Is there a good way to store things in Kingdoms of Amalur?

In other games I've had to resort to creating storage characters for the purposes stashing items I might find useful in the future, especially when trying to collect sets.

Since Kingdoms is going to have me gathering gems, reagents, items, sets, etc, is there any place I can safely stash what I'm not using?

Eventually you can acquire a house, which when upgraded will have a chest which can store up to 155 items. Apparently over the course of the game you can acquire many such houses, but the first you're likely to find is in Canneroc.

Given that your gems, reagents, and "ingredient" type components stack so nicely in your inventory under their sub-containers, you're unlikely to want to actually stash those. But it's a great place to stash pieces of equipment and all the books you've stolen but not gotten around to reading!