LoknBlog found this ‘man storage unit’ on the web.  That means a ‘man shaped storage unit’ not a ‘unit for storing men in’!  A cool and unusual way to store books and other items.  But if its storage that you’re after, get down to your nearest LoknStore Business & Household Self Storage Centre.  They’ll have all the storage space you’ll need plus a huge range of associated packaging items including boxes and bubblewrap.  Don’t know where your nearest centre is?  Not a problem, just give us a call on 0800 587 3322 or visit our website.  Too much stuff?  Don’t ignore it… Lok’nStore it!

Then pop in to the LoknStore Business & Household Self Storage centre on Berkeley Ave.  They have all the space you’ll ever need plus boxes and bubblewrap.  Give them a call on 0118 9588999 or visit our website for more info.

Do you need boxes and bubblewrap?  Your nearest LoknStore Business & Household Self Storage centre carries a huge stock of all the packaging materials you’ll ever need including mattress, sofa, dust covers and more!  We sell both our boxes and bubblewrap at the lowest prices in the industry: we know because we check!

To find where your nearest LoknStore is give us a call on 0800 587 3322 or visit our website.  So get on your bike down to your nearest LoknStore Self Storage centre, but not this bike as it’s made totally of cardboard!  No good on a rainy day.

“I can still remember the first time I visited a self storage warehouse,” said director Eva Weber. “I was there to help a friend move her belongings but became absolutely fascinated by the eerie atmosphere of the space itself. You can almost hear the echoes of other people’s lives reverberating down the long corridors.

 “The objects we store can literally tell the story of our lives each ornament, photo or old gramophone record takes us on a journey through our past, present and into our future,” Weber said.

Made for the Scottish Documentary Institute, “Steel Homes” received its premiere in November at International Documentary Festival Amsterdam, one of the biggest documentary film festivals in the world. Weber is moving on to direct a longer film about self-storage auctions in Los Angeles, which she is intending to shoot this year.

LoknStore Business & Household Self Storage searches the web bringing you all things storage.  We found this cool bed called the Harmonica Storage Bed by CB2.

But if you’re looking to store furniture then look no further than Lok’nStore Business & Household Self Storage.  We have storage centres across the South East of England from Northampton to Poole, Ashford to Swindon.  Give us a call on 0800 587 3322 or visit our website to find your local LoknStore.

LoknStore Business & Household Self Storage spotted this article by Cristina Bolling of  McClatchy Newspapers.

As homeowners recommit to their current house in the economic and housing downturn, they’re looking for ways to find more space to make the most of what they have.

“People are saying, ‘We’re here for a while, so what can we do to make this place more usable and give us space?”‘ says Laura VanSickle who with her husband, Eric, owns Closets by Design in Charlotte, N.C.

The recession has been bringing people to her doors, VanSickle says, as homeowners look for ways to make their cluttered homes feel roomier.

But finding more space is often harder than installing a few bookshelves or cleaning out a closet. We asked area storage and organization experts for their best tricks to adding more square footage to your home without adding a room. Here are their tips.

• Think up. There’s often plenty of space up high in closets and pantries for another row of shelves — and often we don’t fill the ones that are already there.

“We’re really good at maximizing the horizontal space, but we forget about the vertical space,” says Carson Tate, founder of the Charlotte organizational services company Living Simply. She recommends using the backs of doors to store items like shoes or accessories, and even the roof of a garage can be fitted with shelves to keep Christmas decorations or rarely used items such as car-top carriers.

• Try to get some items off the ground. Freeing up floor space will make rooms seem bigger. Would a lighted wall sconce work, instead of a table with a lamp on it? Do you need an entire bookcase, or would a few wall-mounted shelves suffice? In an office, install shelves 12 to 18 inches below the ceiling and line the walls with books. Add a small ladder and it’ll have a library feel. And wall-mounting a flat-screen TV eliminates the need for a big media centre.

• Have a bonus room? Put every inch to use. “They’re big, odd-shaped rooms and you don’t know what to do with them,” Laura VanSickle says. The trick, she says, is to carve them up into smaller spaces. Buy a wrap-around desk and fill it with office supplies to become your kids’ homework corner. Use low shelves to create a nook for toys, and another nook for video games and all the gaming accessories. “It’s amazing how you can squeeze a lot of use into a room,” VanSickle says.

