Organizing your entire house can seem overwhelming, but with the right strategies and tips, you can make the process easier. Learn how to efficiently organize everything in your house with these helpful guidelines.
Organizing your entire house can seem overwhelming, but the right strategy turns a daunting task into a game-changer for your daily routine. We’ve lived in several homes and tackled everything from awkward attic nooks to high-traffic mudrooms, and we’ve learned one major lesson: storage should work for you, not the other way around. Whether you are looking for closet organization inspiration, kitchen storage ideas, or a way to finally hide the “backpack mountain” in the entry, these guidelines will help you declutter and stay organized for good.
How to Organize a Laundry Room
We bought this antique armoire for our laundry room, and it really solved the need for a linen closet. If your hallway closet is being used for something else (or maybe it’s non-existent!), consider a big ol’ armoire for sheets and towels. I made it even tidier by adding these linen organizers and labeling them by bedding size.
How to Organize a Bathroom
I’ve found that the secret to a clutter-free bathroom isn’t just about purging products, but about utilizing every inch of “dead space” by building storage directly into the wall. By prioritizing these architectural solutions and hidden outlets, we can keep our daily essentials within reach, while the counters remain effortlessly clean.
How to Organize a Closet
In our Modern Colonial house, we just finally finished the primary bathroom makeover, which included Chris’s and my closets. After living in the house for 4 years, we had an idea of what we wanted for our primary bedroom closets, and boy, did Stoffer Home deliver! Take a peek at all of the details that help us keep clothes, shoes, and accessories contained.
In our last house, we made the room off of our primary bedroom into a full closet/dressing room, and I still think about that room every day. If you have the space for it — I couldn’t recommend a dressing room more highly. And, we used IKEA PAX, so the ticket price was nowhere near what a custom closet system can cost! One word of caution: We tend to grow to the size of our tanks ;) (I’m looking at you, shoes.)
How to Organize Backpacks
If your kids are like ours, then you have a dining room table that serves as a catch-all for backpacks, books, school papers, and boots. We needed a storage solution for after-school stuff and installed these lockers in our bonus room/family room. It helps that they’re right next to where the girls do their homework.
How to Organize Your Fridge
I find that fridges need storage solutions, too. In addition to the drawers that are already built in, we have containers for fresh produce, leftovers, and anything else that might be “loose.” This blog post talks about how we like to do it.
The Home Edit Divided Fridge Drawer Clear
These clear, stacking drawers make it easy to organize your fridge without losing easy access to the things you need.
shop nowHow to Organize the Pantry
It’s those little turntables for me :) We’ve learned a few things about what we need as a family when it comes to pantry organization. Our current pantry is an amalgam of all of the pantries we’ve loved before, but take a peek at the video tour of our last pantry.
Wood Turntable
The turntable is the unsung hero of organization. We even have them in our fridge!
shop nowHow to Organize Serving Trays
The problem is — when you stack ’em, you have to pull them all out to get the one you need. We have wire storage organizers for this part of our kitchen, and it’s making me want to host even more.
How to Organize Lids
Our Place Pans | All-Clad Pans
We have a custom drawer in our kitchen for lids, and it’s a real game-changer. In this blog post, we also talk about other life-affirming kitchen organization — like how we organize our knives, spices, and even our reusable water bottles :) (Those Stanleys aren’t going to organize themselves!)
How to Organize a Mudroom
We put a lot of thoughtful little storage nooks into our laundry room-to-mudroom makeover, from sunglass trays to jars for Cricket’s treats and food. It needs to have all of the things that you grab on your way out. Each one has their own coat hook, and we tucked pool towels up above.
Heritage Hill Glass Jar with Lid, 1/2 Gallon
I have these glass jars in multiple sizes and have used them over and over again.
shop nowHow to Organize Attic Storage
It’s a wonder we ever found anything in the attic before we put up these shelves and sorted all of our seasonal decor into bins. The problem with attics is that they’re mostly unfinished. Don’t let that stop you. Put together some free-standing shelves, label a few bins, and you’ll be in business.
