Organize + Energize: 10 Steps To a Clutter-Free Bedroom
Tuesday, June 04, 2013
Your bedroom should be a place of serenity. Clutter shouldn’t be the first thing you see when you awake in the morning and it shouldn’t be the last thing you look at before you go to sleep. Create a peaceful, calming atmosphere in your bedroom.
Here are 10 tips to a peaceful, relaxing bedroom.
1. Grab a pen and paper. Walk into your bedroom and stand in the doorway. Take a minute to look around the room. Jot down anything that just doesn’t feel right to you. Is it the positioning of the furniture? Does the space make you feel uncomfortable or stressed? What do you see? Is there clutter in the corner or clothes slowly making their way out of the closet onto the floor? Are the nightstands full of books, magazines, medicine or chatzkies? Can you see the tops of your bureaus?
2. Get to work and create a space that you love. Start by decluttering nightstands and bureaus. Do you really need all the magazines that you have stored next to the bed? Utilize drawers in the nightstand if you have them. Place drawer organizers in them. Declutter bureau tops by only leaving on them what you use on a daily basis.
GET THE LATEST BREAKING NEWS HERE -- SIGN UP FOR GOLOCAL FREE DAILY EBLAST3. Do you have an office in your bedroom? It’s ok if you do, but keep everything organized and contained to the desk area. Don’t let information spill all over the bedroom.
4. Keep as little in the bedroom as possible. Do you really need everything that is in your bedroom right now? Start purging items that you no longer feel you need.
5. Don’t let your bedroom be a drop spot for random items. Create a home for those items and get them out of the bedroom.
6. Do you love the furniture placement in the room? Take a minute and think about how you want the room to look and then change it.
7. Maybe you are clutter free and organized and you just need to refresh your color scheme. Choose a new accent color and change the accent pieces in your bedroom. It will give you a totally different look and feel to the bedroom.
8. Organize your closets. This tip alone will make you feel energized and lighter!
9. Keep the room simple. Remember less is more. Try not to clutter the room with too much furniture.
10. When all the above is completed give your room a good cleaning!
Your bedroom should not make you feel anxious or stressed. This is a room where we recharge, refresh and get revitalized. The bedroom should not be disorganized or cluttered. Make it a sanctuary and a retreat where you can go to find sanity and serenity.
Kristin Carcieri-MacRae, the founder and owner of Organizing in RI, has always enjoyed finding creative ways to streamline the environment around her. Kristin spent several years working in retail management, medical offices, and was even a successful certified personal trainer for 4 years. She discovered that in each of these fields she had a natural ability to streamline spaces and processes. Through her organizing ability and her passion for motivating others to achieve their goals, Kristin created Organizing in RI. Kristin has appeared on air on www.talkstreamradio.com and Patricia Raskin's Positive Business Radio. Her articles have been published in the Rhode Island Small Business Journal and New England Home Life. She is also available for organizing workshops.
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