16 Organization Tips For Your Home Purge, purge, purge. Give away, re-purpose, or throw away anything you’re not using regularly or no longer need. Invite friends and family to help you when organizing the home. More hands mean less work and more fun. Contain it! Use baskets, vintage suitcases, crocks, tins, cubbies, shelves, canisters, furniture, blanket chests, hatboxes, bins, and caddies to contain everything you have. Hang it up. Use decorative wall hooks, mounted pegs, pegboards, pot/pan racks, quilt racks, etc. to display, store, and organize your favorite items. Make the mudroom work for the entire family. Give each member of the family a basket or bin for their shoes, backpacks, sports equipment, outerwear, and umbrellas. Photo boxes can be used for photos, but so much more! Store receipts, children’s toys, recipes, baseball cards, craft items, or blank cards and notes in these attractive boxes that come in just about every style, color and size. Stacking shelves can be used to stretch your storage space by a few inches or more than a foot. Use them in the kitchen, pantry, bathroom, garage, shed, basement, or child’s room Vintage trays display and contain jewelry, loose change, medications, or other small items. Jewelry is attractively stored on a vintage 3-tier dessert tray on the bedroom vanity or dresser. Re-purpose a radiator grate (or buy one new at your local hardware store), frame it, and hang necklaces and earrings on it. Find an old mailbox at a garage sale or thrift store – paint it and then use it outside to store your child’s sidewalk chalk, jump ropes, or bubbles. Create a family messaging and schedule center in a central room of the home. Include a large calendar, message board, note pads, pens and pencils, and the phone. Use rolling carts to store scrap booking supplies, craft supplies, laundry detergents, and other items so they can be pulled out when needed, but otherwise rolled back into place and out of the way. Garages can be re-claimed for parking the car too. Use steel shelving to organize everything in the garage. Use the open beams above to store larger items. Hang bicycles from large hooks in the ceiling or beams during off-season months. Vintage coffee cans, tool boxes, and other unconventional storage containers work well for small or unusually shaped items. (Think outside the box!) Pass on magazines you’ve already read and no longer need. Trade magazines with a friend. The key is to keep the magazines from piling up in your home. Placing hooks or a basket for keys right inside the door will ensure keys won’t be lost.
Posted on: Fri, 26 Jul 2013 14:07:00 +0000