Home Organization Ideas

Does your house function the way you want? This site is full of home organization ideas to simplify your home and make your life easier.

Being home should be a relaxing experience. You should look forward to being in your home and just enjoying it.

You should be able to do whatever you want most of the time when you are in your own home.

If not, then you need to visualize a different way of living and use these home organization ideas.

I love being in my apartment. I have it set up to minimize the amount of time I need to work on it. I would rather watch TV, read, surf the internet, talk to friends or family on the phone or nap rather than pick up stuff, work on home organization, endlessly work in a Household Notebook or spend lots of time cleaning. When I was married it was very difficult for me to relax when I was at home. My wife was the type of person who always wanted to be doing some do it yourself home remodeling project. I don't mind doing some remodeling. But it's just so expensive, time consuming, energy draining and messy.

She also had a huge amount of stuff. So the major ongoing project was the reorganizing of her stuff and working on home organization.

She would spend hours and days going through the stuff, trying to organize it properly.

She bought every type of container she could find in the attempt to make it all fit properly.

It never did. There was just too much.

She bought cabinets, shelves, boxes and bins. She spent an enormous amount of my money on this.

She would browbeat me to work on it with her. I hated it, absolutely hated it.

I just couldn't stand to reorganize the same stuff in different ways. No progress was ever made in this type of home organization.

It was stuff I had no interest in and I could not get her to get rid of any of it. She was a total pack rat.

I think she loved the stuff more than me. She would be enraged if I ever threw anything out.

So the house was pretty stuffed with stuff that had to be put away and be dealt with continuously. That is no way to live.

Once you get things thrown away and put away properly you really shouldn't have much to do with it anymore.

The key to home organization is to organize each room based on the major function of each room and possibly a few minor functions.

The look or aesthetics of the room will have to be secondary to the function.

It does no good at all to have a beautiful kitchen if it is too difficult to prepare a meal.

Put things in the kitchen in the place they belong based on cooking and cleaning up afterward. Make better choices when deciding on your kitchen tools. Minimize the knickknacks and excess clutter that seem to grow in kitchens. One of my favorite tips to keep your kitchen clutter under control is to not buy so much food.

A sleek, modern bathroom can make getting ready for work take too long if it isn't set up for maximum efficiency.

Set up your bathroom so that you can get ready in the minimum amount of time, so it is easy to clean and it looks good. There will be days where getting ready fast is essential. You can always go about it more leisurely when you have time.

When I was married my wife kept me busy all the time at home. I was also working a lot of overtime in order to make enough money. My kids were young at the time too.

I was exhausted most of the time. The last thing I wanted was to get up any earlier than I absolutely had to and still make it to work.

I had my morning ritual down to the second. I knew just how long I could spend in bed to try to keep some semblance of health.

My part of our master bathroom was set up for maximum efficiency. So I could get ready for work or anything in hardly any time at all.

You may have a beautiful living room but if you don't enjoy watching TV there then what good is it?

Some people have their couch and chairs so far from the TV that they can hardly see it. They have to have the volume way up in order to hear it.

You may have beautiful home but if the furniture is uncomfortable no one will enjoy being there.

Your bedroom should be set up for restful sleep instead of a magazine ad. Having all those extra pillows is one of the most ridiculous ideas ever.

Your closets should store your things neatly so you can grab what you need in an instant instead of rummaging endlessly through them. Closets should be arranged neatly and be only for things that belong in that closet. Getting rid of the excess clutter in your closets will really help your home organization.

Your garage should easily fit your car or cars all year round and not be filled with junk.

Every other room from the attic, to the pantry to the basement should be carefully planned for its major use. Your home organization will help you to get the most out of your home, enjoy it more and have more free time.

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