Round Up Tips: Easy Bathroom Organization Ideas

Get Rid of Unused Items

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The first step to organization in any space is to declutter. As messy or overstuffed place cannot be tamed easily, get rid of items that are useless, expired, or outdated. Just make sure to purge ruthlessly and throw away anything that you no longer use because these things become less effective over time.

Create More Space with Baskets and Pockets

For a fun, inexpensive storage solution, take towels and piece together a hanging organizer. This will help you to create more space for those little toiletries. If you have towel rods you can also create more storage space by hanging small baskets on them. Alternatively, you can place them under the sink.

Utilize Over Head Storage

The wall area above your head is the storage space waiting to be used. Haven’t considered it yet? We thought so! You can install some hardware like inexpensive metal racks in order to store your essential items overhead. And the best part is it is just at a hands reach.

Divide the Storage Space

Organization becomes tougher when there are more than one people using the bathroom. If yours is the same scenario, divide up the storage areas evenly to cater for your belongings. Select a drawer, cupboard space, and shelving that you will each own for toiletries and other items. This way each individual can be held accountable for organizing their storage spaces.

Use these bathroom organization ideas and get amazed at how spacious and inviting your compact space can feel. The overall idea here is to figure out the dead unused spaces with a creative eye and then turn it into useful ones. Have more smart storage and organization tips? Share them through comments.

4 Unique Collapsible Furniture Ideas

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4 Collapsible Furniture Ideas

Chairs

A great item to have that is collapsible are chairs. Being able to pull out an extra chair or two when you have guests or even are in need of a chair yourself, makes even more sense to have some chairs on hand that can breakdown and be assembled easily.

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Tables

Collapsible furniture has come a long way since the idea was first thought of. Take for example tables or desks that are created as part of another piece of furniture allowing them to collapse to create a new item such as a privacy board for a book case or even hideaway other items you may not want to be seen by your guests on their visit.

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Beds

Great ways to use collapsible furniture in bedrooms is with beds. There are so many options from bed frames folding to the point of being flat to beds that can be closed off and hidden as though part of another piece of furniture, similar to a murphy bed.

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Dining Sets

Options for dining sets available are chairs that can slide right under the table to create a closed shape such as a cube or a circle. Some great pieces I have seen could really become a conversation starter for you.

Next time you are looking for an idea to make more space in your living area, consider some of these furniture ideas to ensure you always have enough room to spare!

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A well-organized kitchen pantry is really a fine thing. This extra storage space is always welcomed. But if we don’t take care of it, it can soon turn into a nightmare every time we want to find something. So, kitchen pantry organization has to be on top of our priorities if we want to get maximum use out of it. Here are some tips on how to do that without paying much for it.

How to Organize your Kitchen Pantry for Less

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How to Organize your Kitchen Pantry for Less

Containers, Boxes and Trays

Containers, trays and boxes are just must-haves for kitchen pantry organization. Wire racks are also great and versatile. If they aren’t clear, labels are the best way to go, so you always know what’s in them.

Clear containers have the advantage that you can keep an eye on when they need to be refilled. Clear jars and bottles are also very helpful and a great way to make your pantry look amazing at the same time. You can re-use glass jars and bottles which you’ve bought from a store by just removing the labels. Most of them come off easily if soaked in warm soapy water for a couple of hours. Also, try brushing a mix of one part olive oil and two part baking soda on the labels, to make peeling them off easier.

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Storage from Top to Bottom

A great way to achieve kitchen pantry organization is to try and make use of every single space available so you have a place for every item. Put things you don’t use often on the highest part of your pantry and bottles and heavy stuff on the floor, but keep a stool or ladder handy so you can reach the items stored high.

Also, make use of corners and space behind doors. With a few handyman skills you can even use space you would never think that you could use. To do this, you can screw on some spice racks on the inside of the cabinet doors to hold your spices. Also, screw – or glue with strong adhesive – glass jar lids under a shelf or cabinet and you will instantly have cheap additional storage for small things.

