I spent 2 nights in a 212-square-foot tiny home. Here are 6 genius storage hacks I'm stealing for my 1,200-square-foot house.

I convinced two friends to join me for a stay in one of WeeCasa's tiny houses, which cost $179 a night.

We stayed in Juniper, a 212-square-foot home with an open layout, a lofted bed, and several clever storage hacks that made the space feel bigger.

I think I timed my stay in a tiny house perfectly. This fall, I moved into a 1,200-square-foot home with my roommate.

We're still organizing the space and looking to add smart storage solutions to keep our small home feeling spacious, and I'm excited to implement some of what I saw in the tiny house.

Eight cubbies ranging in size fit underneath the stairwell in the tiny house.

During our stay, we used them for storing groceries, luggage, towels, and toiletries.

My roommate and I hope to use our basement to store everything from our outdoor gear to our craft supplies. A clever shelving system underneath our staircase would be a great place to start.

If we built the storage unit ourselves, I think we could tailor the cubbies to our belongings.

WeeCasa provides its guests with cups, mugs, plates, and most items needed for cooking and eating.

There was a shelf in one corner of the kitchen with just enough room for four plates, four bowls, four glasses, and four mugs.

The mugs, however, had clever shelf placement: WeeCasa had drilled four hooks into the bottom of the shelf, and each mug hung below.

This hack freed up shelf space for dinnerware that you couldn't hang.

My roommate and I are quickly filling up our cabinets in our kitchen. Any more mugs and our shelves would overflow.

Incorporating the tiny house's under-cabinet mug hooks would give us more space to store plates, cups, and other dinnerware.

The handrail leading up to the lofted bedroom appeared to be made from a metal pipe and was consequently thinner and closer to the wall than a conventional handrail.

It was nice to have as much room as possible climbing up the narrow stairs while still having something to hold onto.

My roommate and I have debated whether or not we want to add a handrail to our narrow staircase at home.

The tiny house proved that you could have a handrail without sacrificing much of a staircase's space.

Because the bathroom shower had a wire instead of a traditional, straight curtain rod, making the curtain perfectly fit the shower.

My roommate and I looked into curved shower rods that would give us extra space inside the shower, but we couldn't find one we loved.

While we haven't figured out how to attach a wire to a middle point on our ceiling, we think there's potential for the tiny house's shower-curtain system to work in our bathroom.

Besides the front door, the only other door in the tiny house was a pocket door the led to the bathroom.

In the back of our house, we have an area where my roommate and I both work from home.

While one of us is on a call, the other typically moves to our dining-room table. It'd be nice to have a barrier between our office and kitchen, which we hope would soften the sound of our work calls.

We don't want a door that swings in and out, and a pocket door seems like a great solution that doesn't take up walking space.

I initially thought the tiny-house designer found a narrow dresser for the home, but I later learned that they repurposed a narrow shoe cabinet for storing clothes and blankets.

I thought it worked great in the space. It allowed for a little extra storage without taking up a significant portion of the living area.

My bedroom doesn't have enough space for a traditionally sized dresser, so I had ruled that out until I stepped foot into the tiny home.

Now I realized that I can still have storage in this area of my bedroom — I just have get creative and find the right narrow piece of furniture.

I expected to feel cramped and claustrophobic in the tiny house, but smart storage solutions helped make the home feel spacious.

My goal in my current home is to keep it feeling spacious and open, so I plan to incorporate the storage tricks I learned throughout my 1,200-square-foot home.