Starting Your Room-by-Room Home Organization Efforts

The concept of home organization is easy to grasp. It’s just rearranging a few items and cutting down on clutter, right? Yes and no. Yes, you’re cutting back on the clutter in your home and doing some reorganizing, but it’s easier said than done. Once you get down to actually starting your organization efforts, you may find that the task at hand is more difficult than you envisioned. 

There are steps you can take to make the process easier and improve your home organization efforts along the way. Not only will you keep your clutter more contained, but you will feel like your house has been renovated by the time you’ve gone through every room in the house.

Start Sorting and Organizing the Room You Use Least

You may think that you would start your home organization efforts with the most used room in the house, but it’s actually more conducive to start with the one used least. Essentially, you can use this as an opportunity to test your sorting methodology and try new organization strategies to see what sticks without the stress of anyone seeing the results right away. 

Often we see our home organization efforts as something that others will view, adding an element of stress and potentially leading to rushed decisions. Beginning your home organization journey in a room that gets less foot traffic gives you extra time to visualize the road ahead and how to tackle different types of clutter. 

Decluttering Like You’re Moving Out

When you begin the decluttering process, pretend like you’re packing up your room to prepare to move. Moving involves packing everything up into organized boxes (usually), then cleaning the room to prepare for the new occupants. Similarly, your decluttering efforts tend to mimic these steps and give you an easily-relatable method of moving elements of your home to new locations or sorting them into piles for further organization efforts. 

Different Rooms Require Different Home Organization Methods

Organization and storage go hand-in-hand. Different rooms have different storage methods though. The laundry room or bathroom can use open baskets for certain items, while some food items in the kitchen can be placed in mason jars. Assess the room and its layout before making your choice, but ensure you have storage that fits the space, physically and visually. 

Storage Spaces Across Your House

Some rooms are better used as storage spaces than others by nature. Your house has more storage locations than you may think, with closets, baskets, and bins only a step away in most cases. 

Closets

These aren’t just the perfect place to hang clothes, but also a great place to store boxes and other items. Closets are multipurpose locations that can pack many items into a smaller, tucked away space. Use hooks to hang necklaces, robes, and hoodies. Utilize shelves to store outfits, laundry, or other small items. Finally, keep shoes and boxes on the floor to keep them easily in reach and movable as needed. 

Playrooms

Baskets and bins are your friends! Store similar toys together in baskets or bins with clear labels so your kids have an easier time knowing where everything is stored and where to place them when they’re done playing. These tubs, bins, and baskets can be easily stored in closets or designated corners of the room to make the space feel more open and clutter-free. 

Bedrooms

Bedrooms don’t usually have an excessive amount of clutter, but they do tend to collect clothes, blankets, towels, and the occasional item. Storage benches can be placed at the foot of the bed and not only look good, but are a great place to store blankets, towels, and clothes. If you need extra storage space for smaller items like extra clothes, you could always place them under the bed. Just don’t forget where you left them! 

Bathroom

Bathrooms collect lots of items, from medicine to towels and toiletries. Your sink likely has plenty of shelves for smaller items, but baskets, shelves, and lazy susans can be used for easy and effective storage. You can store extra items under the sink and in drawers as needed. 

Living and Dining Room

These locations benefit from shelves more than other rooms, especially because they are often more open than other rooms in the home. Use baskets for blankets and magazines, small holders for remotes, hidden storage like ottomans for certain room essentials, and shelves for anything extra. 

Kitchen

Shelves on shelves, drawers, pantries, whatever helps reduce the clutter and keep you organized is the way to go. Organize all your drawers and pantries around similar items, like cutlery and food, while shelves and cupboards can hold the larger items like plates and glasses. Keep certain essentials like cleaning supplies under the sink and any extra items can go in shelves or near places like the sink or oven, depending on the type of item. 

Keeping Yourself On-Task During Home Organization

Reorganization can be overwhelming, as it takes a lot of effort and brain power to determine the right location for different items, pick them up, sort them, then put them where you decided they should go. This is a time-consuming process that can make even the most organizational-minded individual pause to consider how much they want to invest into this task.

The benefits of organization go beyond keeping your home decluttered. You’ll find yourself more focused on the task at hand and feel a sense of reward and accomplishment for completing a room reorganization. Utilizing reorganization services can make it even easier to envision the project before you get started. This is where Tranquil Transitions can make a difference. 

The state of your home can get out of hand sometimes, it happens to everyone. Clutter piles up before we realize it and we are unfortunately left with the task of cleaning up after ourselves. Tranquil Transitions makes this sorting and organization process much easier with our team of experts leading the charge. We help you determine what can stay, what should go, and adjust the rooms to fit their more organized appearance once we’re done. For a house-wide transformation, nobody does it better than Tranquil Transitions.