5 tips to declutter your home! Easy ways to store your things and make your life easier Plus FREE storage box labels you can download, type what’s in YOUR boxes and print them out!
5 Ways to Declutter Your Home!
It was SO nice to go through my home and clean it up for the new year! I’ve compiled 5 easy ways you can de-clutter YOUR home!
Declutter and Cleaning Challenge
Be sure to join us in our Declutter and Cleaning challenge where we tackle ONE area of our home each day and by the end of January we have a clean and organized home!
1. Craft Room Storage
If you have a craft room consider organizing the closet of your room to keep all of your supplies. I took an inexpensive shelving unit from Target and added bins. Each bin is labeled with different craft supplies – paints, tools, party supplies, yarn, ribbon, etc. If you don’t have a closet in your craft space, consider getting a little shelf unit with doors to keep your supplies inside. You can grab the supplies you need and shut the doors for a clean look. Or you might live in a home that is smaller and you don’t have a dedicated craft space. I have a solution for you – a craft cart! Rolling carts are a wonderful way to organize. You can put your supplies on the cart to store them. When you want to craft, simply roll the cart into whatever room you want to work from!
5 Ways to Declutter Your Home for Spring and Printable Storage Templates
5 Ways to Declutter Your Home for Spring and Printable Storage Templates
2. A labeler is a great tool to get your whole house organized
The labeler I use is cordless which is so nice because you can get up into hard-to-reach places with it like your attic or garage and you don’t have to worry about plugging it in. Labeling everything makes finding items so much easier.
Wireless Label Maker
3. I keep all of my seasonal supplies and decorations in plastic bins
Plastic bins will keep all of your storage dry and the bins are easily stacked which makes your storage areas much neater and easier to navigate. I label each of my plastic bins with a printable label that I print off on my computer. It’s so nice to easily see what is in your containers.
5 Ways to Declutter Your Home for Spring and Printable Storage Templates
I’m sharing my bin printable with YOU! Just right click on this link and download it to your computer. You can write on the bin labels with a marker OR type inside he boxes. Just bring this document into Word and click on text box and then type whatever you want and print it off!
Click on the link below to print off these storage container templates. Select “LANDSCAPE” to print it off in the largest size.
Free Printable Storage Label Templates
4. Organize Seasonal Items
As a DIY/Crafter I LOVE pillows. I ended up having TONS of pillows. You can see the before picture of my pillow closet below. If you have a lot of pillows and not enough room to store them all I have an idea for you. Take all of your pillow covers off of the inserts. You may find that you have many of the same size insert. You can donate your extra insert pillow forms and use one pillow form. Then when you want a different look, just take the cover off your pillow insert and put the new one on. I took all of my pillow covers and folded them up and organized them in a bin by color. Now I can easily see what pillow covers I have and my pillows don’t take up as much space! I store my pillow inserts in a bins and it’s easy to access them.
5. Store all seasonal items in the same place
Metal racks are an easy way to keep seasonal containers. I keep all of my seasonal bins in a storage room with these racks. I use the printable bin template to print off what is in each bin so I can easily access them. All of my seasonal items are kept together – Christmas, Halloween, etc. Then when I am decorating for a specific holiday or event all I have to do is grab the bins with those labels, instead of rummaging around in my storage room for the bins that go together.
Be sure to join us in the Declutter and Cleaning Challenge! We tackle ONE space each day and by the end of January we have a clean and organized home!
Have a great day!
xoxo
For labeling clear bins, I have decided at my home, to slide my label sheets INSIDE the bins facing outward. No more labels getting wrinkled when the bins are moved. They didn’t get wet when the dishwasher above them leaked, they don’t fall off if the tape suddenly loses its sticky.
Yes!! That is so smart!
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Thanks for the helpful ideas. In one of the pictures, there is hanging wall unit with white plastic bins. Can you tell me more about that product? Thanks.
Sure! That was a little organization bin i found at Michaels craft store 🙂
Xoxxo
Great post Jen, I have not even tidied up the house yet 😀
Thanks Cara!
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