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Keep on Top of Clutter and Contents

The most important thing to do to have an organized pantry is to keep control over the clutter and its contents. And it comes for free, too. To do this, regular cleaning is of outmost importance. This way you also ensure hygiene and getting rid of spoiled goods.

To minimize stuff lying freely around you can use some cheap solutions, other than boxes or trays. For instance, use Velcro to fasten together granola bars or candy bags. Also, some plain plastic over-the-door shoe holders are a clever and cheap solution to keep your small supplies organized.

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Kitchen pantry organization has not to be something costly, nor does it need complicated gear or expensive hardware. Just try to keep in control of your pantry and make use of the tips described here and you will have much more fun in the kitchen.

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Most parents face problems while furnishing their kid’s room because the room might be small but its resident has a whole lot of games and toys to store away and needs enough space to do his/her crafts and homework. In case of a little bit older kids, parents have to settle down many space issues for the inevitable sleepovers and other things. Here are simple space saving tips for kids rooms.

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Here are few suggestions about how to make more space in your kid’s room.

Space Saving Loft Beds or Bunks

Loft Beds are an excellent option for kid’s room, especially if you have just one room for your two to three kids. Loft beds or staggered bunks will set up an intimate setting for your children while growing up together. You can also spend some extra money to customize the beds or bunks in accordance with your requirements.

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Use Vertical Space

Going vertical is an effective way to maximize space in any room. In this way, you can maximize the inadequate floor space by doubling up the kid’s bed with dressers, a desk, or play equipment. Use bunk beds and hang the shelves and artworks high to utilize the available floor space. Save space by making a combination of a few tricks like using vertical space, building a custom solution, and keeping the décor and belongings to the minimum.

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Turn Bunks into Built-Ins

Sometimes, you may have a big room but have to house three to four kids there. In that case, the cleverest way to save space and increase storage is to install underbed storage and turn the bunks into a wall of built-ins. In case of high bunks, use nautical nets on the side of the beds. It will ensure the safety of your little ones.

Get Rid of Clutter

A cluttered room looks congested and small no matter how much space it has. So, one of the effective ways to make the kid’s room look bigger is to make it look not cluttered. To do that, you have to limit your children’s belongings and spend on smart storage solutions. Instead of using a number of small bins or storage baskets, invest in a large dresser. It will help keeping the things in order and making the room less cluttered.

Use Multi-functional Furniture

Though you cannot increase the space of a room, smart choice will let you to make the best use of that available space. Use furniture that will serve multiple purposes. For example, you can use a bed with drawers or a storage bench. A storage bench will provide space for sitting and keeping toys, winter clothes, or extra blankets.

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These space-saving ideas will help you creating a kid’s room that is distinctive and unique in its own right.

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Your bathroom is possibly the smallest room in the home but it is the storehouse of the most diverse collection of stuff. Storing so many items may not be a problem in case of big bathrooms. However, it is a bit difficult to fit everything in a small bathroom and keep it from getting messy. Check out some clever storage solution ideas for your small bathroom:

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Use the Wall Space

You have to think smartly to use every inch of space of your small bathroom. Your storage problem can mostly be solved if you can use the walls of the bathroom. Hang one or two wall cabinets to make the most of the empty wall space. The different compartments of the cabinets can store various items in an organized manner.

Baskets & Jars

For keeping the small items organized, keep them in several small or medium baskets. Label each of the baskets and store them in the cabinets. You can use mason jars for the same purpose. Install a wooden board on the wall and attach some large pipe clamps in it. The clamps will hold the jars. You can keep odd stuff like make up brushes, cotton swabs, and other such things in these jars.

Freestanding Storage

Some people frequently change the bathroom design or the position of furniture items. Freestanding storage pieces like a simple storage ladder or a sleek cabinet will work well for such a bathroom. You can change this storage piece’s position as you like. Do not forget to paint it in a color matching to the design style of your bathroom.

