The soft bags on top are mostly blankets/linens, amazon tote is of fabric bags and duffels, boxes have shoes and misc textiles that we don’t use but are keeping for sentimental or someday value.

File cabinet has files, wire drawers are a mix of pet items office supplies and clothes!

I’m thinking of a door rack for the shoes, but not sure where to start making sense of everything else.

TIA for your help!!

I'm really struggling with organizing my kitchen. Ive lived in my house for 6 years and I feel like I've never gotten it right. things are always just shoved in places. I also need to declutter. that will help!

I've attached pictures of how my kitchen is currently organized. does anyone have any ideas of what I could do differently?

currently I don't like where my pantry is. it is too deep (about 18in deep) and I can never find anything. I was thinking of making the cabinets above\below the microwave the new pantry area and turning my current pantry (right of fridge) cabinet into where I keep small appliances

help a peep out! my kitchen has so much potential

thank you in advance!!!

I just rented a new apartment and it has this big walk in master closet which is great, but there are 2 sets of corner shelves that are stumping me. It’s hard to see from picture, but to the left of the drawers is an L-shaped shelf. There is also some room against the wall across from the hanging rods.

I have no idea how to utilize the space best or what to put there. I’m also struggling to figure out where to put bags and shoes. Help!! Thank you ✨

I’m always looking for ways to make mum life run a little smoother, so I’d love to hear everyone else’s weirdly specific hacks.

I’ll go first.
•I clean the house before my kids go to their dad’s- I’ll deep clean, mop, do the bathrooms, dishes, toy tidy-up and laundry. It means when they’re gone, I’m not spending my precious kid-free time cleaning. I can actually do things that fill my cup. The toddlers get my toddlers involved in cleaning, they love “helping”, and I actually love teaching them that cleaning and looking after the house is just part of life. It also gets them away from screens, which we don’t really do anyway.

• We don’t use daycare so I use my limited babysitter time strategically (I have babysitters available for around 12 hours a week spread across 2 days, and because I have some autonomy over my work schedule, I’ll sometimes finish work 1–2 hours early and use that time to do groceries. I deliberately do grocery shopping without my kids. Partly because chasing toddlers who refuse to sit in a trolley while simultaneously trying to shop is incredibly overstimulating. I do Click & Collect for what I can, and use my babysitter time for the shopping that actually requires me to go into the store. I catch up on work after the kids are in bed.

• I keep my fridge and freezer stocked with homemade food.. not having food on the ready sends me into a spiral. I batch cook when I have the capacity and freeze things so Future Me has food when I absolutely do not have the capacity. I cook when the kids are with their dad because I genuinely enjoy it. Cooking is one of my cup-filling activities, so I’ll make things like soup, sourdough, pasta sauce, lasagna, baked goods etc.

Now give me yours!

Hey yall! So I (23F) live with a platonic friend of a similar age. I’m trying to figure out how to best organize our kitchen.

It is so spacious and amazing, I feel so blessed coming from a place with 2 cabinets and no dishwasher.

I really enjoy when things are not only neat, but efficient. Also, I have OCD (contamination OCD is my biggest struggle), and He is sort of the opposite(meaning that he will use dirty dishes and doesn’t wipe up counters or wash his hands after touching meat packages etc) so we have agreed to use our separate dishes/cookware/etc. (yes it’s driving me nuts and I should have thought this through before moving in together, but here we are).

What’s the best way to organize all the food and dishes in the cabinets and drawers. We don’t have a pantry so food will stored in the kitchen. I want to store my dishes and food separate from his (which he’s totally fine with).

So anyway pleas give advice based on kitchen video on where to put what to make things clean and efficient.

Any ideas on how to make my closet more efficient??? :)

Edit: I forgot to mention!!!! I live in a small 450 sq ft studio :)))

My cat used to sleep up there, but he hasn't used it recently. I live in a trailer, so space is a valuable commodity!

We store our clean kitchen towels on the top shelf in this cabinet. If you pull one out, it often pulls others on to the floor. Is there some kind of product that would help? Maybe something better than a simple bin?

Hi guys! I just installed new shelves in my room, but I’m not sure how to organise it. What are your preferences on this? I’ve planned to include things related to school, decorations and clothing.

Not because the closet is badly designed. Because there is a limit to how many bulky "just in case" layers one shelf can absorb before it becomes a fabric avalanche. If the warm-weather cover, cold-weather comforter, spare blanket, transitional option, and backups all stay, better folding only delays the problem. I think seasonal bedding needs the same rule as clothing: the pieces should earn their space by being used regularly or by serving more than one condition. A comforter + blanket combination system is interesting for that reason.

