Organizational Hacks for Your Home
An organized home is a happy home. When you come home to a clean, organized house, you're able to relax and unwind. However, your home can easily become cluttered because of kids, pets and everyday life, which can lead to frustration. There's nothing like a TV remote being hidden under a pile of laundry after a long day when all you want to do is sit on the couch!
One way you can keep your home organized is by creating a system. You can implement various organizational hacks until they become a habit and you keep your home organized without thinking about it.
12 Home Organization Tips
Transforming your house into a home involves two steps — the first is to fill it with your favorite things, and the second is to designate a space for these items. However, finding a spot for everything can be challenging and may lead to disorganization amid the hustle and bustle of daily life. That's why we've put together these 12 organizational hacks for your home.
1. Invest in Multipurpose Furniture
One of the best organization hacks for your home involves multipurpose furniture. Multipurpose furniture allows you to use a room for more than one purpose. For instance, you can turn a guest bedroom into a home office with a wall bed with a desk. Combining two or more rooms allows you to use your space more efficiently.
Many homes today are open, so the living room, kitchen and dining room are in one big room. Multipurpose furniture can also help you keep your rooms organized. It can offer additional storage for your items and grant you the flexibility to maximize your space.
2. Use the Back of Your Door
You can make the most of your space by using the back of your door. Placing hooks on the back of your door allows you to hang hats or bags. If you place a shoe hanger on the back of your door, you can store shoes or cleaning supplies. A shoe hanger is also helpful for storing bathroom items, like hairbrushes, curling irons, flat irons and blow dryers.
3. Decorate With Storage Baskets
Storage baskets are decorative and functional. You can store loose items in the baskets to keep them out of sight and out of mind. For example, you can place a couple of storage baskets on top of or inside your entertainment center and use them to store spare console batteries or wires.
4. Install Wall Shelves
If you're dealing with limited space, one of the best organizational tips for small spaces involves using wall shelves. Utilizing wall space gets the items off your floor. You can organize and display them with built-in shelves or a wall organization system. For instance, you could organize books and knick-knacks on wall shelves, peg walls for kitchen organization or wall hooks for your tools and other items in your garage.
5. Label Your Items
Sometimes finding what you're looking for can seem like searching for a needle in a haystack. Instead of digging through all your drawers, you can label your items. You can label your kitchen drawers, canisters, cabinets, spices and anything else that would benefit your organizational efforts.
6. Use Tension Rods
Tension rods are excellent for getting things out of the way in tight spaces. For example, you can place them in the cabinet under your sink and store your cleaning supplies. You can hang various chemicals or attach paper towel rolls to them to clear off your countertops.
7. Store Loose Lids
Storage containers come with lids of all shapes and sizes that quickly become disorganized. But storage containers are incredibly helpful for storing leftovers, so you don't want to toss them when they become disorganized. Instead, a popular organizational hack for your home is to hang a mail holder in your cabinet to store your lids. Organizing them like this lets you quickly find what you're looking for.
8. Dinner Bins in the Fridge
One way to organize your fridge is by using the bins to store dinner ingredients. When you put all the ingredients you need for a meal in one drawer, you can easily access the drawer and your ingredients. Keeping the ingredients separated lets you make your meals more efficiently, which is useful after a long workday.
9. Keep a Shopping List
As you go about your day, you may notice that you're running low on something, only to forget what it was later. Keeping a grocery shopping list can help you remember what you need. You can buy a magnet shopping list for your fridge and write down the items you need while thinking about them.
10. Organize Your Bathroom Drawers and Cabinets
Bathroom drawers and cabinets store small items that can become cluttered. Luckily, you can keep your bathroom drawers neat with a kitchen drawer insert. The sections of a silverware drawer are perfect for storing toothbrushes, toothpaste, razors, chapstick, clippers, deodorant, floss and other items.
You can also store metal items, like nail clippers and scissors, on magnets that you stick to your bathroom cabinet. If your bathroom cabinet isn't metal, you can use double-sided tape or glue to stick the magnets where you want them.
11. Get a Computer Shelf
A computer shelf provides many benefits — it raises your laptop to a comfortable height and offers additional storage space underneath it. You can stash documents and other desk clutter under the shelf to keep your desk clean.
12. Mark Your Keys
One person can have lots of keys — including car, house, garage, lawnmower and shed keys. When all the keys look alike, you can spend minutes trying various keys in your lock before finding the right one. An excellent way to organize your keys is by using nail polish to color code them. You can paint an inconspicuous dot on your key and its corresponding lock. Then, you won't have to hunt for the correct key anymore.
Organize Your Home With Resource Furniture
Decluttering and organizing your home is a rewarding experience. It can be challenging to know where to start, but the result is well worth it. Once your home is organized, it can feel more welcoming and relaxing. And the best way to start is with multipurpose furniture.
Having extra storage space can make organizing your home much easier. We offer various multifunctional furniture and storage solutions to help you declutter and organize your household.
You can browse our blog for more tips on organizing your home or explore our products by visiting one of our showrooms. We can't wait to show you the furniture that can help you organize your home.
