How to Organize Your Home Room by Room

Organizing your home can be a challenging task. If you start to have trouble finding your things or “get used to the mess,” then it means that more rigorous efforts are necessary, specifically doing a room-by-room sweep.

More often than not, answering some simple questions and doing a visual inspection will point out where you need to start when reorganizing a particular room in your house. Here are some questions to ask yourself:

• What is the room’s intended purpose?
• Is that room being used for its intended purpose?
• Is it comfortable to do what’s intended to be done in that particular room?
• What’s affecting how you use the room?

By answering these simple questions, you will figure out the problem points that need to be resolved, and the particular approach you must take. To give you a more concrete idea of how to do this, here’s a comprehensive guide for organizing your home room by room.

When it comes to your bedroom, the main thing to consider here is comfort. It's the room where you relax, and sleep—so it’s important to make it as comfortable as possible. As mentioned in an article by the Spruce, it’s difficult to sleep in a room that’s covered in clutter so you will need to make the most of your space.

Make sure that your bed is the focal point—it’s called a “bedroom” after all. If there are too many elements that take away from your bed, then either get rid of them or move them around. If your bed isn’t the main aspect of your bedroom, then you may experience a feeling of uneasiness. Remember—by no means should you work in your bedroom! This can create a lingering aura of stress, disabling you from separating your work life from your home life.

Bedrooms often have a lot of closets and drawers, which is often where you keep all of your personal things. After ensuring that the main room is comfortable enough to rest in, focus on organizing the available storage space.

In Four Tips for Organizing your Custom Closets, Clever Closets advises to group the items in each closet and map out where you’ll be placing them. A good rule of thumb is to keep what you use often easily visible and accessible and to keep what you don’t use regularly stashed towards the back. If you find that you don’t use particular items at all, then it’s best either to move them to a separate room or donate them to charity.

The kitchen is typically one of the most active and messiest rooms in a house. This is where food is kept, prepped, and (sometimes) hastily eaten so it’s important to leave this area tidy and clutter-free. Efficiency will be the guiding factor when organizing your kitchen, as any delays in food preparation will usually be met with a lot of frustration and annoyance.

As such, it’s important to identify which appliances are used the most on a daily basis. These items have to be easily accessible and must have a lot of nearby counter space to allow for quick food preparation and plating (if necessary). Next will be to fix the contents of the cupboards and drawers. It’s important to categorize the contents so as to avoid any confusion when looking for particular items while cooking. The easier it is for you to prepare meals, the happier your family will be!

The pantry is often considered a “mere” stockroom of dry goods and other specialized cooking implements. While that may be the case, it’s also important to have a plan when it comes to using it effectively.

Take some time to organize and categorize each of the items according to their frequency of use and expiration dates. This will make it easier for you to this space and help avoid wasting food in the process. One additional tool you could add is a whiteboard by the door to help you account for what you’ll need to buy before running to the grocery store.

The average garage has three uses: 1) to store your car, 2) to act as a secondary storage space, and 3) to house a small workbench. As such, when organizing your garage, you will need to prioritize safety and space.

Safety and space go hand in hand as an overfilled garage can become a safety hazard. Furthermore, if you’re not careful where you keep your things, they may fall, break, make a mess, or you may lose them entirely.

When using the garage as a secondary storage room, remember to keep only items that you use often and need to be outside your main home. If you find that certain items only have a yearly use, then they may be better stored in your basement or attic.

Laundry rooms are often messy because of all the foot traffic and dirty clothes dumped in there. However, organizing this space is relatively simple as all you’ll need to do is to assign areas for everything. The tips below can also be applied to smaller-sized laundry rooms as well.

There are usually four major sections in a laundry room: the dumping area, the sorting area, the washing area, and the folding area (sometimes the sorting and folding are done on the same table). Make sure these sections are clearly identified so as not to make a mess in the future. It will also help to set up several bins for easy sorting (one for colors, one for whites, and one for delicates, for example). If space allows, install an extra hanging rod for clothes that need to air dry.

Attics and basements are typically used as storage spaces for large pieces of furniture, equipment, as well as seasonal décor. However, you may have fallen into the trap of using this area as a dumping ground for odds and ends that should go directly in the trash.

Given that, the mindset when fixing such rooms should be to purge. If there are items you haven’t used in a few years, then either donate or toss them. If the items are broken but reparable, then consider if it’s worth the repair cost as compared to buying new. Once done, the next thing to do is organize.

It will help to assign particular sections to the room, as this will allow you to easily navigate when you need to get something out of storage. The easiest way would be to divide the room into quarters, using the “back quarters” for items that you won’t need as often and the ones closer to the entrance for things that are used more frequently.

• https://www.customclosetsmichigan.com/closet-organization-tips
• https://www.thespruce.com/how-to-organize-your-small-bedroom-4126047