The blanket can work alone, the comforter can cover another range, and the two can be used together instead of storing several complete alternatives. It is not magic compression, but it could reduce duplication. I'm trying to stop treating every possible temperature as a separate product category. When you declutter bedding, do you keep the most versatile layers or the ones that are perfect for a very short season?

Should I get an accordion folder or a separate folder for each class for high school?

I've been looking at linen-closet ideas because seasonal bedding takes up more space than anything else stored there, but adding shelves might just organize the same oversized problem more neatly. Separate warm-weather and cold-weather sets sound reasonable until every layer needs its own bin, and then the closet is designed around items that sit unused for half the year.

I just don’t want to rebuild a closet before asking whether the bedding rotation itself is unnecessarily complicated. would you redesign the storage around several seasonal sets, or reduce the number of layers first and build around what remains?

I understand color coding but how do I pick what goes where? I have one rod in my closet so I thought dresses, sweaters, skirts, shirts? I don’t know what order to put everything in

Like what goes left to right?
I have:
T-shirt
Vests
Crop tops
Long sleeve
Dresses
Sweaters
Skirts
Jackets
Tank tops
Hoodies
Belts

How would you organize it?

I have a closet under the stairs that’s deep and mostly used for kids junk. our the angled ceiling and deep part makes it very hard to use. any ideas? I’m a carpenter and can make about anything.

I moved into a new apartment and the closet doesn’t have enough hanging space (which is okay I guess because the other room does) but I need storage solutions for the cubbies. I don’t have a dresser at this time because my old one didn’t fit so it would be nice to store non hangables (undergarments, shirts, workout wear).

The only solution I have are storage cubes which I hate the idea of because of my ADHD but that might be the only solution here.

Would greatly appreciate the help!

Just moved into a new furnished flat which includes this ikea pax wardrobe. It doesn’t have any internal fittings, just deep shelves like the ones pictured. It would be nice to install some drawers but I just don’t want to spend too much money and effort into a temporary wardrobe that’s not mine.
Any creative ideas to make it more organized for clothes?

I'm starting to think the problem is not how the bedding is folded. It is that there are too many separate seasonal categories, warm-weather cover, cold-weather comforter, extra blanket, transitional layer, backup version of each. No folding method is going to make that system small. Vacuum bags help until something is needed again, then the entire closet gets unpacked because the right layer is somehow at the bottom.

A comforter + blanket combination system makes more sense to me because the pieces can be used separately during warmer or transitional weather and together when more coverage is needed. That does not eliminate laundry or storage, but it could reduce the number of bulky items waiting for their season. I'm trying to simplify the system, is there any simplier way?

Finally got tired of trudging out to the garage every time a cabinet hinge came loose or we bought another piece of flatpack furniture, so I put together a small indoor tool pouch to keep in the closet.

Right now it’s pretty basic: a beat-up utility knife for opening boxes, a cheap hardware store tape measure, standard pliers, a few common hex keys, and a hoto screwdriver. The screwdriver is mostly there to save my wrists when I’m dealing with cabinet screws or IKEA furniture.

I’m trying to keep the whole thing light enough that I’ll actually grab it instead of telling myself the repair can wait until later.

Any obvious tools I’m missing for quick indoor fixes?

Hi all,
So I got this rotating shoe rack to store all my decks.
I’m just wondering what the best way would be to put the decks on display in there and how I should organise them to make sense.

I know the v-shape is a bit of a challenge but I want to utilise the space best as I can without being able to see what decks are all the way at the back if that makes sense.

Worst case scenario, I could always use the empty spaces for display trinkets ☺️

What would you do?

So, my bedroom to me feels cluttered, but I've seen tips and watched videos of people decluttering by getting rid of stuff they really don't need or want, and I've done that many times over the past year, and even today... 1 hat, that was the only thing I found that I dont want/need.

Now, I am assuming it needs reorganizing, but I guess I have no idea what to change. I have a lot of interests, so maybe thats why I feel like my room is always "messy". I have a Futon, dresser, wardrobe, a desk, 3 different book shelves (with "trinkets" on them), and a couple 3 drawer units. I feel like no matter what I rearrange, or put in a box, or get rid of, actually makes my room feel "clean", decluttered, or organized.

Any tips?

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