Home Decor: Decorating Ideas for an Organized Home

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Home Organization – Get Rid of Holiday Clutter

Over the holidays, your family gets a lot of presents – food gifts, toys, tech gadgets, and even clothes. Tell everyone in your home to get a garbage bag and put in all the items they don’t need. You can donate them to a local charity or a donation site.

If you have lots of Christmas decorations, decide whether you want to keep them all. Sort them and give the ones you don’t want to Goodwill or your local thrift shop. Store useful decorations in clear plastic containers for easy access. You can use plastic tubs as they hold more items.

Cleaning Tips: Renew your Dining Table & Furniture

Heavy entertaining can take its toll on your dining table. After the holiday parties, your beautiful table may be covered in smudges, nicks, dirt, and a lot more. The harsh winter weather can also wreak havoc on it, leaving it looking dull. Dust, shine, and recondition your dining table with a gentle detergent. Choose one that protects wood from wear and tear and use it to clean your other wood furnishings.

Odor Eliminator: Get Rid of Unwanted Smells

While rearranging your home might be your first priority, holiday smells can linger long after you’ve cleaned. Your house can smell of visitors’ perfumes and pungent holiday dishes. To ensure you get rid of these smells, use a deodorizer or a natural scent like cinnamon. You can also light scented candles. Put flowers in vases and place them throughout your home. The kitchen, bathroom, children’s play areas, and laundry room are often the culprits of stray and foul odors. Look to these rooms first.

Nothing feels as good as starting a new year in a condition of organized optimism. Before you become engrossed by the activities of January, take time to reorganize your home. Implement a few organizational strategies to ensure you get back on track quickly. You never know, these decorating and organization tips may be the best gift you give yourself this New Year!

How will you start to declutter your home this New Year?

Home Organization: 5 Tips to Destress After a Long Vacation

The most annoying part is probably organizing the living place including unpacking, laundry, creating to do lists, shopping, and many more. We’ve rounded up 5 tips for home organization that will help you get settled after a long vacation:

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Return a Day Earlier

What you must have to get organized after your return in time. Most people plan for a Sunday night return to home in order to maximize the vacation time. But, you should not do that. Plan for an earlier-than-last-minute return such as on Saturday or Friday. This will exempt you from jumping into loads of work just after returning home. Plan for an early return and get enough time for unpacking, picking up a few groceries, handling the emails, and giving yourself some quiet time.

Unload the Car

Unload your car right away unless it is midnight, you are very tired, and all you want to do is to jump into the bed right away. But, unload it as soon as you get home. It will save your time and trouble later.

Handle Chores Right Away

Some of the things in your home also need attention right away, if you have been gone for a while. Your swimming pool may be overflowing or your windows may have gathered so much dirt. So, you have to clean them before starting cleaning the rest of the house. After completing the emergency chores, make a list of other important things to be done

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Do the Laundry

This is an important task to do because you must have a lot of dirty laundry during the vacation. It is actually one of the less challenging tasks to get started with. Start doing this chore as soon as possible and once the washer is going, you can go out and check other important things like if the grasses in the lawn have become too big or if a tree has fallen in the backyard.

Give Yourself a Day Off

Never start working or become freaked out about the upcoming loads of work just after returning from the vacation because coming home can be exhausting. So, give yourself a day to relax, plan, and focus on your home organization to-do list without becoming anxious of anything. It is the day to get reacquainted with your routines.

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Home organization is always a bit tough and doing that while you are still basking in the holiday afterglow is even harder. However, these tips will help you get started and go through the process gradually without stressing yourself out.

Do you think these tips will help you after your summer vacation?

Home Organization: How to Declutter Your Laundry Room

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Build a Workstation

To keep the laundry room decluttered and organized, you have to build or designate a workstation. A proper workstation will save time and keep the mess scattering around the floor. Instead of piling up the clean clothes on your dryer’s tiny surface, use a workstation combined with a tiny table, a foldout shelf, and a built-in counter. Use them for folding or holding clothes and other accessories. Especially, a built-in shelf can be very handy in keeping the folded linens organized in neat stacks. Don’t forget to clean them on a regular basis.

Keep the Tiny Items Organized

Besides being a place for washing and cleaning clothes and shoes, a laundry room is the place for repairing these things too. So, the things like scrub brush, bleach pen, and the kits for stain removal, shoe care, and minor sewing repairs should be stored there at the hand’s reach. Keep these things in separate boxes on the lowest shelf for easy reach. For popped buttons, loose change, and other smaller things, a catchall will be perfect. You can also use a shower caddy to hold these things because it will be easy to grab and carry.

Rolling Hamper for Tossed up Items

A rolling hamper can save the laundry room floor from the mess of tossed up items. Such a hamper is so roomy that you can throw literally all the dirty clothes without feeling overwhelmed. However, keep a separate bin for items like muddy socks or sweaty workout clothes because it will be better not to mix them with other items.

Shelves for Ultimate Organization

Shelves are a wonderful solution in both keeping the clutter out and holding the clothes and other items in order. You can use any type – adjustable wire shelving, open shelves, or closet-shelves. Keep separate things in each shelf for grab-and-go. For example, keep drying sweaters in one shelf, towels in another one, and the other for stacks of folded clothing.

These home organization tips will give you new inspiration for doing a makeover of your laundry room. You will be able to keep everything necessary for cleaning and caring of your clothing in one place. They will also save your time and the precious space of that relatively smaller area.

Do you have any home organization ideas you use in your laundry room?

If you spent this past winter begrudgingly cleaning off a snowy car because there wasn’t enough room to store it in the garage, you are not alone. For many, the garage becomes a catch-all for items that don’t seem to have a defined space elsewhere in the house. But this method means that things can get disorganized rather quickly. If this sounds too familiar, get a jumpstart on your spring cleaning with these garage organization tips.

Helpful Garage Organization Tips for your Spring Home

Start Fresh:

The first step toward having any organized room is becoming aware of what you’re working with. Pick a nice day and start by clearing all of the clutter out of your garage. From there, give it a good scrub down – sweep the floor, wipe down shelves, bat away the cobwebs. Then, before you put anything back, go through all your items. Be honest about what you’ll continue to use and what can be recycled. Consider a yard sale if you have an abundance of things that aren’t needed anymore.

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Go Vertical:

A lack of space is one of the most common obstacles toward organization. Luckily, garages offer some unusual storage options. If the floor gets too crowded, think vertical. Tall shelving units or cabinets are perfect for storing smaller items. However, even larger things can be lifted. Many sporting good stores stock wall-mounted hooks for things like bikes or kayaks. Even if outdoor sports aren’t your thing, you can repurpose the same racks to hold kids toys or lawn care items.

Group Think:

Now that you know how you plan to store things, the next step is to figure out where everything goes. Your best bet is to store like items together, since you may need to use them at the same time. For instance: put all your gardening paraphernalia on one shelf and your sporting gear on another. Household tools are a good fit for a workbench, if you have one. Wherever you put things, once you use a certain item, just be sure to put it back in the same spot where you found it.

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Love Labels:

The A-types among us will love hearing that a organizing the garage is the perfect occasion to break out the label maker. With lots of little odds and ends lying around – think nails, bolts, and air pump adaptors – that you’ll want to keep track of. Take the time to give everything a label, so that you’ll be able find everything at a moment’s notice.

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Since it’s such a hodgepodge of items, a garage is often one of hardest places to keep spic and span. But with the help of these organization tips, you can keep things tidy all year long.

Do you have a garage organization tip that we missed? Let us know in the comments below.