Creative Ways to Organize Your Room

Consider a scenario - you are running late for work, you are trying to locate your watch or a particular earring which matches with your dress, but you have no clue where it is! It frustrates you no end and finally when you can't find it, you rush to the office or college, cursing yourself for not being dressed the way you want! Or worse, there were some important documents that you had to carry that day and you could not find them in your own room! If such things happen once in a while, it is fine, but if they become a norm, it is high time that you organized your room.

Tips to Organize Your Room

De-Clutter
All of us have this habit of stacking things which we bought on an impulse but have never used! Clothes, shoes, wall hangings, posters it can be anything. The rule here is that if there are some clothes and shoes in your wardrobe which you have not worn in the last six months, it is very unlikely that you are ever going to wear them. So, let go of all such unnecessary things. I know it can be a bit difficult as you have spend money on it, still if you want to live in an organized way, this is the first thing that you have to do.

Then there are the broken items, out of fashion accessories, DVDs of films which you are never going to watch, clothing items that don't fit you, shoes with broken heels, rusted jewelry pieces, books that you read when you were a kid but no longer have interest in - a good way to organize your room is to get rid of all such unnecessary things.

Stack Things
Once you have de-cluttered, now you exactly know what all things you need and have to be stored in your room. For instance, if you have a huge collection of bags and everyday you have to spend a lot of time in selecting which one to use, an innovative idea is to purchase a dish divider and store the bags in them! If you thought shoe organizers were meant only for stacking shoes, think again! You can place them under a bed and can store certain items such as formal dresses or party wear which you do not need everyday! Likewise, ice trays can be used to store earrings, candle stands can be used for hanging bangles, hanging pocket organizers can be used to store anything and everything under the sun!

For storing things properly, you do not need to spend huge amounts of money on buying cabinets or cupboards. Look around the house, if there are any empty boxes lying around, line them up with a wallpaper and voile! you have a storage box ready. Also, if at all you go hunting for racks, shoe organizers, etc, shop at discount stores or at second hand stores. You will get very good bargains and thus, won't have to spend much on organizing your room. For storing clothes though, you need a proper closet, so invest in one, that is if you already don't have it.

Clean
Cleaning is a very important part of housekeeping. If there is dust piling on the furniture and the carpet, if dirty clothes are lying on the bed for a week now, no amount of organization is going to help! So, assuming that you have thrown out or donated what you do not need and have stored things nicely, it's time to get hold of a vacuum cleaner and start cleaning the house. As for the dirty clothes, always make it a point to keep them in a laundry basket! Ideally, cleaning of the room should be undertaken once every week.

Besides these, if there are space constraints, moving the furniture in your room a bit might help too. So, now that you have so many ideas with you, without waiting any further, do yourself a favor and start following them immediately. Believe me, a de-cluttered, organized and clean room will do wonders for your peace of mind!