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12 Simple Bedroom Organisation Tips

Posted on September 10, 2021
Learn some bedroom organisation tips to keep your bedroom a clutter free space.

There is nothing worse than walking into your bedroom after a long day at work and seeing piles of mess all over. Laundry on the floor, loose coins piled up on the bedside table, your quilt, and sheets on the floor – this used to be my daily visuals until I decided that I needed to have my bedroom as a place of calmness and tranquillity. Here are some bedroom organisation tips I’ve found, that helped me achieve a mess-free organised bedroom without too much effort.

Let’s jump right in and declutter with these 12 Simple Bedroom Organisation Tips to help you keep your bedroom the sanctuary you’ve always wanted it to be!

12 Simple Bedroom Organisation Tips

1. Make Your Bed Every Day

I’ve included this first on purpose. Always make your bed. It’s the first thing you will notice when you walk into your room and gives a sense of cleanliness and order at a glance. Even better it only takes a minute or less! Making your bed alone brings your bedroom up to a semi-tidiness level and will spark the desire to keep going and get the rest of the bedroom in order!

2. Remove Unnecessary Items and Declutter

Remove clutter or items that don’t belong in your bedroom. The key is to make sure everything has a home. If stuff from other rooms in the home seems to be creeping into your bedroom it’s time to remove it. An easy trick is to have baskets for each person in the household which you can return their items to ready to be put back in the appropriate room without having to take multiple trips.

Think about when was the last time you used each item in your bedroom. If it was more than 12 months ago, or something that doesn’t really bring you joy anymore, then let it go. A great way to facilitate decluttering things in your room as you go is to keep a donation box or basket in the bottom of your wardrobe so you can donate things as you go.

3. Keep Clothes Hampers Close By

Put a clothes hamper in your bedroom, bathroom, or wardrobe to keep laundry off the floor. Better yet, get one with compartments for sorting to save you time when it comes to laundry day. Mine is on a rolling frame with bags so you can roll the hamper to the laundry or just grab a bag and go!

Check out these 6 laundry hacks to keep you on top of your washing pile! 

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But clearing the clutter isn’t just about getting rid of your excess stuff. It’s important to change your behaviour and consumer habits so you can avoid re-cluttering your space once you have decluttered. Included in Declutter With Me, are “Keep It Minimal” tips for each area in your home + 7 Tips To Help You Keep Your Home Minimal, to give you strategies you can implement to help you spend with intention so you can avoid bringing clutter back into your home.

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4. Create a Capsule Wardrobe

In order to avoid the morning stress associated with having to pick something to wear from an overflowing wardrobe, and the resulting mess that comes from the mad rush, consider de-cluttering your wardrobe or creating a capsule wardrobe.

A more streamlined wardrobe filled with items you love will make getting ready a breeze and ensure those days of clothing strewn all over the floor are well behind you.

 

Related post: 7 Essential Questions to Help You Declutter Your Wardrobe!

5. Limit Items On Bedside Tables

Keep bedside table items to a minimum. It looks less cluttered and will be easier when it comes time to dust. Keep the things you need close by, such as the book you are currently reading but put the other stuff away. Ideally in your bedside table where they are accessible but not visually cluttering up your bedside table.

6. Organise Like Items together

Keep like items together; jewellery, hats, handbags, etc so they are easy to locate. And as an extra bonus, you can spend your money with intention as you can see what you have and know what you do and don’t need before going out shopping and coming home with duplicate items.

7. Utilise Over Door Hangers

Over-door-hangers are an easy storage option when you are lacking storage in your bedroom. The storage options for these are endless. You can use them to store things like shoes, socks, makeup, and jewellery.

Over-the-door hooks can be used to store clean but worn clothing so you can re-wear them. This will help keep clothes that can be worn again off the floor and provides great additional storage space and will keep your clothes lasting longer as you won’t be washing them every single time you wear them (within reason of course, please do wash your underwear after ease use hehe).

