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Home » The Home » 8 Excellent Tips to Declutter Your House

Cleaning & Organizing, The Home · October 18, 2022

8 Excellent Tips to Declutter Your House

8 Excellent Tips to Declutter Your House

Everyone desires a neat, well-kept, and spick and span home. Whether you live in a small apartment or have a family with young children, a cramped-up space with loads of stuff can easily overwhelm you.

Household clutter is a part of our everyday lives. But you may feel overwhelmed when you stroll around the living room, bedrooms, and storage places with all that clutter. The worst part is that with all that junk scattered throughout the house, you occasionally struggle to find even the smallest items.

So, before you prepare for the long winter, it’s time to declutter your home and take care of all that mess. Here are some excellent tips for decluttering your house and sprucing up your living space:

Sell, donate, or move oversized furniture items

You first need to get rid of the old, shabby, and oversized furniture in your bedrooms and living room. Oversized furniture with traditional designs clog up your living spaces and lack storage compartments. No matter how neat and clean they are, they almost always cramp up space and give it a congested look. To start, mark the furniture you want to sell, donate, or move to another location. Ask your friends if they need it and get the furniture moved to their places.

If you’re in Australia, moving furniture from one place to another is easy, but only if you hire a professional removal service. For those living in Melbourne, it’s now possible to move old furniture while paying only for the small space that you need inside the vehicle. Fortunately, Melbourne removals, such as Optimove, now offer backloading removals. You can share a moving truck with other customers and only pay for the space your belongings take. And that too, at extremely affordable rates.

Your belongings will be individually labeled, and you can rest assured that your furniture or other items will be delivered in their original condition without any damage. So, the next time you plan to move your oversized furniture to another location, Optimove is your go-to option.

List items and areas you want to declutter

Making a decluttering list helps you plan what to do and where to begin. When you list items and areas to declutter, you notice that decluttering your whole house may not be necessary. Once you have a list, try to focus on it and check one item from the list at a time.

One of the best ways to declutter effectively is to start small and work your way up. Mark the most critical areas that need immediate decluttering and start with smaller items first. You’re more likely to succeed if you do little and often than if you try to do everything and lose all your motivation somewhere in the middle.

Sort your clutter and get smart furniture

It’s time to sort all your stuff. Carry out this step before putting things in the right place after you make a list of all the items and living spaces you need to declutter. It’s a good idea to separate your clutter into things you want to keep, things you want to get rid of, and things you need to store for future use. For this purpose, we recommend you use separate labeled boxes.

Likewise, smart furniture is a fad these days. Not only are they compact, but the designers also use every inch of the space underneath or on the sides for storage and added functionality. Be it a sofa, dining table, coffee table, bed, or chest of drawers; you will find comfort and utility at its best.

Use your wall space

You can effectively utilize wall spaces to declutter the house. Use wall-mounted racks in essentially all rooms of your house. To increase your kitchen storage, for example, you can use wall-mounted storage racks on the backsplash or above the kitchen racks. Use hanging accessories to arrange your cutlery, utensils, cups, and cooking pots.

You can use wall-mounted racks in all the other rooms and give your home a well-organized look.

Sort your clothes and discard clothes you don’t wear

According to research, we only wear 20% of our clothes regularly. The remaining 80% keeps hanging in the wardrobe. We keep stuffing our closets with new clothing and accessories without getting rid of the old ones.

To declutter your wardrobe, sort all your clothes and discard or donate the ones you haven’t put on for a year. It’s time to let go of that trendy jacket that was in fashion a decade ago and those gowns that don’t fit anymore.

Don’t skimp on clutter baskets and storage bags

Clutter baskets and storage bags are the best items to help you neatly organize all types of stuff. Invest in colorful baskets and containers for the kids’ room, and get some clutter baskets for your room and store.

Use storage bags to keep all the seasonal clothes and accessories and slide them under the bed to declutter your wardrobe. You can label the clutter baskets room by room to avoid confusion.

Throw away expired and unwanted products

Dressing areas and washrooms are usually filled with products that are either expired or no longer in use. Clean up your dressing areas and bathrooms by throwing away all the expired and unwanted products. In most cases, people easily declutter half of their bathroom by simply discarding unwanted products.

Hide cords and cables

All those tangled cables and cords behind your office desk and TV console can be stressful for you. Even if you feel helpless in this matter, there are some easy tips and tricks to hide all those jumbled-up cables. Modern wall panels can quickly solve your LED cable issues. They give a contemporary look to your TV room and also declutter the space without the trouble of arranging the wires. You can use hook cords at the back of tables and furniture or tie the cords together and put them inside a basket. Various DIY projects are available over the internet to craft boxes that can easily hide heaps of wires and extension boards.

Final Thoughts

A messy house is stressful for most people and decluttering the house sounds even scarier. With the above smart tips and ideas, you can prepare yourself in advance and declutter your house more easily yet effectively. So, start by donating or selling away unwanted items, get smart furniture, and remove all the cords and wires. Also, utilize your wall space and give away clothing items you don’t wear anymore. Within no time, your house will become a clutter-free zone.

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