Tips For How to Organize Your Home
October 4, 2019
Preparation
Organizing your home will go more smoothly if you first prepare the space you’re focusing on. The process may take a little longer this way, but it will be the most effective and help you achieve better results.
Remove everything from the space you plan to organize
Clearing out the space you’re working with will not only make organizing much easier, but it also helps create a blank slate for you to work with. This will allow you to better assess the area and plan how you’ll organize all of your items. So, start clearing out your space so you can make the most of it later.
Purge your unwanted and unused items
This step is very important for getting organized and staying organized. Getting rid of unnecessary items that you never use can help make room for other more important items, or just clear out some much needed space. If it’s stained, damaged, or broken then throw it out. And if you’re looking through your things and notice you haven’t used it in forever, get rid of it. In order to make the most out of a space and be as functional as possible, it needs to be free of clutter.
Let’s Start Organizing
Now that you’ve prepared your things and the space you’re going to be organizing, it’s time to get started. Keep in mind that organizing helps to declutter your home, and make it more functional for the whole family. Use these tips as a guideline and you should have no problem figuring out how to organize your home.
Keep Like Items Together
Grouping similar items together will help make your home more functional. For instance, cooking would be a lot more difficult if you kept spices in multiple different spots. You wouldn’t want to keep your spices in numerous different locations because that would create more work for you. This is also true for bathroom supplies and office supplies. Organizing your belongings by keeping like items together can help improve your home’s efficiency and functionality.
Make Items Easily Accessible
In order to make your items easy to access, you’ll want to organize them with storage bins or containers, and label them. Storage bins and containers will help keep all of your like items together. It gives your things a home and makes it easier for you to find them. Using labels will help inform you about the items that are in your containers. This will help you avoid rummaging through all of your bins to find certain items, which can be a time consuming and ineffective process.
Another way to make your items easily accessible is by organizing tubs and bins according to how often you use those items. If you’re using your cleaning supplies frequently, make sure that wherever you decide to put them, they’re easy to get to. This is also important when you’re organizing your closet. When the seasons change you should move your clothes around to accommodate this which will make getting dressed in the morning much easier. And when you’re organizing items on a shelf, make sure your most used items are in the front. Don’t forget, you should be organizing to improve efficiency and functionality.
Keeping Your Home Organized
Keeping up with your newly organized home can be difficult at times. Sometimes we get busy and forget to put things back. But, letting this happen over and over will undo all of the hard work you’ve accomplished. So, be sure to put items back when you’re done using them. Ensuring that all of your items have a home and remain in their home when they aren’t being used will help you maintain organization.
House Cleaning
Now that you know how to organize your home and keep it that way, you’re ready to utilize your home to it’s fullest potential. Another big part of organizing is house cleaning. In order to maintain organization, you need to maintain a clean and clutter free home. The experts at American Housekeeping can help you maintain a clean home with our house cleaning services so you can focus on other priorities. Connect with us for a free housekeeping quote!