It's Time to Organize

Step 5 to getting your house in order. Are you just joining us? Take a moment to look back over the previous steps.
1) Habit and Routine - Read it here.
2) Finding Your Personal Space - Read it here.
3) Taking Inventory - Read it here.
4) Questions to Ask When Purging - Read it here.

You've worked so hard to get to this point. Don't stop now! Getting the stuff you don't use out of the house is the biggest battle. But, it won't feel very helpful if you don't take the time to organize what you are left with.

Storage

You should have made a list of ways this particular room is going to be used. Find it and refresh your memory. Now you need to think about storage options, and possibly furniture rearranging (or many times in my case, furnitures stealing - from other rooms). Honestly many people have everything they need in their house to organize properly. Try shopping in your own house before purchasing anything new.

Forever Homes

If you were at a friends house and decided to help out by unloading the dishwasher, would you know where to put the silverware away at? of course. People always put silverware together as a set, in the kitchen, usually in a drawer near the dishwasher or the table. The silverware has a forever home, everyone knows where to get it from and where to put it away at. That's the same philosophy you want to instill in the room you are organizing right now. You want to think about where an item would be most useful and secondly you want to find a way to make that item aesthetically pleasing.

Check out this post about decorating with useful items - Hiding in Plain Sight

A Place for Everything and Everything in it's Place.

The most important part of finding homes for things is not the initial home finding. For many people it's fun to stage a room and find a perfect place for everything. The most important thing you can do from here on out is put things back. We'll talk more about that next time in our last post of the series.

What room are you working on? How is it coming? Are you learning anything new?

Sarah

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