The Most Overlooked Spaces Making Your Home Feel Cluttered (And How To Organize Them)

Sometimes the place that needs the most attention is hiding in plain sight and has a major impact on how organized your home feels. Today we tackle often overlooked areas that need a little organizing TLC and a few Horderly systems to help reduce your stress and help foster peace in your space.

Entryways

Entryways are one of the most high-traffic areas and set the tone for your home, yet we often see clients treating them as an afterthought. Transform your cluttered entryway by maximizing the storage you have. If you have an entryway closet, utilize drawer dividers and stak bins to create separation between categories, and use decorative bins to store seasonal and less often used items. Rod dividers and slim wooden hangers will do wonders for reducing visual clutter and keeping your coats sorted and easy to grab. Elfa back of door systems are a great way to maximize the unused real estate on the back of your door or on a wall if you don’t have a closet space. Stackable shoe shelves and designated hooks can help you keep an avalanche of shoes, backpacks, and bags from encroaching into your pathway. 

TIP: If you don’t have a dedicated front closet and are looking for a custom solution, Horderly can help you create the entryway of your dreams with a custom buildout!

Bathroom Cabinets

Bathroom cabinets can easily build up clutter, becoming black holes of half-used products and forgotten hair tools. That’s why we love using stackable drawers for those deep under-sink cabinets to maximize the depth and height of the cabinet while being able to work around intricate piping. Stak bins are another great option because their adjustable dividers allow you to separate categories within each bin, or completely remove them to create space for things like hair tools. Affix organizers are game changing when it comes to maximizing the unused space on the inside of your cabinet doors. They adhere to any clean, flat surface creating additional space for your most frequently used products.

Kitchen Counters

It is important to take note of what is ending up on your kitchen counters so you can decipher what systems need to live where. Because we love having clear kitchen counters for our clients, we usually find that the organizing systems can exist in other areas of the home to minimize the clutter that ends up in the kitchen. This could look like drawer organizers in entryway drawers for keys and wallets, or even stacked paper trays in the office for incoming mail and to-do’s. 

For incoming artwork/mementoes from school, we recommend using a bin in a lower cabinet. Weekly, or once the bin is full, go through and decide what you want to keep and what can be recycled. Keep the “keeps” to a minimum, storing artwork in frames to display and build your child’s confidence, and mementoes can be tucked in their memento bins in their closets.

Toy Storage

Toy storage is often forgotten about and is so necessary when you have a growing kiddo! Not only will an organized toy system give you peace of mind, but it will also offer an opportunity to start teaching your kids how to independently clean up and put things where they belong. The cube cubby system is a versatile solution for storing lots of little toys like characters, magnatiles, legos, and even categories like pretend play and music. Storage benches are perfect for XL categories like trucks and stuffed animals while giving you an extra place to sit. Stackable drawers come in a variety of sizes (small, medium, large, & more!) providing storage for things like art supplies, doll accessories, and more!

“Catch-All” Drawers

Say goodbye to your “junk” drawer and hello to your freshly organized “valet” drawer where every item has a home! Like everything else, it is so important to do an “edit” of this drawer before you officially organize it to help you figure out what is landing here and why. Get honest with yourself about what you actually use and how often you use it to determine if those items should land in your valet drawer. We love using drawer organizers to sort all the “keeps” like wallets, keys, pens/pencils, post-its, money, and anything else you need to grab at a moment’s notice. If you have extra deep drawers, these deep drawer organizers are for you!

Organizing tricky areas can feel really overwhelming, and if you need some extra support, Horderly is happy to help! Reach out to find out more about our In-Home and Virtual services that can help transform your office.

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