How to Organize the Garage
I’m here to tell you — the secret to garage storage is mounting racks to the ceiling. The ladder is already out there! Get as much as you can off the ground and put away. Then, you can actually park the car in here, too.
How to Organize Cleaning Supplies
You want cleaning supplies to be portable. You’re going to use them all over your house, but you don’t need to store them all over your house. Instead, get a couple of caddies that can move with you.
How to Organize Toy Cupboards
When our girls were smaller, we hid their toys in plain sight — in something we lovingly called the “fauxdenza.” (We loved this piece so much, we built another one in the dining room of our last house.) Of course, you can use this storage solution to organize anything, but it’s especially great for storage toys and games in common areas.
How to Organize a Teen’s Closet
We used The Container Store’s Elfa system in Greta’s room, and I’m go glad we did. It was easy to customize her oddly shaped closet with the storage solutions she really needed — like what to do with all of those shoes and boots! My biggest lesson in this closet was how to maximize vertical storage. I still can’t believe how much fits in such a small space.
How to Organize a Toddler’s Closet
With little ones, I’ve found it’s all about baskets and bins. They can’t fold or hang things yet, but they can still put things away. Here’s how we set Polly up for success.
How to Organize a Room Without a Closet
I know on house listings a room is not a bedroom if it doesn’t have a closet. We actually removed the closet from Faye’s room and set her up with this little armoire. It’s the perfect size for a little girl’s wardrobe! But I’m thinking this storage solution would be really handsome in a guest room, too.
How to Organize Christmas Decorations
Rolling Wrapping Paper Storage Organizer | Wrapping Paper & Ribbon
I’ve finally figured out how to keep all my holiday decor packed away! First, it takes having the right storage solutions (like the five products that changed the game for me). Then, I started a method where I keep things together and labeled by room. It’s helped me speed up the clean-up so that next year’s decorating (my favorite part) can happen so much faster.
The sheets look lovely and I love that storage piece. Am wondering if you have considered keeping the king size sheets where they are used – in you primary bedroom? I forget whether or not you have laundry in the newly desinged closet/bathroom? If not, are you considering adding a first floor laundry- seems like it would be kind of odd to have to take all the downstaris laundry upstaris and back again, and a first floor laundry seems like the right fit for a house this large?
These are all gorgeous but I think that most of us don’t have these huge spaces to put these organizing systems in. Would love to see tips for small spaces.
I’m struggling with “too much” storage….if that’s even a thing. Our current house has so many kitchen cabinets, so many closets, and storage downstairs, I’m finding myself getting lost in the extra space. We’ve never had this much storage, and I’m definitely grateful for the abundance, but my ADHD brain struggles with an abundance of anything! Ha!
Erika, I feel every part of your comment lol. I went from a 600 sq ft house to a 3000 sq ft house, and while my husband brought PLENTY of stuff with him (this is our first home together), I find my storage spaces are a mess because I don’t have to come up with crafty ways to make everything fit. We also don’t purge as much because there’s places to put all the junk. Bigger isn’t always better!
I would like to see someone organize a fridge that most of us have (small and cramped) instead of a big brand new gorgeous fridge. Same goes for closets, drawers, etc. Thanks!
Agree! These are GORGEOUS spaces, but most (if not all) involve renovating, makeovers, custom design, buying things/systems, etc.
Amen
Courtney, couldn’t agree more! Check out Naptime Kitchen. She’s got four kids in a normal-sized house. It’s not supposed to come out for a long time, but her book’s working title is “I Just Need a Bigger Kitchen – And Other Lies I’ve Told Myself”. Sounds familiar!
I love to organize and usually re-organize as our needs change in our home. Its not a one time and done thing! I find with little kids its more often since they are constantly growing and changing (toys, clothing, how they use a space).
But for cleaning supplies – I keep kitchen, bathroom, mudroom, laundry room supplies in a basket in that room. I am more likely to do a quick clean if the items are there and I don’t have to go to a cleaning closed to
find things (other than the mop and vacuum).