20 Ingenious Home Organisation Ideas
Looking for a few handy hacks to get your life in order? The longest journey begins with a single step and even a small change in your routine may bring noticeable benefits. From finding effective storage solutions to filing important documents and maintaining clean and usable surfaces, there are plenty of ways you can maximise household functionality and cut the clutter. Here are just 20.
1. Take a rubbish bag to your bathroom cupboards. Anything that’s been there longer than 6 months without being used should be bagged and binned, and most importantly, forgotten. Don’t get sentimental about last year’s Christmas bathbomb.
2. Make bathroom-sharing easier with colour-coordinated towels.
3. Remember to wipe down all kitchen surfaces every night to prevent build-up.
4. Every time you make a new purchase, try to select something you already own to be donated or chucked. Take that, materialism!
5. Designate a special spot, like a basket, tray or countertop, for keeping letters and receipts.
6. Keep all of your electronics cords in check by feeding them through holes at the back of desks and cabinets.
7. Magnetic storage is very in. Whether you want to store bobby pins or kitchen knives, this is a highly effective material.
8. When purchasing furniture, be sure to think about how multipurpose the product will prove to be. Bookcase as a bedframe? Check.
9. Make YouTube tutorials your best friend. There’s no DIY project so obscure that you won’t find a step-by-step guide online.
10. Always opt for hanging storage when it comes to clothing and footwear as you’ll save yourself a lot of space by packing items in vertically rather than horizontally.
11. When it comes to long-life food items, like flour and sugar, it can be a lot cheaper to buy in bulk and keep a tupperware container topped-up.
12. If you’re having trouble keeping track of which charger is which at the powerpoint, slip on some breadbag tags as makeshift labels.
13. Roll up all of your stray rubber bands into one mega ball!
14. Invest in a set of stackable, air-tight, plastic kitchenware. Your sanity will thank you.
15. Remember the golden rule: pretty much anything can look great stored on a pegboard.
16. Cardboard is as good a drawer divider as any custom-made product.
17. Double-check the condiments in the fridge haven’t passed their use-by date - it does happen you know!
18. Compile a master grocery list of things you always buy to make the weekly shop quicker and easier. Extras and once-offs can be jotted down as they come to you.
19. Alphabetising your bookshelf may be overkill but why not order your books according to genre?
20. Check that you can summarise the contents of each drawer with one word. And it can’t be “junk” or “miscellaneous”?
