De-clutter your living room

When it comes to de-cluttering your living room there are a few simple but effective steps to follow:

Step 1 - Set aside a block of time to focus on de-cluttering

To de-clutter and organize your space, you’ll need to commit at least one hour to each area you wish to organize.

You can schedule time in your planner to tackle your home organizing. The best way to ensure you get organized is to do it in chunks of a few hours each weekend or during your off-days. If you don’t prioritize it, it will never get done, so make sure you write it down and follow through.

Step 2 - Only keep items you’ve used within the past year

You must get past the thought ‘maybe I’ll use this item in the future’’ if you want to make your home clutter-free. An item that has not been used in the past year should be set aside for recycling, to be donated, or to be tossed in the trash bin. In a year, you should have the chance to use every item in your house. If you haven’t used an item in twelve months, maybe it’s time to simplify.

Step 3 - Get rid of duplicate items

You should get rid of multiples of an item when you don’t need them anymore. Sometimes, when we forget we have something, we get it again. Sometimes, when we upgrade, we hang on to something less-useful and lower-quality.

Step 4 - Designate a spot for items you want to keep

Everything needs a home. Even if it’s just a drawer. Use clever container ideas for drawer organization to maximize your storage space. Find creative solutions to store and organize all the stuff you need to keep.

Step 5 - Utilize space saving furniture

Space Saving furniture invites one to embrace the stress-free and joy-inducing solution of organization in the most minimalistic way. Not only does it create more space, but when folded away when not in use, it provides fewer surfaces in your living room where items tend to accumulate.

Step 6 - Label every item

You may think label-making is a time-consuming task, but once you see it stacked neatly in your storage area, you will appreciate how much effort you put into it – and how much time it will save you when you look for something. Labels add a visual element to stacks of boxes. By labelling bins, baskets, shelves, and cabinets, you will be able to quickly and easily determine where items should go. For example, if a pantry’s contents are labelled, it’s easier to put away groceries. Thanks to labels, you don’t have to spend time searching for things in your organized space, only to make things a mess again later.

Step 7- Divide your remaining items into 3 piles

As you purge and organize your stuff, you probably have a few things to get rid of. Put your ‘don’t keep’ items into three categories: trash, sell, and donate. Before you throw away anything, see if you can sell it. Online selling options such as Gumtree
and Facebook market enable you to make money from things you no longer need for items that you do need. If you still have items that are in decent condition, but not worth the effort to sell, donate them. Don’t hold onto bags of junk. Get rid of them and move on. If you don’t sell or donate it within a week, then it’s time to toss it in the trash. Don’t keep it around. Get rid of it and move on.

Step 8 - Adopt a policy to put items back where they came from

You must change. Changing your mindset to incorporate organizing into your daily life and make it a daily practice. It is difficult at first but very rewarding in the long run. De-cluttering is just the first step to an organized home; maintaining it is the real challenge.
If you want to keep your living space de-cluttered, you have to keep up with it every three to six months and make it a priority.