How to Organize your room: Organizing Tips

Simple ways to clear the clutter in your house

Identify your biggest source for clutter
Not all rooms are cluttered for the same reason. Your bedroom may be cluttered with clothes, the garage may be cluttered with tools and projects that you began or planned to begin but never got around to it, the living room may be cluttered with books or magazines. Furniture itself can be a source of clutter, you might have too many chairs or cushions piled in one small space or you might have too many decorative items on the shelves. As much as you like all the funky stuff you have around the house, it still needs to be organized. As far as clothes are concerned, pick them up off the floor and put them where they belong. Reserve a special space for the books or magazines that are creating a clutter and don’t leave old editions of any magazine lying around your living room. The best was to organize a garage is by putting up some shelves.

Use Hidden Storage
In places where it’s difficult to put up shelves, make use of furniture with hidden storage spaces. Even if you don’t have that kind of furniture, use whatever you have to conceal some of the clutter. Take your mess of magazines and put them simple wicker baskets that can be placed behind a couch or can be used as a flat surface for putting stuff.

Elegant shelving
Elegant shelving works best in the bedroom and the family room. If you have too many electronics or books or decorative items all cluttered in one spot, shelves will be a better way to organize them. For things like CDs, its best to go out and buy a CD rack.

Throw away the stuff you don’t need
Not everything in your house has a purpose anymore. There may be tons of clothes that you never wear and books and magazines that you don’t read anymore. There may be CDs that are scratched and unusable or electronics that you think you can fix. Throw them out! If you haven’t fixed all that broken stuff or worn those pair of pants in years, you aren’t going to miss them. A big part of de-cluttering is to recognize the things that don’t have any use anymore and throw them out. another huge part is to change the place of some things. You may have bought around fifty crystal decoration pieces for your living room but they can’t all fit in there, move some of them to another part of the house.

All wires must be tied down!
Although not really a huge source of clutter, but still a kind of mess, wires dangling or trailing from electrons give the tidiest places a messy look. Tie down all excessive wires and try to conceal them as much as possible.

How To Make A Small Room Look Bigger

If you have huge rooms, high ceilings and an unlimited budget, it isn’t very hard to decorate it, or to redecorate it often. What proves to be real challenge is to make smaller spaces less claustrophobic and more livable. If you have a small space that you need to turn into a usable room, either for studying or into a guest room, here are a few things you can do to make it look bigger and better.

Hidden storage
No matter what you use the room for, you’re bound to need to put stuff somewhere. Since you’re space is already small don’t try putting up shelves or buying racks and stuff. Find furniture that provides hidden storage space. Beds and tables with storages spaces can easily be found.

Mirrors
To make a room seem less claustrophobic, use mirrors with lighting. Mirrors against any one wall, whether narrow or wide can help to make a room look more open and fools the eye into thinking it has bigger dimensions.

De-clutter
Since you’re going to be using hidden storage spaces it only makes sense that you keep any and all clutter out of the room. Don’t mount too many pillows on the bed if you’re making it in to a guest room, or if it’s a reading room, don’t do overboard trying to fill it with too many rugs, pillows, chairs, and any other kind of seats.

Lighter colors
It’s okay if you use a dark color sparingly but keep most of it in a lighter shade. Lighter shades in the carpet, on the walls and in the curtains will make a room seem bigger and less overwhelming.
Smaller furniture
If you know you’re room has limited capacity don’t fill it with the biggest beds or sofas or racks. You can find nice modern and functional furniture in smaller sizes. Even sitting chairs come in less space consuming designs.

Find space saving furniture here (with lots of ways to arrange it)