Indian homes, as most of us would already be aware, are relatively small. That means, it’s important for you to use as much space as possible and organize every corner of your house to ensure that it’s neat and clean while having a wonderful ambience. Organizing every corner of your house is also important to prevent any mishaps that could occur due to clutter lying around.
Should you be interested in organizing your home, continue reading.
In this article, I will discuss in depth, smart storage hacks to organize every corner of your house. What’s more. These hacks won’t burn the hole in your pocket and you could do it over a period of time, if needed.
Here’re some of these amazing hacks that I personally believe, you must try for every corner of your home and create the much desirable ambience and safety.
Organizing Your Home
Organizing your home can be an enjoyable experience that allows you and other household members to fully use their own sense of aesthetics and creativity. In most cases organizing the home is done before festivals only.
Regardless of your individual needs, here’s how decorating each nook and cranny at the house can be done, within shortest span of time and least possible expenses. These are time-tested and proven ways and utilized by homeowners and homemakers across the country.
Clutter Free Bedroom
Psychology proves that a cluttered bedroom can seriously affect your rest and sleep. If you’re living in one of those urban apartments and don’t have enough storage space around the house, it’s likely that you’re dumping everything in the bedroom. Therefore, the first step to organize your house is by neatening the bedroom. After all, you deserve restful sleep. To get restful sleep, decluttering is a must.
Therefore, I advise you invest wisely on buying superb quality home storage solutions such as a wardrobe organizer and two or more laundry baskets. I mention two of more laundry baskets because we Indians tend to change clothes more than once daily. If needed, use various types of storage boxes and bins where you could stash away stuff that’s not going to be used daily. You could place wardrobe organizers in eat pile to where they’re safe.
Brighten Up Your Bathroom
At most Indian homes, the bathroom is perhaps the most neglected of all places. As a matter of fact, you might be using the bathroom to keep brooms, mops and other cleaning implements. We also keep bathing and washing soaps, powders and gels, bleaches and fabric softeners and other motley stuff in the bathroom, despite its limited size. Sometimes we install hooks and hangars to place towels, napkins and clothes that need washing, including used underwear and laundry that could seem offensive. This often gives rise to infestations of cockroaches and other insects including poisonous centipedes.
Here, I suggest brightening the bathroom of your home. If you’re wondering what can be done in the relatively small space, here’re some ideas. There’s a huge selection of adhesive wall organizers available for your bathroom. Consider triangular racks that easily fit in the corners to place stuff such as extra toiletries, spare towels and napkins and other such useable. You could also buy amazing wall-mounted racks to hang brooms, mops and other cleaning implements. Another wall-mounted shelf that’s self-adhesive could be useful to place to cleaning products safely.
Create a Cozy Kitchen
A typical feature of Indian kitchens: they tend to be grease-coated and in most cases, sooty, or with black, ash covered ceilings. This occurs because Indians are large consumers of cooking oil and other fats as well as myriad spices. Generally, you would be keeping the kitchen clean because none of us would relish food cooked in squalid places. However, the sheer number of cooking vessels, cutlery, crockery, foodgrains and other eatables stored at kitchens may ruin its ambience. Fortunately, that needn’t be the case. You could create a cozy kitchen by simply following these steps.
One of the things that comes to my mind are those lovely, compact kitchen stands where you could safely place your cutlery and kitchen utensils such as spatulas, ladles, peelers, colanders, pans and other stuff. You can easily get these kinds of shelves and organizers online and offline to give your kitchen that cozy and welcoming look. Actually, organizing your kitchen comes loaded with various advantages. Firstly, it gives more floorspace to move, thereby reducing the chances of kitchen accidents. Secondly, it reduces the exposure of your utensils, crockery and cutlery to oil-laden cooking vapors, thereby negating the need for frequent cleaning.
Lively Living Room
And finally, we come to the living room of your house. In fact, the living room is supposed to be the pride of every homeowner in India and hence, it’s decorated carefully with high-class furniture and furnishings. Sadly, all your good intentions of creating a wonderful living room could be bought to naught if you’re not careful with the available space. Excess furniture and decorative items could make the living room feel unwelcoming and uncomfortable. Your guests might have a negative impression of your family and its housekeeping skills.
Therefore, it’s also important to beautify every corner of the living room alongside other areas of the house. If you’re interested in doing so, I would suggest using superb sofa covers and chair covers to brighten up the living room and give it a superb ambiance. At the same time, use entrance door mats to add a bright spot to the room and its entrance. Should you have loads of decorative material, you could buy a wardrobe organizer or other such containers to stash them away from the sight of visitors and cover them with a fabric for effects.
Why Corners Matter at Homes?
You might be surprised that I’ve written about utilizing corners for organizing rooms in your home. That’s because most Indian homeowners and possibly you as well, might have imagined that corners at homes are useless. On the contrary. The triangle or delta shape of corners makes them an ideal location to place similarly shaped wall racks and free up floor space for more comfort.
Secondly, corners tend to get dusty earlier and attract cobwebs. Utilizing corners of homes helps reduce all these undesirable elements and keeps the home looking neat and well-organized. Therefore, while focusing efforts on organizing every nook and cranny of your home, try and find the best uses for corners too, instead of treating them as unwanted spots for placing brooms and other inconvenient stuff.
In Conclusion
While concluding, I will add that an organized home is also hygienic. Moreover, an organized home could also help alleviate your stress to some extent since clutter that causes such mental conditions, would now be gone. Organizing every corner of your home doesn’t really cost much money, as would be evident from those links I’ve provided for superior quality stuff that suits your budget. Therefore, go ahead and unleash your creativity to decorate and neaten every nook and corner of your house. Personal touches matter a lot when you organize your house. Also, ensure that your organized home stays that way.
