Hello! If you need to store some of your belongings, you probably have many questions, such as how to choose a storage facility, how to properly pack your items and how to stack your items inside the unit. If these questions and others are on your mind, you'll find the answers you need about storage when you read this blog. My name is Jenna, and because of my work, I have to move frequently. Since I can't always take all my belongings with me, I have to store them in a storage facility. I've had a lot of experience with packing and storing my possessions, and I want to share all I've learned with my readers. After checking out this blog, you'll know all about renting a storage facility and your questions will be answered.
For the most part, you should not have to worry about taking decorations down from the walls in your home. However, this can change with a long-term remodel that includes adding insulation to exterior walls and painting the walls. It becomes a necessity at this point, and one of the best places that you can put everything until the remodel is complete is in a storage unit. Not only will it help you avoid creating a mess in your home, but it will make it easier to protect the delicate items.
Tapestries
If you have a nice tapestry or even several of them throughout your home, you do not want to take them off of the walls, roll them up, put them in a bag, and hope that they are fine in storage. Tapestries require delicate care to ensure you come back to materials and designs that have not been damaged in any way. Climate control is not something you want to go without as the risks are just too hefty. So many things can damage a tapestry, ranging from drastic temperature changes to excessively high humidity levels.
Artwork
The only place in your home where you could safely store artwork is where the climate is maintained. The garage, attic, and sometimes even the basement are off limits when it comes to art storage. Since it is best to avoid exterior walls, you should look for companies that have an indoor facility. This will make it easy to combine climate control and indoor storage to minimize the risk you take with your artwork. With a whole home's worth of artwork to store, you should use acid-free paper and crescent boards to wrap them in. The acid-free paper is to avoid causing direct damage to artwork and the crescent boards are for space-saving storage.
Lights
Wall lights are perfect because they can go almost anywhere and do not take up space on a floor or table. But, you need to store them correctly as some are made more delicate than others. Lamp shades should always be put into a separate, sturdy box that makes it extra difficult for anything to pierce through. The fixture itself should be wrapped in bubble wrap to minimize the impact with other items. You can talk with a professional, like Statewide Self Storage, for more storage tips.
It is easy to forget about how much work goes into storing delicate items when they have been sitting comfortably in your home for so long, but these tips will help you avoid damage to your wall decorations.
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