Want to know some home organizing tricks from the pros? Here are 5 Essential Tips to help organize your home
It's easy to get frustrated by your home sometimes. Yes, it's home, but all the stuff in it just seems to, well, pile up! Where does it all come from?
Keeping your home clean and organized is a daily chore, but knowing some tricks can cut down on some of your stress and frustration. Professional Organizers spend all day, every day, organizing people's homes, so it stands to reason they'd find some handy storage tricks and shortcuts for the rest of us. Here's some tips from the pros that we all might find useful!
- Don't Use Circles- You know those circular wicker baskets you've got all over your house? Logically, they're not very effective. Just because something is touted as a "storage bin" for organizing doesn't mean it's good. Square shapes naturally hold a wider variety of objects and can be stored and stacked more effectively than circle ones. So if you've got a ton of circular baskets, you might want to replace them with square shapes. They'll hold more, and actually fit into your corners!
- Consider Every Space As Usable- Sometimes this can mean thinking outside the box. If you really need a home office but you're out of room, what about using a closet? Putting some French doors up and installing some wall shelving could turn this narrow space into a perfectly usable home office. And you'd have the added benefit of being able to shut it all away when you were done. Our lesson here? Get creative! This can be a very inexpensive, easy option.
- Hide When You Have To- If you need to have a filing cabinet downstairs but hate looking at it, then hide it! Buy a round glass top to go on top and then drape a tablecloth over it. Viola! Now you've got a pretty end table AND a filing cabinet!
- Use Color For Easy ID- You know how every season Target comes out with colored bins? Red and Green at Christmas, orange at Halloween, pastel at Easter, and so on. Well, hop on their bandwagon! Buying a bin in these colors can help you organize that season's decorations. You won't have to label and you'll know by looking which season you're trying to find.
- Think About Your Space, And How You Use It- This trick might go without saying, but it will behoove us to bring it up just in case. The stuff you use most should be within easy reach so you can get to it quickly. Things that you don't use that often should be way up high, way down low, or packed away. Be brutal when you start to declutter your things! If you can't get rid of it, then put it where it belongs- immediate, high, or low. The less "stuff" you have out in your home, the bigger and calmer it will look.
Good luck, and happy organizing!
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