12 Perfect Tricks to Keep Your House Tidy (Without Being Marie Kondo)
To have a tidy house you don’t have to be an expert in organizing things, just apply common sense, have a certain distance and detach yourself from everything you don’t use.
Here are some amazing tricks to help you get your house tidy quickly and easily.
- ORDER YOUR CLOTHES BY USES
Apply the logic of your day to day to the order of the closet. That is, place on the most accessible hooks what you wear the most , what you wear once a week in the lower areas and the most sporadic use at the top of the closet. In this way your order system will make your life easier when saving and finding things.
- APPLY THE HANGER TRICK
When in doubt about whether or not you should keep a garment, apply the hanger trick. It consists of putting the hook upside down from how the rest of the clothes that you use are placed. If in a few months the hanger is still upside down, it means that you have not worn it last season and that the time has come to get rid of it.
- PUT BOXES IN YOUR DRAWERS
So that your drawers do not become a chaos, it is best to divide their interior. You can use lidless boxes, organizers, dividers, etc. The objective is that you separate the different elements that share space in the same drawer .
- SORT BY COLORS
Besides being pretty, it is super practical when it comes to organizing clothes. You can apply it both for the clothes you have hanging , and inside the drawers . It starts with the light ones and ends with the dark ones.
- DO NOT CRUSH THE FURNITURE
And we are not only talking about the closet, but also about the bookcase, which is the typical piece of furniture in which all the content is in view and can increase the feeling of disorder in your home. According to experts, books should occupy 60% of the space , decorative objects 10% and the remaining 30% should be free . Only then will you get your library to ‘breathe’ and convey a sense of order.
- SAVE THE MOST VOLUMINOUS IN A VACUUM
This trick is infallible to get the most out of your closet space. By vacuum packaging the most voluminous objects , such as coats or bedspreads , you get them to occupy much less (1/3 of their normal volume) , with which you can store more than twice as many things in the same space.
- WHEN A THING ENTERS
2 come out !. The best way to reduce the things you have at home is to get rid of 2 of the same category each time you get a new one . When you have controlled the number of objects in your house, then you can move to proportion: when one thing goes in, another goes out.
- WHAT YOU KEEP, USE IT
And that is applicable to clothing , accessories , but also to household appliances or tableware . Things are to be enjoyed.
- THAT THE HANGERS ARE THE SAME
Although it seems silly that the hangers in your closet are the same, the truth is that it helps you keep it in order and take advantage of it. By using identical hangers, your closet is much more aesthetic , conveys a sense of unity and , in addition , more use is made of the space , since the hangers adapt better to each other. If they look to the same side they also convey a greater sense of order. These are the hangers that are best for each type of garment.
- KEEP ONLY THE CLOTHES THAT FIT YOU
Whether large or small, we all have clothes in our closet that do not suit us at all. If you fluctuate between 2 sizes you can save something that you do not use now , but not many pants very far from your current size .
- LABELS YES, BUT NOT FOR EVERYTHING
Storing objects and accessories in boxes inside the closet is a super trick that ensures that everything has an established place and you always know where you are going to find it. If you choose clear boxes, you see everything at a glance, but it can also create more clutter. Opaque boxes will be more elegant as long as you choose them the same. The labels help you to internalize where each object is stored , but if you abuse them you can generate a lot of visual noise . Use them only for boxes of small objects or in the children’s room, but not throughout the house.
- LET THE WHOLE FAMILY ORDER
For a house to be in order, all members of the family must contribute their grain of sand. The first , is to take over their own things , in the case of children toys , clothes and others . And the second , commit to return everything to your site when they use things from common areas. Only then will it be possible to maintain order at home with little effort.
