5 Easy Steps to Decluttering a Bedroom
Do it RIGHT NOW!
Pick a bedroom, any bedroom. It can be one of your children’s, or if you’re brave enough it can be yours. Every bedroom seems to be a natural magnet for clutter. Think about it.
It’s out of the way of guest traffic and its easy enough to close the door instead of getting busy and de-cluttering it or cleaning it. A hallway with the doors to the bedrooms closed looks quite nice. Of course, that sign your teenager has hanging on his door “Enter at your own risk” is a giveaway of clutter… and more inside!
All of that aside, you just may be in need of the “turbocharged” de-cluttering system. Here is a quick way to make any bedroom look a little bit better from the very start:
Five East Steps to De-Cluttering a Bedroom
1 Empty the waste basket.
Yes, it’s that simple. Of course, even you can see that it’s brimming over with tissues, candy bar wrappers, old pantyhose, old newspapers and more.
2. Straighten the Piles of Books and Magazines.
Nope. You don’t even need to find a home for them. Try it. Just straightening them, and stashing them up against a wall makes a bedroom appear a little more wide open. Try it — I guarantee it’ll work.
3. Use a Basket As Temporary Storage.
This is especially helpful for a girl’s bedroom. Take all that stuff, from make up to earrings and necklaces, and place it in a basket. Now you can actually see the dresser top. You actually haven’t solved the problem yet, but you’ve certainly tamed it some – and sometimes that’s all we can hope for. This works for toys that clutter the bed or floor as well, providing the basket is large enough.
4. Make the Bed
A bed that’s actually made helps a room look more organized and well, civilized. Even if you replace some of those books that your children are using back on the bed (perhaps you can arrange them a little nicer) a bed that’s made pulls the bedroom together.
5. Run the Vacuum Cleaner
Performing this one single task can make the room look vastly more decluttered and clean. It’s truly amazing. Of course, this isn’t so easy to do if there are 7,000 items laying around the floor!
If unexpected company calls and you can do nothing else with a bedroom, run the sweeper quickly through the room. Then stand back a moment before that doorbell announces them and view the difference with just that one small chore completed.