• Use the guest room. Transform your guest room into an office, exercise room or living area by adding a Murphy bed. Murphy beds flip up for vertical storage inside a cabinet, and are ideal space savers because they are just 18 to 20 inches deep — in some cases even allowing your bed to transform into a wall of bookshelves.

Today’s Murphy beds are far more comfortable and easy to use than those of decades past, and much prettier, too. Now, Murphy beds accept regular mattresses and can be flipped open or closed easily with one hand. Some furniture companies also sell cabinets that contain fold-away “drop tables” ideal for crafting, sewing or other projects that you don’t need out every minute.

• Give kids easy-to-use storage space. In kids’ rooms, don’t toss toys into giant toy bins, but instead give them low bookshelves with small containers for different types of toys. Says Tate of Living Simply: Don’t stack books on a bookshelf, because young kids often have trouble inching one book out and putting it back correctly. Instead, place a stack of books in a large square basket where they can be flipped through.

• Choose furniture wisely. Skirted tables are perfect for stashing almost anything, and can be placed in almost any room of the house. A bench with a hinged lid is perfect for the foot of a bed or under a window, and is nice for storing linens, towels or clothes. Use long, flat storage boxes to keep items under beds or buy a set of ready-made steel bed risers to hike the bed up and allow for more storage. Leather storage ottomans do double duty in family rooms as seating or storage.

Or you could put your goods into your nearest LoknStore Business & Household Self Storage Centre.  We has space for you all over the southeast so give us a call on 0800 587 3322 or visit our website for more information.  Too much stuff?  Don’t ignore it… LoknStore it!

Lok’nStore Business & Household Self Storage found this story about a book found in a storage facility in the states.

A decade ago, Joe Florea was cleaning out a vacant storage unit in an Oakland Park warehouse when he made an unusual find — a leather-bound tome dating back to 1870.

The book, Hitchcock’s New and Complete Analysis of the Holy Bible, was rich with history. Tucked inside its pages were two preserved roses, a high school graduation program from 1886 and handwritten family records of births, marriages and deaths.

Florea turned the aged book over to his wife, who stashed it in a bedroom closet and forgot about it — until a few months ago.

Jane Florea, 51, an advertising executive at The Miami Herald, rediscovered the book while cleaning and decided it was time to trace its roots.

For help, she turned to Kim Garvey, genealogy librarian at Nova Southeastern University in Davie. Within a few hours, Garvey discovered the long-lost interpretation of the Bible likely belonged to Essie Beers Osborne, a Connecticut woman born in the 1850s.

“It’s just an educated guess,” Garvey said. “It’s a matter of using deductive reasoning. I used the timeline to put people in certain places. The person who wrote in this book made it very easy.”

At the back of the 1,159-page book are three pages of carefully scribed names, written in a calligraphy-like cursive with purple ink. The records document vital events — births, marriages and deaths — between 1880 and 1915. The heads of the family noted are Erza B. Osborne, born in 1822, and Elizabeth Hitchcock, born in 1829.

Garvey believes that the book, a guide to the Bible with genealogies of biblical figures, maps and a pronunciation guide, was given to Essie Beers Osborne as a wedding gift in 1877.

Though the book is rich with history, it’s not worth much monetarily, said Nora Quinlan, director of reference at NSU’s library. Quinlan worked with Garvey to track down details about the book, which is bound in its original leather and has gilt-edged pages and illustrations.

She searched a book dealers’ website and found four copies of the book for sale, with prices ranging from $50 to $165. The dealer selling the most expensive copy emphasized that the book chronicles the history of a Topeka, Kan., family from 1838 to the 1960s.

“These books were very popular back then and are not unique,” Quinlan said. “But what makes them invaluable are the family histories inscribed in them.”

Personal mementos also add to its charm.

Tucked between the pages of the book Joe Florea discovered were several items likely intended as keepsakes and memories of life’s important events.

The record-keeping in the book stops in 1915, possibly when the owner died.

The book’s journey in the 94 years since then, and how it got from Connecticut to a cardboard box in a South Florida storage facility, remains a mystery.

Looking for storage in Portsmouth, Hants?  Then Loknstore Business & Household Self Storage can help you.  They have a centre next to the Ferry Port by Whale Island which has all the storage space you’ll need and more!  To speak to customer services call 02392 876 783 / 0800 587 3322 or visit our website for more information.