What are you supposed to do with them anyway? Read on to learn how to turn these small, unused spots into beautiful, functional spaces. We’ve got twelve great ideas, mostly from our house tours.

1 Corner Wine Rack

Corner Wine Rack: Name: Steve, Jeremy and dogs Squirt, Elij, Leo & Pogo Location: Medical District Chicago, Illinois Size: 3,000 square feet single family home Years lived in: 8 months owned Most Apartment Therapy readers are champs when it comes to small space living. Im continually impressed by the creativity and ingenuity that I find when shooting tours of extra teeny homes. But every now and then, I come across homeowners who don’t have the same space restrictions that most of us deal with. With a whopping 3,000 square foot home, Jeremy and Steve have the opposite situation, yet still manage to bring a keen eye for detail to their clean, contemporary home. (via Apartment Therapy)

2 Art Corner Organization

Art Corner Organization (via Thrifty NW Mom)

3 Corner Shelf with Storage

Corner Shelf with Storage: Build a stylish corner shelf for extra storage in tight spaces. Free DIY corner shelf plans and tutorial. (via Remodelaholic)

4 Corner Bookshelves

Corner Bookshelves (via Truly a lovely life)

5 Install a Corner Rounded Shelves

Install a Corner Rounded Shelves: Do you have a space that space one that just screams Do something with me! in your home? Well, we do. And I have been eying that little nook for about 2 years wishing I could think of what to do with it to make it useful, attractive, and maybe even functional Show me the rest! (via My Mobilehome Makeover)

6 Hidden Fridge Gap Slide-Out Pantry

Hidden Fridge Gap Slide-Out Pantry: In this Instructable, you will learn how to steal some much needed kitchen storage, and not take up any more room in doing so. I live in a small apartment with an even smaller kitchen that is lacking in the storage department. So I needed a new cabinet, and since I do NOT have permission to put big holes in the walls for more cabinetry, I thought that the 4.5 inch gap between my refrigerator and the wall could work. I am now able to just pull the pantry out and grab whatever I need and slide it back into hiding. I love how much storage it actually has and that it does not take up any additional space.Oh and the process will be much faster and less sweat inducing if you have an electric saw and not just a hacksaw. (via boston09)

7 Make it Special

Make it Special: We tend to ignore the corners in our homes. They are weird in-between places that don’t have an automatic solution, and wind up in awkward decorating limbo, both overlooked and undervalued. What are you supposed to do with them anyway? Read on to learn how to turn these small, unused spots into beautiful, functional spaces. We’ve got twelve great ideas, mostly from our house tours. (via Apartment Therapy)

8 Corner Shelving System

Corner Shelving System: Hi, it’s Mandi from Making Nice in the Midwest. When my husband and I first moved into our ranch home two years ago, we weren’t quite sure how to fill out the long living room space, but we were sure we wanted some extra storage for our modest collection of books. After quite some time of living with this empty corner of the living room, I decided the perfect solution… (via A Beautiful Mess)

9 Canned Food Organizer

Canned Food Organizer: DIY Canned Food Organizer Tutorial (via Classy Clutter)

10 Floating Bookcase

Floating Bookcase (via Darn Crafty)

11 Corner Rope Shelves

Corner Rope Shelves: Corner Rope Shelves DIY: Check out these super unique and fun way to do shelves! Very little supplies needs, cost is low! (via HoneyBear Lane)

12 Corner Bookshelves

Corner Bookshelves: Click here to see free plans for how you can make your own custom built-in corner bookshelves. (via Remodelaholic)

13 Built-in Upholstered Bench

Built-in Upholstered Bench: How to build and upholster a corner banquette bench. (via Teal and Lime)

14 Corner Fireplace

Corner Fireplace (via Thrifty Decor Chick)

15 Foyer Seating

Foyer Seating: A warm and inviting entry. (via Houzz)

16 Breakfast Nook

Breakfast Nook (via Madcap Frenzy)

17 Customize a Cabinet

Customize a Cabinet: Name: Shannon Schelbert of mac+cam photography, along with husband Michael, sons Mac (10) and Cam (8) and dog Tottenham (named after Tottenham Hotspur) and cat Messi (after soccer player Lionel Messi) Location: Aldridge Place Austin, Texas Size: 2500 square feet Years lived in: 3 owned It’s all about details and materials in this Central Austin home. It’s also about customizing a home to fit the residents’ needs. Not only has the house been modernized in many ways, it’s been expanded to fit a family of four (six if you count the pets) and transformed into a rich and sophisticated space with unique details that burst with character and personality. (via Apartment Therapy)

18 Bed Tucked Under the Stairway

Bed Tucked Under the Stairway: Showcasing the photography of London based photographer Antony Crolla (via Antony Crolla)

19 Sofa Table

Sofa Table: Behind Sofa Table DIY (via Always Never Done)

20 Transform the Unusable Space to a Cabinet

Transform the Unusable Space to a Cabinet (via Saucy’s Sprinkles)

21 Corner Gallery Wall

Corner Gallery Wall: DIY corner gallery wall (via Liz Marie Blog)

22 Corner Heart Display with iPhone Photo Prints

Corner Heart Display with iPhone Photo Prints: Learn how to make this corner heart display! We’ll use iPhone photo prints from PostalPix and other tools. (via Postal Pix Blog)

23 The Lazy Susan

The Lazy Susan: 5 Solutions For Your Corner Cabinet Storage Needs. Mother Hubbard’s Custom Cabinetry explains what we do to solve the corner cabinet dilemma (via mhcustom)

24 Corner Closet

Corner Closet (via mint love social club)

25 Reading Nook Under Stairway

Reading Nook Under Stairway: Reading nook under stairway. New home of modern craftsman style, designed and built by Chris and Elizabeth Brabant. Photo taken by Laura and TJ. (via Houzz)

26 Corner Drawers

Corner Drawers (via Blum)

27 Kitchen Corner Drawers

Kitchen Corner Drawers: For those hard-to-reach places, there are all kinds of crafty solutions – but for looking integrated with the rest of your kitchen, few beat corner drawers. These examples help make use of one of the more uncomfortable geometric remnants architects and carpenters run into on a regular basis. In … (via Dornob)

28 Simple Corner Home Office

Simple Corner Home Office (via Little Green Notebook)

29 Better than Besta Corner Shelf System

Better than Besta Corner Shelf System: Materials used: 2 Ikea Besta bookshelves / 1 piece of Alder plywood (4 x 8)/ stain, screws, and glue We recently moved in to our new house in Phoenix area and the corner of our front room was super sad. We lasted about 5 months with this pathetic set up but eventually ran out of (via IKEA Hackers)

30 Designer Lamp

Designer Lamp: Some people see a design they like and ask, “where can I buy that?”. A select few will be inspired to ask themselves, “how can I make that?”. Designer Aritz Bermudez of Creative Farm spotted Peter Bristol’s luminous corner piece, the Established & Sons Corner Light, and realized although the $910 light was out of his league, putting together a DIY facsimile was not… (via Apartment Therapy)