Sexy Fall Home Organizing

Choose a place to start:

You may have several areas of your home that you would like to organize, but start with just one.  Decide which space gives you the most stress or the biggest headache or perhaps the area in which you entertain or where you have guests.  Whatever your priorities, select one area and stick with it.  Many attempts at organization fail when the task of cleaning the entire house seems daunting.  When you complete one area, celebrate and then move to the next.

Allow plenty of time

Make sure you have realistic goals and expectations.  Don’t expect organization to happen overnight.  Schedule a few hours each day to work on the chosen space.  Of course if you choose the garage over the linen closet, it will take much more time.

Clean house

Once you have selected a space, go through the contents.  Donate or hold a garage sale for anything you don’t need or use anymore.  Use the 2 year rule of thumb, if you haven’t worn or used it in 2 years, it is time to say goodbye.  These items take up valuable space and probably won’t be missed.  Need a little help?  Get yourself a copy of Marie Condo's award winning book "The life changing magic of tidying up".

Take inventory

After you have removed extraneous items, take a look at what remains and ask yourself some important questions.  Do these things belong in this space?  Does it make sense to keep them here?  Is there another more suitable place for this?  Need a little help keeping track of your "things"?  Look for a free printable Inventory sheet.

Look for wasted space

If you are in need of more storage space, think creatively about additional areas that you can put to work.  Perfect examples include over doors and underneath beds.  These areas are valuable real estate in your home and are often overlooked.

Once you have completed the first tasks of getting organized, it’s time to do the hard work.  The key rules to organization are visibility, accessibility and flexibility.

Visibility

Choose storage solutions that are transparent or are easily labeled to help immediately identify the contents and will help save valuable time.

Accessibility

Ensure that the items you need most often are the easiest to access.  Likewise, place the items you don’t need to get to as often on a higher shelf or in another space.

Flexibility

Select a storage system that can adapt to your changing needs.  That way, you can reconfigure and reuse solutions to solve a variety of storage and organization problems.

Check out a few inspirational images below to help you get started.  And of course if you need a little help from your fairy god designer, just give a shout.  My go to Organizer  in Philadelphia is Debra Serota of Sort it Out Philly.  Check out her site and reach out!  www.sortitoutphilly.com

Much love and luck with your projects. – Tina

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