Here are some cool tips and ideas for organizing your home.
1. Storage Solutions For Organizing Kitchen, Closet, Bathroom, Laundry, Garage, Craft, Home Entertainment
Looking for neat ideas for making things tidier? This article from Buzzfeed offers 52 clever solutions covering every room in your house.
Some are not exactly pretty, some will take more time than they’re worth, but many are nifty ways to keep things looking nice and feeling organized.
For instance,
- Install a rail under your sink for cleaning products
- Use a deep kitchen drawer to store utensils vertically
- Store matching sheet sets inside their pillowcases.
Clutter-Avoidance Tip
I would add a warning: Don’t install any kind of storage that will encourage you to keep or buy more stuff than you need or love.
2. Make Your Home Paperless
If you want to reduce paper clutter in your home, this post by Lifehacker will help.
It offers ways to digitize your:
- Documents
- Photos
- Books and magazines
- Receipts.
3. Home-Organizing Apps
This post by SiliconAngle reviews several apps that help you have a more organized home, including:
- BrightNest, which helps you organize your documents, manuals, and home info
- 52 Organizing Missions, my own iPad app for decluttering, simplifying, and organizing your home.
4. Multi-Purpose-Room Organization
If you have a single room that has multiple functions – living, dining, home-entertainment, home-office – it’s a challenge to make the space both functional and attractive.
Apartment Therapy’s post has some lovely inspiration for using zones and clever storage ideas to create a very practical yet gorgeous space.
Anything For You?
Do you like any of these ideas?
Do you have more to add?
Please let me know in the comments!
Want To Declutter And Organize Your Home?
You might like to start here.
Many are clever ways to maintain things feeling and appearing pleasant, even though some are not very pretty or will take more work than they’re worth.
Great post! Home organization is a key aspect of creating a comfortable and functional living space. Storage tricks such as utilizing under-bed storage or using vertical space with shelves and hooks can help maximize space and keep clutter at bay. Going paperless with bills and documents can also help reduce paper clutter and simplify your life. Using home apps can assist with organizing schedules, grocery lists, and even home automation. Multi-purpose rooms can also be a great way to save space, such as using a guest room as a home office or workout space. By implementing these organization tips and tricks, you can create a more streamlined and enjoyable living space.
Hey! it’s a challenge to make the space both functional and attractive.
I liked that you pointed out that it would be smart to get a multi-purpose room that you can put stuff in. It might be a good idea to get a storage unit as well. That way, you could put season things in there. I know that I don’t need my snowblower at my home year round.
I love that you mentioned that it would be best to never have any storage item that can entice you to get more things such as clothes. I guess I failed that part that is why I have a lot of shoes these days. Until now, the shoe rack that I bought still has a lot of spaces to be filled. With that in mind, I would have to replace it with another one, but, this time, I would seek professional help since I really suck at this.
I’ve come to the conclusion that I have way too much stuff in my home and I really need to organize things. I have a lot of paper clutter and as you said, it would be a good idea to see about digitizing everything so that way, it reduces all of that space taken up by them. I’ll probably see about doing that as it will also make it easier to search and find things on my computer, than going through a bunch of filing cabinets.
Great!
oh dear, as I read your email today I can hardly see my desk top. perhaps I should start there. I keep starting this de clutter thing but life keeps getting busy and I only get so far and then it snowballs again. would you like to move in for a month Michelle? I am sure you would have a ball and a nice Australian holiday too. I guess I really need to get moving on it today. thanks for the reminder.
oh dear, as I read your email today I can hardly see my desk top. perhaps I should start there. I keep starting this de clutter thing but life keeps getting busy and I only get so far and then it snowballs again. would you like to move in for a month Michelle? I am sure you would have a ball and a nice Australian holiday too. I guess I really need to get moving on it today. thanks for the reminder.
LOL Chris – it’s an ongoing challenge, isn’t it? Doing a little every day is the sane and sustainable way to make progress. These are some of my favorite quick tips: http://www.getorganizedwizard.com/blog/2011/08/7-ways-to-clutter-proof-your-life/ Good luck my friend!