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8. Keep the Floor Clear

Keep as little on the floor as possible. Open spaces do wonders for the appearance of tidiness. A hamper in the corner or cupboard will greatly help to achieve this! Place cushions back on your bed and fold any extra blankets.

9. Use the Kon-Mari Folding Method to Maximise Space

Fold your clothes Kon-Mari style. This method allows you to fit more in your drawers, reducing the number of drawers you will need which will help your room feel less cluttered. This folding method also allows you to see your clothes at a glance as they are ‘filed’ inside each drawer.

They will stay much tidier as you can pick what you want out at a glance, rather than having to dig through a vertical pile of clothes to find what you are after. This saves you having to refold everything constantly and allows you to easily close your drawers!
I made the change to folding using the Kon-Mari method years ago and will never go back.

Here is a video containing the instructions on how to fold clothing the Kon-Mari way if you are keen to see how it is done. Get ready to enjoy folding! 

10. Be Selective With What You Bring Into Your Bedroom Space

Be selective with what you bring into your bedroom. Try to implement the one-in-one-out rule for clothing to avoid closet chaos. Don’t buy endless decorative items that take up space and attract dust. Select a few you love and keep the rest from cluttering up your room.

Check out these 7 questions to ask before buying anything to help you shop and spend your hard-earned money more intentionally.

11. Use Boxes, Baskets and Containers For Drawer Organisation

Use boxes like IKEA Skubb or DIY versions to organise drawers into sections. This can be great to organise bras, underwear, and socks or shirts into sections and keep them tidy and sectioned so they are easy to find. They also look great! And why not have beautifully organised spaces in drawers as well as elsewhere in your home!

12. Implement a Plan For Worn Clothing

One of the biggest pain points for untidy bedrooms is dealing with clothing and laundry, whether it be clean, worn but still wearable, or dirty.

Ensure every time you wear something you assess: Does this need to be washed or will I wear this again?

Find a system that works for you. Here’s mine.

I put dirty clothes immediately into a hamper in the bathroom and if it is something that can be worn a second time, I will hang it up on hooks behind our bathroom door.

Alternatively, you can put it back on a coat hanger in your closet or have a specific drawer for clothes you want to wear again but to keep them separate from the unworn clothes whilst keeping them off the floor.

Once you get into the habit of this, clothes left lying on the bedroom or bathroom floor – or wherever is your clothing hot spot in the house – will be a thing of the past and will go a long way to keeping your bedroom a tidy oasis!

I hope these will be some useful bedroom organisation tips for your household so you too can maintain a beautiful calming organised bedroom space.

Let me know in the comments what bedroom organisation tips you have for maintaining your bedroom!

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6 Decluttering Tips to Keep Your Home Tidy

Posted on December 15, 2020
A minimalist lifestyle can lead to more than just the removal ofclutter.

This guest post comes from Nancy Zafrani, the general manager of Oz Moving & Storage in NYC. A day-one employee of Oz, she has 25 years of experience in the moving industry. As a New Yorker, Nancy also has lots of experience dealing with small apartments and organizing. In this post Nancy, gives us 6 Decluttering Tips to Keep Your Home Tidy. You can find other helpful organisation and moving tips on Oz Moving and Storage’s blog.

Too much unnecessary stuff can make your home look untidy and feel cluttered. Still, it can be difficult to get rid of the clutter you’ve collected over the years. Even though you know you will never need the things that cause your drawers and cupboards to overflow, you can’t seem to throw them away. However, a few decluttering tips and tricks can help make the process easier.


When decluttering your home, the most important thing you should focus on is optimizing your space and throwing out useless things. Still, the way you declutter your kitchen will differ greatly from your bedroom decluttering habits.

Here are 6 simple decluttering tips for your kitchen, bathroom, and bedroom.


DECLUTTERING TIPS FOR YOUR KITCHEN
As you get older, you tend to collect more and more kitchenware. Although you use them frequently, let’s face it, we probably have more pots, pans, and utensils than you need. Thus, if your kitchen isn’t organized, you’ll often have to deal with mess and clutter. However, you can easily avoid that by following these simple tips for decluttering a kitchen:


Think About What You Use Often
If you want your kitchen to stay organized longer, you should think about which items you use regularly. If you use your blender every day, place it somewhere you can reach it easily.


