Ideas from the Organizer's Home

Ever wonder how professional organizers keep their home organized? Here you will find some helpful tips to keep your home organized.

Tip 1: Finding the queen-size or twin sheets can give you a king-size headache. Sort your sheet sets into labeled baskets.

Tip 2: Shopping at the big discount warehouse stores can be a money saver. Cases of canned goods and heaps of paper towels will not fit in the normal kitchen. Find a place, like the near-by laundry room, where you can store your extra goodies. The key to organizing these extras is to have a set storage area rather than sticking them here, there and everywhere.

Tip 3: One of the secrets to an organized closet is in your use and choice of hangers. Try to grab one garment on a wire hanger, you are likely to end up with several garments coming down and a jumble of hangers to untangle. Make your closet easier to use. Select one type of heavy hanger and stick to that type- an inexpensive fix at about $30 from a discount store. Be sure to remove empty hangers, perhaps to a laundry basket on the floor or the unused end of the closet bar. This will maximize your hanging space for clothing rather than wasting it with empty hangers.

Tip 4: Sometimes, ideal storage is found by using a piece of furniture in a new way. This secretary desk makes a lovely room accent and a great place to keep tablecloths and napkins. If you have closet bar space, hanging tablecloths is a good storage idea for less wrinkles.

Tip 5: Desk clutter includes lots of necessary items from printer paper to stapler to Rolodex. There are often so many tools on the desk there isn't any desk left for working. Think vertical. This document sorter, from a discount club store, was an inexpensive solution for capturing all of the necessary desk clutter and opening up plenty of desk space for projects.

Tip 6: Photo and keepsake storage: This bookshelf, an assemble-yourself project from the hardware store, offers the solution to photos and keepsake storage. Along the way, I’ve acquired photo albums, scrapbooks, photo boxes, yearbooks, newspaper clippings and the like. In a perfect world, one might have every single item stored in the same type of album or the same kind of box. But, in the real world, photos span decades. Storage items change. You end up with a mish-mash of items you treasure. There are just a few key ideas for organizing these kinds of things: get them into one spot, label them and keep it up as new items come in.

Tip 7: Having guests can be fun! Keep a drawer cleared just for them. In it, place small amounts of products they might need on their trip. These might include paper cups, bar soap, shampoo, conditioner, razors and other items.

Tip 8: An inexpensive pegboard is the best way to keep frequently used tools. Make life simple by keeping out and handy those tools you use often. Place seldom used tools in a tool box.