Essential home organisation tips for a simplified home
Having an organised home can feel impossible, especially for busy mums juggling multiple responsibilities. However, this article will provide some home organisation tips that will enable you to finally have the organised, simplified home you crave.
Here are the home organisation tips you need to finally organise your home, and help you to feel less overwhelmed with your home responsibilities.
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Set a timer
If you feel overwhelmed by the number of things you want to organise in your home, setting a timer and organising as much as you can in the time allocated, is a great way to really focus on an organisation project.
You can set a timer for as little as 10 minutes, and focus on a small project, like a junk drawer, or a section of a cluttered room.
Establish routines
Doing certain tasks at a particular time, in a particular order, is a great way to organise your home, and maintain the organisational efforts you’ve made.
Some daily routine ideas to help organise your home include:
- Doing some speed cleaning activities for 10 minutes in the morning and night
- Emptying the dishwasher every morning
- Going through each room and returning items that belong elsewhere each night
- Sorting through mail as soon as it’s delivered
Some weekly routine ideas to help organise your home include:
- Doing laundry on certain days, which is a laundry hack I use
- Deep cleaning one room
- Vacuuming and mopping high traffic areas
- Writing a weekly meal plan
Ask for help
Keeping your home tidy with kids isn’t easy, so asking your family to help with your organisational efforts is a great way to take some of the load off your shoulders.
Declutter regularly
Decluttering is the process of removing items from your home, so you have less things to care for, clean, and organise.
Decluttering each room of your home using a decluttering checklist will help you to better organise your home.
A place for everything
Another great home organisation tip is to make sure everything in your home has a place, and that every item is in its place at the end of each night.
This is something that I do with the help of this stair basket. Whenever I find something that doesn’t belong downstairs, I place it in the stair basket then take the basket with me when I go upstairs, and put the items where they belong.
Have a drop zone
A drop zone is somewhere you place items that are used on a daily basis, so they don’t end up cluttering multiple rooms.
You can create a drop zone by using hooks attached to the wall nearest your front door for school bag storage, or coat storage.
You could also use a shoe rack to store shoes, or a small tray or bowl for keys and wallets.
Use containers
Another fantastic tip for organising your home is to use containers whenever possible, as they hold similar items, remove clutter from floors and countertops, and make it really easy to find things.
Clear containers are a great choice because you can see what’s inside them, and using stackable containers will help you to store items vertically to maximise space, especially in cupboards.
Maximise space
Speaking of maximising space, organising items vertically is a great way to use the space you have.
You can do this by storing books and décor items on shelves, using double hangers to hang multiple pieces of clothing together, installing vertical drawers in your kitchen, or using over the door organisers to store shoes, toys, or toiletries.
How to organise your home room by room
Here are some home organisation tips that you can apply to each room of your home, so you can simplify your home once and for all.
Kitchen
- As dinner’s cooking load the dishwasher, put ingredients away, and wipe down countertops
- Prepare parts of meals in advance, like cutting fruit and vegetables
- Organise your fridge by placing similar items together, or cutting large items into smaller pieces to save space
- Store small appliances that are rarely used to keep countertops clutter free
- Place similar items together in cupboards
- Store items where you need them, like mugs near the kettle, crockery near the cooktop
- Use a spice drawer organiser or a cutlery drawer organiser to keep spices and cutlery together
Living room
- Create zones like reading corners, or gaming corners, to keep items related to the zones together
- Store remote controls, magazines, books, rugs, and toys in baskets
- Keep décor to items you truly love to reduce clutter
Bedrooms
- Keep only essential items on bedside tables like lamps, books, clocks
- Use a toy rotation system in kid’s rooms to help organise toys, games, and puzzles
- Make beds every morning, which helps bedrooms feel organised and tidy
- Remove items that detract from a relaxing environment, like piles of clothing, or unpacked suitcases
Wardrobes
- Organise clothes by season or colour
- Organise kid’s clothes by storing similar clothing together
- Store out of season clothing in containers, or vacuum sealed bags under the bed
- Use matching hangers for a tidy and organised look
- Use hooks to hold belts, hats, and scarves
- Keep a donation box in your wardrobe and regularly add clothes to it
Bathrooms
- Purge expired medication, toiletries, sunscreen, makeup, and nail polish seasonally
- Use containers to store toiletries that you use daily
- Use jars to store hair accessories, lip glosses, and make up applicators
- Store liquid soap in a soap dispenser, bar soap in a soap dish
- Have a bin next to your toilet for used toilet rolls
- Install shelves above your toilet or beside your sink for extra storage
Home office
- Keep items you use daily within arm’s reach
- Act on, trash, or file paperwork as soon as you receive it
- Scan documents and store them online, or ask for online statements to reduce the amount of paperwork that enters your home
- Have stationery holders for pens, highlighters, sticky notes, and paper clips
- Unsubscribe from emails, delete photos and unused apps, and clear your desktop
- Use cable organisers to organise cords
Home organisation tips – a recap
Creating an organised, simplified home is possible by implementing some helpful organisation tips.
Some of these helpful tips include using timers to focus on an organisational project, establishing routines to help maintain order, enlisting the help of your family, and regularly decluttering to reduce the number of items in your home that you need to organise.
There are also some things you can do in each room of your home to make them more organised. Some of these include storing items in your kitchen where you need them, creating zones in your living room, storing out of season clothing, or using containers in your bathroom.
When it comes to home organisation, starting small and staying consistent are the keys to having a home that feels lighter, more manageable, and truly organised.
Which room in your home is the hardest to keep organised, and why?
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