5 Ways to Better Organise your Homes

With our current hectic lifestyle, everyone is pressed for time, so much so that people can’t pay attention to the clutter at home. But letting things pile up in a corner of your room is not the answer, every item should have a designated place in your home. Keeping things organized can help you avoid rummaging through heaps of things for a single item and overall it can have a positive impact on your life, living space and time management. You don’t need to start cleaning right away, you can gradually organize your living space with these useful tips:

  1. Establish clear zones: This is the first and easiest step you can take on the road to organizing your home. Try to consider all the activities that take place in a specific area and try to establish distinct zones for each of them. Like sleeping and work might take place in the same room but the area for the same needn’t overlap the other. Make your bed along with all associated things cover one specific area like your bed and then establish that all your work items need to be on your table or inside cabinets, don’t leave either of the items in a place that it does not belong and you will that in this way your spaces will gradually start clearing up.



  2. Utilize your shelves: This cannot be stressed enough but in order to keep your home organized, you must utilize your shelf space effectively. Clearing out spaces will only work as long as they have a place to go once they have been cleared out, and shelves should function as storage for the same. Creating designated shelves for specific items like your books, clothes, toiletries and other things will keep these things off other surfaces and help avoid clutter.

  3. Ditch your coffee table: Well, you don’t actually need to throw out your coffee table altogether, but rather try to replace it with a non-traditional counterpart. Opt for a tufted ottoman with internal storage instead so that you can easily use the internal storage for any items that would otherwise pile up on the coffee table. No worrying about smudged surfaces and sharp corners anymore.

  4. Lighten up your living space: Some might argue as to the importance of lighting for organization but it does play a crucial role in promoting better organization in your homes. As opposed to physical elements, lighting has an impact on the mental element of a homeowner. Better light fixtures and well-illuminated spaces will motivate you to preserve the pristine space as it is and better illumination also increases the aesthetic appeal of your home.

  5. Clear your nightstand: Our nightstand often becomes a dumping ground for varied items that we might not use regularly and it might also promote a hoarding habit. Several useless items collect dust in the back of the drawers of your nightstand. In order to foster the habit of organization, you must clear your nightstand of all unwanted things and only keep useful things close at hand. Increase the aesthetic appeal of your nightstand by adding scented candles and fresh flowers as your bedroom should feel soothing, not cluttered and stressful.

Organizing your home is a continuous process and is a habit akin to brushing your teeth or eating, once you get used to it, it becomes easier. You don’t need to invest in expensive organizing products. You can easily keep your home neat and tidy without excessive spending. Change your life for the better by trying out some of these organisational tricks 


Sources & References

https://www.workingmother.com/10-easy-ways-to-organize-your-home-by-tomorrow#page-11

https://simplelionheartlife.com/organize-your-home/

https://www.womansday.com/home/organizing-cleaning/g2801/life-changing-organization-tips/

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