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Keeping your home clutter-free is essential to creating a space that is relaxing, clean, healthy, and a haven. With busy lifestyles with work and families, it is very easy for your home to get cluttered, especially with kids. There can be times when you can’t be bothered after a long day of work, but the more clutter mounts up, the more there is to sort out. Spending an hour or so on tidying clutter daily can prevent spending a whole day, or sometimes a weekend, on sorting clutter.
Use these organizational hacks for keeping a clutter-free home to have the best solutions to keep your home tidy, making it easier to stay on top of clutter daily.
Dedicate an area for junk
Junk can very easily accumulate at various places within your home. Whether at the front door, near the TV, or stored away in a drawer, junk can scatter everywhere and create a messy home. It is best to keep junk in one small space. This means choosing what junk may actually be useful and throwing the rest in the trash.
You can use a small drawer, or make your own set of small drawers using MDF cut to size, to store junk in. To ensure this doesn’t get messy and overcrowded with items, store little pieces in a tin and use small containers for everything else. You could even use a drawer organizer if you prefer. Using these limits what you can store, making it tidy, clutter-free, and easier to get rid of items no longer needed.
Use desk organizers
If you have a home office or a desk for activities, you can keep all your items stored safely and neatly by using desk organizers. This prevents clutter on the desk and keeps the room looking tidy. You can’t efficiently use a cluttered desk whether that’s for work or play. Opting for magnetic organizers can be a great solution to ensure items, such as paperclips and board tacks, don’t get lost as they stick to the surface.
Try stackable storage
Limit your storage solutions to one area of your home by using stackable storage containers or bins. These can come in various sizes to store different items that may not have a home, such as bed linen and books. They can keep items that clutter your home away from being on display and contain them in one place as they stack neatly on top of each other. They can be good for clothes and accessories too, so you can maximize your closet space or store seasonal clothing away when they’re not needed.
Organize your kitchen
Organizing your kitchen is paramount as this space is easily cluttered daily. You could have limited space to store pots, pans, and dishes or find items cluttering workspaces daily. Plus, the washing up always mounts up which adds to the clutter. There are a few ways to keep your kitchen clean and tidy which are:
- Wash and dry dishes regularly
- Have a hanging pot rack
- Use drawer dividers
- Tidy countertops
- Create an organized pantry that works for you and your family
- Replace knife blocks with a magnetic strip on the wall
- Tidy your coffee station.
Make a clutter cabinet
Dedicate a cabinet to store home accessories that usually don’t have a home. This can be books, magazines, centerpieces, candles that aren’t ready for use yet, batteries, and remotes. You can stack items neatly on the shelves and hide smaller items in drawers to keep your living area tidy. On top of the cabinet, you can add ornaments, pictures, flowers in vases, seasonal items, and meaningful items to bring your personality into the room and have a happy space.
Invest in storage-friendly furniture
Investing in storage-friendly furniture is a great way to give your home more storage solutions while hiding it. The storage is hidden under or in the furniture to keep every room looking tidy, rather than having boxes stacked in the corner. You could have a bed that offers storage underneath is perfect for storing bedding and seasonal clothes. These beds can either be lifted for storage or have hidden drawers that you can’t see when you glance. You could also opt for an ottoman with storage, nightstands with drawers, or even tall bookshelves.
Use the box method
To reduce the clutter in your home, you should use the box method. This is where you grab three boxes and label them put away, donate/sell, and for storing. Take a trash can along too so you can be decisive on what to keep and what you don’t need anymore. Go through items one by one and think about if they’re useful for you now and if they serve a purpose. Think about your feelings about the items and go with your gut instinct. Place each item into a box, ensuring you have an even spread to avoid keeping every single thing.
Store seasonally
Rotate your seasonal items, particularly in your closet. Bring forward the clothing you need for the season you are in, putting other seasonal clothing to the back. If you have a lot of clothes, consider storing clothing you don’t need for the season in vacuum-sealed bags, containers, or drawers. When sorting your wardrobe, see what you have and think about items you can give away, sell, or throw away to keep it minimal.
Find items homes
Many items can clutter worktops, drawer tops, and random places without having a home. Find these items homes and if there isn’t one, make one! You could do this daily by finding five items that don’t have homes and putting them in a place where they can stay. This is useful to keep clutter to a minimum as well as sticking to those places for those items, maintaining a tidy home. Items such as remotes, keys, notebooks, pens, and important letters are the usual suspects that hang around the home with no homes.
Try these organizational hacks for keeping a clutter-free home to ensure you keep a tidy and clean home. Your home should be your haven where you can kick back and relax, so using these storage solutions can give you that important aspect of your home. Once these solutions are in place, it will be easier to keep on top of your clutter.
