.
I consulted with a remodeling contractor and he came up with a new floor plan. He suggested that the wall between the kitchen and dining room be removed and the two rooms be combined to give me a large, eat-in kitchen. There would be more room for me to prepare our meals and the children would be in full view while I was doing it. However, he told me that proceeding with the remodeling meant that I would need to find a temporary place to put the dining room table, six chairs, and a large china cabinet that was full of dishes as well as the contents of the kitchen cabinets that were on the wall between the two rooms. I knew there really was not enough room anywhere in the house to store all of these things, so I contacted a nearby self storage facility.