Your kitchen should work for you. By organizing your kitchenware based on how much you use it, you prevent cluttering in two ways. Firstly, your frequently-used appliances will be in reach, so you won’t create clutter while taking them out of the cupboard. Secondly, you’ll find it easier to clean up after yourself, as you can easily put back the more frequently used items in the easier to reach areas of your kitchen cupboards.

Don’t forget to purge what you no longer need or use. If you haven’t used the gadget in a year, it’s probably time to let it go. You may also want to let go of any duplicates you come across.


Organize Your Spices
If you use a lot of spices while cooking, you should also organize them properly. You don’t have to do anything extravagant, simply organize them in a way that works for you. Make sure the names of the spices are facing forward, so you don’t mix them up. Additionally, you can place your most-used spices in the front, as they’ll be easier to spot. Throw out any spices you haven’t used in some time, or any that have expired.

DECLUTTERING TIPS FOR YOUR BATHROOM
Your bathroom holds a lot of clutter. With the half-used bottle of the shampoo you forgot about, the skincare products, and more, your bathroom can easily become messy. Even if you decide it’s time to declutter it, you may not know where to start. If you feel overwhelmed, follow these decluttering tips for bathrooms to make the decluttering process go smoothly:

Related Post: 4 Daily Habits for A Tidy Home

Decide on What You Should Throw Away
Before you start organizing your bathroom, go through everything you keep in there and sort it out into three piles — keep, throw away, or donate.


Firstly, check the expiration date. If the expiry date has passed, throw the item away. Additionally, if you’re decluttering makeup, throw away anything that you’ve used for more than two years. Makeup will usually last for about 6-2012 months after you open it, so if you have makeup from five years ago lying around, throw it away.

Secondly, see which products you’re nearly done with and make sure you use them up first. If you don’t want to use the product, throw it away.


Lastly, if you have unopened products, think about donating them. You may think you’ll start using the body lotion that’s been in your cupboard for years, but you probably won’t. Donating products you won’t use will make you feel good, help the less fortunate, and declutter your bathroom.

Position Your Products In a Way That Makes Sense to You

After you throw away and donate everything you don’t need, you may think about how to organize the things you do need. Every bathroom is different and, while some may not have enough space to fit everything they need in their bathroom, others have plenty of room to spare. However, no matter how big or small your bathroom is, you should place your toiletries in a way that will work for you long-term.


If you’re used to your facewash being near the sink, keep it there. The same goes for your shampoo, deodorant, and everything you use daily. However, make a dedicated space for your toiletries. You’re much more likely to put them in their place after you’ve used them if it’s in reach. Furthermore, you’ll end up putting your toiletries in the same place you’re used to after a while, anyway. So, why wouldn’t you make a dedicated place for them wherever is most convenient for you?

DECLUTTERING TIPS FOR YOUR BEDROOM
A bedroom should make you feel calm and serene. However, if your bedroom is full of mess and clutter, it can have the opposite effect on your mood. Additionally, having a lot of decor in your room can make it feel cluttered even when it’s not. If you want to declutter your Bedroom, start with these useful tips:

Dedicate Five Minutes a Day to Decluttering Your Bedroom
If you want to make sure your room doesn’t get too messy, dedicate five minutes a day to tidy and declutter. Put everything in its place, put your dirty clothes in the hamper, and throw away any trash. Make the bed and light up a candle if you feel like it.


On the other hand, if you don’t feel like cleaning up every day, you can also dedicate a larger chunk of time a few times a week to keep your room tidy and decluttered. This will take more than five minutes, but decluttering and tidying should suit your schedule so go with the option that suits your preference.

For more tips on how to declutter your bedroom check out 12 Simple Bedroom Organisation Tips!