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Use the Space beneath the Sink

If your tiny bathroom does not have any room for extra containers, make use of the space beneath the sink. You can place storage bins or wicker baskets under the sink to keep bathroom toiletries at hand. If you want, install a vintage vanity shelf at first and keep the bins or baskets there. Otherwise, cover them with a patterned sink skirt.

Create Storage above the Bathroom Door

If the ceilings of your bathroom are high enough, use the space above the bathroom door and other wall spaces of the same height to store extra toiletries. You can also install a wooden cupboard at that height to keep the towels. Such cabinets will be available in a flea market.

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Inexpensive Storage

Buy inexpensive crates from a crate store and paint them in a nice color. Hang them on any wall or on the vanity to create an inexpensive but functional and decorative solution. You can also use the inside of cabinet doors to keep small things like toothbrushes, eyeliners, and lipsticks organized. Use plastic containers of different sizes for that purpose and attach them to the cabinet doors or any flat surface with a non-residue adhesive.

Try and se if these ideas will help you to keep your bathroom clutter-free.

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Most of the city apartments feature small kitchens, meaning lack of enough storage space. Inadequate cabinet and kitchen storage space creates frustrations, as it does not let you to display your kitchen gadgets and kitchenware that you have accumulated for decades. However, do not be disheartened even if you have a small kitchen. Proper organization and employment of a few tricks can put almost everything you need in your kitchen at your fingertips.

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Move or Donate Unused Items

At first, sort all your kitchen items into the following categories – dishes and glassware, utensils, cooking and baking necessities, foodstuffs, serving items, and miscellaneous. Then, sort out the items that you rarely use and put them in a large box. For example, the turkey roasting pan, which you do not use more than once a year, is probably taking up your valuable kitchen space. Put the tea set also in the same box that you had as a gift but never use actually. After that, decide whether to store them in another place like attic or basement or to donate some items like canned goods or dishes that you do not use. Do not forget to get rid of expired canned goods or foodstuffs that you have not used for last 12 months.

Create Additional Space

Adding open shelves is a good idea for those kitchens that lack storage space but have enough wall space. Though not really suitable for storing plastic or food items, shelving is a nice way to store items like glassware, containers with lids, collectibles, and cookbooks. Attractive lined baskets that fit well on the shelves can be used for keeping those items that are inappropriate for open shelving.

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Hang Kitchen Items

Wall-mounted racks or hooks are another good option to store items by using wall space. Use them for hanging tea towels, cookware, and miscellaneous kitchen accessories. Wall mounted spice racks are suitable for holding small containers, spices, and other odds.

Utilize Unused Space

Apart from upper kitchen cabinets, which are generally attached to the ceiling, others have open space above them. You can easily use this extra space for storing purpose. Use this space for keeping those items that you do not use frequently such as rarely used cooking gadgets or holiday items. Store them in lined baskets with lids to protect from dust and dirt and keep these baskets organized above the kitchen cabinets. A pantry can create more space for storing items in the kitchen. A ready-made pantry will be a less costly option than a ready-to-assemble pantry. So, visit a retailer that sells ready-made pantry and buy one according to your requirements at a cheap cost.

Apart from using shelves, wall space, baskets, pantries, and empty spaces, you can also create extra space by reworking your existing cabinetry.

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Careful organization and a few personal touches to your kitchen pantry can minimize waste and maximize savings. Most people do not mind adding extra functional space to their kitchen pantry despite having a big kitchen with enough storage space. With minimal amount of shelving and storage provided, pantry is probably the most ignored space in the kitchen. However, with these following tricks, you can add space that is more functional to your small pantry as well as make this storage bonanza one of your favorite features.

