The Tailored Closet

Our homes should feel like a sanctuary we return to at the end of a long day. We should feel safe, comfortable, and content when we’re at home. Unfortunately, clutter and messes happen, especially if you don’t live by yourself. While you should be able to come home and relax, a messy or crowded house can inspire you to feel the exact opposite of relaxed. But you’re busy. Like many other people, you probably don’t want to finish up one tiring day of work just to exhaust yourself further by cleaning before you can get any rest. If you want to keep a clean home without having to dedicate countless hours to maintenance and organization, try the following tips designed to make cleaning a little easier.

Clutter is a big-ticket topic for many housekeeping platforms, as plenty of people struggle with organizing their possessions and downsizing when the time comes. This comes as no surprise being that the smaller living spaces of today are now combined with greater and greater pressures to buy new things. In this article, we’ll cover minimalism in brief, as well as a few tips you can try if you want to downsize your home, organize your possessions, and live a life that’s less reliant on the consumerist way of life. Each of these tips is designed to help beginners ease into minimalism, so chances are, you won’t become overwhelmed.

Once in a while, you might look around your home and decide that there are far too many things laying about. Your home has started to become somewhat cramped and you’re having a difficult time finding things amidst the plethora of your other possessions. Sometimes, this realization rears its head in someone else’s home or space. For example, you might be helping your parents or grandparents downsize, or you’ve grown tired of tripping on things every time you enter your child’s bedroom. These situations are what decluttering was made for. Read on to learn about how to declutter your home effectively.

A lot of living spaces are smaller now than they were decades ago, and because of the tighter rooms and minimized square footage in apartments and small houses, storage isn’t an easy option. However, leaving clutter all over the place isn’t ideal either, because a person can only declutter so much before they have no creature comforts left. If you’ve already decluttered your home but you’re still finding it incredibly difficult to store your possessions with such little space, it’s time to get creative. In most homes, storage space exists in places you might not ordinarily consider.

If you share closet space with your partner or housemate, the organization and space utilization in this area can become a source of contention. In this article, we’ll go over several tips you can follow in order to make more space in your closet, which will allow you and your housemates to create neat, designated spaces for each of your possessions.

Odds are you will certainly need an extra bed in your home at some point. It is likely too; you have an inflatable air bed tucked away for such an occasion. If you have not considered a murphy bed, also called wall-beds, hideaway, or pull-down beds, let us look at how you can make the most out of your space, and ditch the air bed once and for all.