Few things can make as much of an impact on the way your home looks and feels as the way it’s organized. A tidy home is a happy home. While maintaining living spaces that are beautiful, functional, and orderly may seem easy enough, many homeowners find that it’s actually more challenging than it appears. The good news is that you don’t have to be a professional designer or organizer to create rooms that are as comfortable and inviting as they are stylish and organized. Check out these simple tips from the experts at Builders to easily enhance your home’s organization and storage.
Conquer the Clutter
Let’s face it. Keeping your home in order when you have too much stuff is virtually impossible. Along with making it harder to stay organized, clutter can cause even the most attractive home to look smaller, darker, and less welcoming. With this in mind, it’s well worth your time to get rid of the household belongings that your family no longer needs before taking steps to organize the items that are worth holding onto. Whether your living spaces are overflowing with knick knacks or you simply want to take your home to the next level, here are some helpful tips that can make conquering the clutter more manageable:
- Be Strategic: Work with one room at a time. Start in one corner and work your way around in a circle.
- Be Honest: As you sort through your belongings, consider whether each item you come across is something your family needs, uses, or loves. If the answer is “no,” it’s time to let it go.
- Be Accountable: Ask a friend to help you sort through your belongings to determine which items you truly need and which ones can be donated.
Break Rooms into “Zones”
The easier it is to find and put away items in a space, the better. While there are countless ways to organize a single room in your home, creating zones is perhaps the easiest. Breaking a room into zones will let every person who enters it know how the space should be used and make it more comfortable for them as well. The way in which a particular room should be separated depends on the purpose of the room and the needs of your family. For instance, you can create zones in your kitchen that reflect the task that will be performed in specific areas (i.e. pots and pans by the stove, cleaning supplies under the sink, dishes by the dishwasher, etc.).
Another effective way to create zones in a space is by ordering items according to whom they belong. This is a great idea for families with young children and in rooms where functionality is the top priority, such as the entryway or mudroom. When every person in your home has their own hook to hang up their jacket, shelf to store their bag, and basket to keep their shoes, everyone will know exactly where to find their belongings and, most importantly, where to stick them when they’re not being used.
Make the Most of Your Cabinets and Drawers
If there’s one area of every home that could likely be better organized, it’s cabinets and drawers. Because most of the items stored in your bathrooms and kitchen aren’t kept in plain sight, many homeowners don’t prioritize keeping their shelves and drawers as tidy as they could. While it’s easy to shove your toiletries or kitchen essentials in a cabinet and close the door, taking the time to organize your bathrooms and kitchen strategically is a surefire way to make performing everyday tasks more enjoyable and efficient. If you’re unsure of how to better organize your shelves and drawers, don’t fret. Here are some tips to help you get started:
- Bring additional shelves into your cabinets to provide more space to separate items that would otherwise be stacked on top of each other, such as pots and lids.
- Organize items in your cabinets based on how often they’re used. For example, place dishes that are rarely used on the top shelves and everyday dishes on the lower ones that are easy to reach.
- Use turntables to make finding items in the back of your cabinets a breeze, such as spices and condiments.
Give Everything Its Own Home
When items in your home don’t have a specific place to be put away, chances are that they’ll be shifted around and shoved in spots they don’t belong. This can take away from the open, clean ambiance you’re striving to achieve in your living spaces and also make it difficult to know where your belongings may be when you need them. If the closets, shelves, and drawers in your home are disheveled and crowded, it’s time to be more intentional about how and where you store your things. Keep these ideas in mind to ensure that everything in your house how a proper place to call “home:”
- Be sure that items are in the appropriate room. After all, toys shouldn’t be stored in the kitchen and sheets don’t belong in the living room. Create a functional storage space in the room where things will be used.
- Store like items together. Books with books, tools with tools, cleaning supplies with cleaning supplies, etc.
- Add bins, baskets, or containers to keep items together and neatly tucked away.
- Label shelves and containers, so everyone in your home knows where things should go.
Maximize the Organization in Your Home with Builders
If you think that achieving the stylish, orderly home you’ve always wanted is an impossible feat, think again. The trusted team at Builders can help you maximize the storage and organization in virtually any area of your home. With our design knowledge, quality products, and unparalleled service, we look forward to showing you how beautiful and pleasant your home can be when it’s properly organized. Stop by our convenient location or visit us online today to learn more about how you can take your home to the next level!