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Organize the Items

Before the days of built-in cabinetry, majority people used to use kitchen-adjoined pantry for keeping their dishes, linens, and dry foods. Though modern kitchen has started to ignore it, the addition of a pantry will bring nothing except benefit. Even if you have enough storage space, you can use the pantry for corralling the surprise packages of paper towels, snacks, and pasta. For easy pick up, place frequently used items on the front of the shelf. Group the items like canned foods or cooking ingredients and keep them separately.

Remove Unnecessary Items

While a kitchen pantry has adequate space, many households use it as a catchall for storing odd items. Just remove the recycle bins, trash cans, bulk beverages, and pet food bags and place them somewhere else. Free up the pantry space by installing sink trash cans and recycle bins. Lock the bulk items in airtight bins and move them to laundry room or garage.

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Amplify Storage Space

Install deeper or wider shelving if your existing shelves do not hold enough items. Opt for different types of storage options throughout the pantry instead of using only one type of shelving. Install shelves or use hooks on the backside of the pantry door for storing condiments and spices or hanging measuring cups and spoons. By using the door, you can free up the shelf space. Pull out drawers are also good for organized storage of small kitchen appliances. You can use every inch of your pantry by thinking a little bit more creatively. The top and bottom of pantry walls often remain unused. Make them useful by adding inexpensive wire shelving. Attach over-the-door hangers for hanging grocery bags. Take waterproof, pest-proof bins, put heavier items into them, and keep them on the floor.

Utilize Hanging Wire Storage

Instead of using shelving, installing hanging wire storage on wall space will give a pantry a versatile look. You can use this storage option for hanging aprons, pans, pots, and big utensils.

An organized kitchen pantry can help you a lot during cooking. Efficient use of pantry space will allow you to keep all the necessary items into one place and find them quickly in times of need.

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Happy DIY Saturday Stagetecture readers, the first of 2013! Every January we all try to find ways to get organized and ensuring our home is functional and renewed is essential. Today on DIY Saturday I give simple tips to get your home organized in less time and tips for the entire year! One key is to purge before you start organizing as this will ensure you aren’t organizing old household items, trash, unused products, old clothes and more.

First, watch a video on how to purge before you start organizing!

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You Tube – Purging Before Organizing your Home

Link to video –> Purging  before organizing your home

A home should be a place that can make you feel refreshed instantly. You can start this year by presenting yourself with a cleaner, tidier, and more organized home. In order to cut the clutter and unnecessary things from the storage areas and living spaces, you can work in the following ways:

Bedroom

Take a good look at your bedroom and sort out how you can reduce its weight. Do you have old showpieces, cranky table lamps, or faded artificial silk plants? Either throw them away or swap them with something tidier and better. Keep a smaller wardrobe this year with better quality clothes.

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Living Room

Do you have stacks of old magazines in your living room? Recycle them! Move them in any shelf or away from sight.

If your kids’ toys are scattered all over the living room, either banish them to family room or move them in a storage box. Plus, remove the Christmas tree if it is still up.

Dining Room

If you have piles of paperwork in the dining room, clear them as soon as possible. Though dining table should be used for dining purpose only, some people use it as workstation too. For whatever purpose has it been used, just do not let old projects to clutter on it. Recycle, remove, or file them away.

Make some more space by discarding woolen or shag area rugs. Keep the floors bare or cover with sisal and cotton rugs.

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Bathroom

Peep through the cabinets and medicine chests and ditch all the medications, personal care items, and cosmetics that you use no longer. Just dump those items that you have stopped using and recycle the packaging. However, be careful with medications, as you should not throw them into trash or dump down drains.

Kitchen

Clean your refrigerator and free up fridge space by throwing away all the condiments that you have not used in last few months. You can donate or sell those appliances that you have not used more than a year. Try to bring more eco-friendly and recyclable items into your kitchen.

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While organizing your home by dumping or re-arranging things, you can list these items into three categories – recycle, donation, and garbage. Keep those items that you can use after recycling, donate those that are in good condition but not necessary to you, and ditch the rest.