Invest in Furniture That Doubles as Storage
If you don’t have a lot of storage space in your room, furniture with storage is a must. Nowadays, you can easily find beautiful furniture that doubles as storage. Even beds often have storage space underneath.
Simply put, more storage means less clutter. You can put anything you want into decorative storage boxes and furniture, including books, shoes, or linens. Thus, you’ll be less inclined to leave your stuff all over the room because you’ll have a dedicated place for it.


Be sure to take advantage and utilise over door hooks and shoe hangers for storing hats, shoes, bags etc, consider gas lift beds or beds with drawers for storing excess linen, seasonal cushions or clothes, and side tables with drawers to keep your items out of sight and make your space appear more tidy and minimal.

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4 Daily Habits For a Tidy Home Now!

Posted on May 29, 2017
Do these 4 habits for a tidy home now to get on top of the mess and clutter and make your home a place you love

A few years back I was in a bit of a cleaning and organisation rut. It seemed as though I could never get on top of anything but it was really only because I hadn’t implemented daily habits for a tidy home. I wasn’t failing at adulting, I just hadn’t quite figured out the “hacks” and habits to keep on top of everything.

The dishes would pile up on all of our extremely limited bench space. We would fish out our clean, now wrinkled clothes each morning from the bottom of the basket as there never seemed to be time to put them away. Just hoping that what we were looking for had been washed that weekend. If we had guests coming over it was a huge ordeal getting the house into guest-ready status. We were convinced we needed a bigger home. One with more bench space and bigger area to wash up, a larger laundry room and more cupboard space. It would surely solve everything.

I quickly realised that more space was not the answer (in fact more space = more cleaning and work!) and seeing as we were hoping to own our home sooner than later up-sizing was not going to be an option either. I had to find a way to make what we had work. Coming home to mess, attempting to cook and make dinner with dishes everywhere and trying to use what scrap of bench space I could find could not go on. Life wasn’t meant to be this hard, surely!

Let me tell you it is not! There is a way to get on top of things before they get out of control. The key is to not let is get out of control in the first place and to do a little bit each day. A small amount goes a long way. And it doesn’t take hours and hours! Read on for 4 Habits For a Tidy Home Now! 

4 Daily Habits for a Tidy Home

  1. Do a general tidy daily

Let’s not build cleaning up to be more difficult than it is. Sure vacuuming and mopping and the rest take a lot of time but we don’t need to have show homes 24/7. A daily habit of doing a general tidy up is good enough. Spend five minutes a day doing a general tidy of the main areas of your home. You’re not going to be able to clean every space, surface, crevice but you will make your home look much more tidy with a small amount of effort.

Set your timer. I use the one on our oven so I know when to stop. During your general tidy go to each area of your home and pick up what doesn’t belong. A clothes basket can work great so you can chuck everything in there and move a lot of things quickly.

THINGS I DO IN MY GENERAL TIDY

  • Hang up the towels in the bathroom and clear the vanity counter.
  • Make the bed.
  • Straighten up the couch cushions and fold the throw.
  • Pick up any clothes on the floor and either throw them in the hamper or hang them up again.
  • Put anything away that’s lying around.
  • Bin any water bottles
  • Move any cups or plates to the kitchen
  • Pick up mess from the floor

If you just do five minutes a day or even just as often as you can, you will be amazed at how much tidier your home will look. If your spouse or kids can help out you will make even more progress. Everyone living in your home adds to the mess- get them involved, delegate!

If after your five minute general tidy is up and you are on a roll then keep going. You’re better off tidying when you feel like it or have the time than to leave it for a day where you just rather not move from the couch.

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2. Clean as you go

This is such an important tool for keeping your home tidy. Get in the daily habit of cleaning up as you go. When you are finished with something in the bathroom of a morning, put it back in the drawer or vanity. When you are walking from one room to the next take a second to look around and see what doesn’t belong and grab it to take with you on your way. Are you going out to the car? Grab that bag of donations you’ve had sitting at the door for the past week.

