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Idea's for converting space under stairs?

Looking for any creative or interesting ideas (or anyone who has experience) of creating storage space under a stairwell (links to photos or website would be great too). Basically I have a simple stair case that is against a wall that goes from the ground up to the top (no twist, right angles etc). Looking to tidy up the area instead of having lots of misc' boxes.

Potential Idea's for things I am looking to store would be:
* Shoes (lots of them)
* Vacuum Cleaner, Brooms, Mop, (ie anything that has a long handle)
* Wine rack
* Ironing board
* Candles

Even if you have words of advice or personal experiences of "what not to do", I'd love to hear from you.

Cheers

here's what i did with our basement stairs and seems to work great for our needs: for the bottom 4 stairs i made drawers, each the height of one step (about 7.5 inch) and they were made so that they all came out in width so that they formed a straight vertical line --the bottom drawer was 40" wide, next up was 31"wide, next up was 22" wide , next up was 13" wide. each drawer was 32 " deep. the straight vertical line they formed was 33" high,and at this point i put a door that was 33" on the drawer side and sloped up at an angle along the stair line to a point where it was 63" high. the door was about 36" wide. Iput in another door to fill the remainder of the space (about 36"). behind the 2 doors are shelves. in the bottom drawer, i put rounded slots and keep bottles of wine and liquor (seems to keep them at a perfect temp.) the next drawer is divided with partitions and contains photo albums, utility bills, xmas and birthday wrapping paper, utility bills and other misc. The 2 top drawers contain shoes and gloves, mittens, scarves, toques, etc. (the shoes are about 90% my girlfriends)! in the sloped door closet, we keep the vacuum cleaner and winter boots on the floor and on the upper shelf we keep some preserves and dry goods (mostly dog food, cat food, and kitty litter). In the bigger closet we keep winter wear,skates, and skis, and on the upper shelves there are games, videos (old family movies and stuff we hardly ever watch), tennis racquets, and a couple of boxes of who knows what (which never get opened to my knowledge).
PS: I keep the liquor drawer locked.

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