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In discussing how to create the illusion of space in your hallways, there is a mistake that most homeowners make concerning the hallways. How many of you have really taken the time to, while you are cleaning the entire house, also clean the storage in your hallways? Very few I believe and this stems from the fact that a lot of us don’t see the hallways as part of the house. We only tend to view them in the light of passageways which take us from one end of the house to another end. This is all wrong. The earlier you transform your hallway from that dingy part of your house to a welcoming and warm part of the house, the better for your entire house.

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Now you may be wondering how to transform your hallways. The most effective way is learning a few helpful tips on how to create the illusion of space in your hallways since it will go a long way in making a hallway as gorgeous as the main house itself. Listed below are some of the ways to create that illusion of space in the hallway. They are:

Tidy:

Yes, you can actually create that illusion of space within your hallways when you make sure it is always tidy. Avoid using the hallway as a dumping ground and even when you need to keep certain things there out of necessity, arrange them properly instead of piling things on top the other. Even at that, a cupboard or shelve can be created for those items that can only find space in your hallways. This way, you make the place look and feel spacious.

Bright Lighting:

You might be surprised to read that in some homes, there is no proper lighting within the hallways and the family members just have to grope their ways through this part of the house. It is really awful. Installing bright lighting in the hallways not only brightens this space but also makes it beautiful and at the same time, feels spacious. You can install a chandelier in the middle of the ceiling which can even turn out to be the main focal point of the hallway. You can also hang several colored lights from the ceiling for that magical effect in your hallway.

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Hang mirrors along the walls:

Among the numerous tips on how to create the illusion of space in your hallways, this particular tip is requires careful planning but at the end of the day, you will be completely amazed by the mesmerizing effect it creates within your hallway, this is apart from making it look and feel larger than it really is. You can do this by hanging large ornamental mirrors on both sides of the hallway or you can settle for smaller but varied designs of mirrors.

It is time to transform those hallways in your house and sticking to these above mentioned tips for creating more space visually in your hallways. Try these ideas and you are surely going to come up with an interesting and beautiful hallway.

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Aside from the kitchen, one of the busiest rooms at home is the laundry area. Whether it’s because of summer activities, back to school or any season, your laundry area is always at its peak and spending time in the laundry room seems to take longer than we’d like to admit. For this reason your laundry room should be organized and functional on a day-to-day basis. Thanks Martha Stewart for these handy ideas for your laundry room!

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One of the common challenges of a laundry room is limited space. Whether you have a small space for your equipment, folding, and cleaning or you just don’t know how, here are tips that will help. Try these efficient and effective ideas in your laundry room, and let me know which ones were the most helpful!

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Install dividers

You can utilize your walls by installing dividers to stack your clothes or laundry mats. But you have to plan how you place your dividers on your wall. Consider measuring out your room in advance and determine the spacing you need per the size folded clothing items you have. If you know you will have bulky items such as bedding, consider spacing dividers at larger intervals. Also consider using laundry organization systems that hang on the wall.

Install clothing bars for hanging items

This is so simple, neat and effective way to maximize the space you have in your laundry area. You can mount these bars at the bottom of your upper cabinets. Also known as drying bars, these useful bars are readily available in hardware stores at an affordable price. Home improvement stores have made it easy with do it yourself kits that making mounting drying bars easy and effective.

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Create a laundry wall that has everything in one place

This can be positioned at the corners or edges of your laundry room. You can have wire shelving installed at opposite ends for drying clothes. Feel free to insert a laundry mobile cabinet that you can insert in the given space. You can place your laundry materials in this area. It will also be great if it is located near your ironing board for better accessibility. Depending on the lifestyle of your family determine what is needed for easy reach. Closed door cabinets can store detergents, and cleaners, while open areas can store quick needed items without searching.

Instead of dreading doing the laundry, use these helpful tips to help you restore faith back into this tedious chore! Having a favorable laundry area means more efficient and effective laundry results, every time.

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