If you want to save time on cleaning and getting back to more enjoyable tasks think ahead and find ways to be more efficient with your time. Are you waiting for the microwave for five minutes? Go and clean up the mess from your meal prep or empty your dishwasher. Utilise what little time you have! Once you get used to this daily habit it will become part of your routine.

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3. Clean your kitchen 

For me, cleaning the kitchen was the one daily habit that drastically changed my cleaning habits and stress levels. I used to feel completely overwhelmed with dirty dishes and marks on our bench tops that had hardened and become difficult to clean. I would struggle to cook and prep dinner with our limited bench space covered with last nights dishes that I just had not got around to yet. And try cooking anything when your sink is over flowing. It’s just going to make your daily life much harder than it needs to be.

A chaotic kitchen can add so much unnecessary stress and being the hub of the home, it’s rare that you can ever walk past without seeing the mess piling up. Set yourself a new daily habit of tidying the kitchen. I used to put this off as it would get so out of hand that I would need a good half hour to get it back in order but now i set the time for 7-10 minutes and knock it out as fast as I can. I find it a challenge to work against the clock and love how efficiently I can clean my kitchen with a bit of forethought.

ALLOCATE YOUR TIME

Work out a time each day where you can spend 10 minutes on your kitchen.  Whether it be in the morning, when you get home from work, or before you go to bed. Whenever is most convenient for you. The key is doing it every day so there is no mass of dishes you have to sift through. Set the timer and get started.

MY KITCHEN CLEANING METHOD:

  1. Grab all your dirty dishes from wherever they may be (save yourself some time and effort insist on a rule after meals all dishes and cups are returned to the kitchen!). Soak any in hot soapy water that you need to wash.
  2. Spray all surfaces with an All Purpose Cleaner so that can break down your stains whilst you get onto the dishes.
  3. If you have a dishwasher quickly unload it (if you unload it in the mornings and load in the afternoon this will make like easier :)) and put all your dirty dishes in. If you don’t have one, quickly arrange your dishes into plates, cups, cutlery and bigger items like pots and start washing.

I let my dishes dry on a drying rack and put them away when they are dry (hey ,we’re trying to save time and make life easier here, let’s not do things that we don’t have to ;)).

4. Then wipe all surface areas. The stains should easily come off after being broken down by your All Purpose Cleaner.

Hopefully you’ll be done before your timer goes off. If not I promise you it won’t be more than a few extra minutes and the next morning when you see your beautifully clean kitchen and when you go to cook the next night you will not regret the effort 🙂

4. Don’t let your laundry pile up

I’ve never really understood why people have wash days and tackle their entire laundry pile in one horrible sounding day. I like to plan ahead for my washing. I certainly don’t wash everyday (thank you Minimalism!) but I prefer to do it in manageable chunks.

Make it a daily habit to do your washing. Now I personally don’t have enough washing to wash daily, but it’s certainly a daily habit to check if I do or don’t. I normally throw on a load of washing on Friday before I go to work and hang it out in the afternoon (Love that timer function!). By Friday I have a full load of darks so hold off until I have a full load.

Saturday morning I’ll then wash and hang out another and set another load to go before I head out for the day. Sunday is then just a catch up day for towels, sheets and anything else that needs to go in. Again get someone to help out if that is possible. My husband and I both do washing. I work full-time and have more important things to do than spend hours each week washing.

BONUS TIP

Consider decluttering your wardrobe! If you have 50 shirts to wear and 10 pairs of jeans you are going to be washing 50 shirts and 10 pairs of jeans in a never ending pile of washing. Set yourself a more realistic laundry limit and wash regularly.

Don’t let that pile get a mile high whether that be washed or unwashed, as it will just be so much harder to tackle and get motivated.

If you chip away at your washing, load by load, and make it a daily habit to at least check your clothes baskets to see if you have enough for a load, you will save yourself the stress of endless baskets in your laundry and waiting to be folded.

These are the four daily habits for a tidy home I have implemented in my routine and I have never felt more on top of things in my home.

What are your top daily habits for a tidy home that you have implemented and that help you keep on top of mess and clutter in your home? Let me know in the comments! 

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