Unpack The Organized Way with These Four Tips!

Everyone dreads it, whether it’s relocating into a new place of your choosing or whether you have no choice: Moving. It take time, effort, usually a lot of stress and patience to go through a move, but we all have to do it.

People usually think of the logistical challenge of packing and the actual move itself as the biggest challenge in a move, but in fact it’s the easiest part of moving that sets people up for long term issues with clutter inside the home: unpacking. Some people wait a long time to unpack once they move in, but when, how, where and the way you unpack can make the difference between having a comfortable, clutter free and organized home that you love to live in, and a new space that leaves you feeling cramped, uncomfortable and unable to expand in.

Here are four tips to help you unpack the organized way for an easy-to-manage set up in your new home which will keep your home sensibly organized for the short and long term:

Unpack as soon as possible.

You’ve just finished moving box after box and are probably tired.

While it can be tempting to let the boxes and other items just languish around the house, you might not ever fully move in!

You don’t have to unpack everything all at once, but consider regularly unpacking a few items day after day.

Set a deadline to be fully unpacked, be it a week or two if you have a studio apartment, or a month or two if you are in a house.

Give rooms a purpose.

Assigning different purposes for each room will help you better envision how you might organize and store your belongings.

Start by writing down all the different rooms in your home and don’t forget the bathroom, hallways, attic, basement, pantries and other storage areas.

Write down the purpose of each room next to the room name, as well as any major furniture or items that will be stored in that room and feel free to edit your list as necessary.

Start with larger items, end with smaller items.

It’s important to build a solid foundation for your belongings in your home.

Make sure larger items, such as beds, tables, dressers, armoires and other solid piece of furniture are moved to their respective rooms first.

You can then start unpacking those smaller items that sit inside those larger items, such as bedclothes, clothing, books, sundries, etc. as well as other room accessories.

Unpack for function, then decoration.

Undecided as to which rooms you should unpack first?

Tackle the basics in your home first so you can properly eat, sleep and bathe; unpack your kitchen, bedroom and bath first.

Once you have these rooms taken care of, you can focus on working on other rooms of the house, starting by first unpacking functional items or those items you’ll use on a daily basis.

Functional items in place, you can now focus your attention on decorating, accessorizing, and feathering the rest of your nest in general.

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