Home Storage for the Bedroom; Organizing the Bedroom; Organize to Reduce Bedroom Clutter
Rubbermaid’s Bento collection is designed to organize items, not just provide a storage place for them. The Bento Boxes have internal flex dividers, which provide you a method of dividing the space by creating unique sections where needed. You are able to stack boxes vertically, or inside each other. Bento Toppers can act as trays, covers or lids, providing an extra layer of organization for the Bento Boxes, or hiding what’s inside. The Bento Collection is made from sturdy materials, and the heavy-duty decorative fabric enables it to work within your home’s décorating scheme.
We have gone through a process to create a bedroom that is your very own sanctuary and refuge. First, we looked at picking out a theme for the bedroom – one that you found to be relaxing and comforting.
We looked at choosing colors that worked thematically with the theme you had chosen; and colors that were appropriate for use in a bedroom to make it as calm and serene as possible. This would ensure that you receive a good night’s rest; and it would also provide you a place in which to escape, to relax and rejuvenate yourself.
Next, we looked at the little things that you can add to your bedroom to make it uniquely yours, including items that would take you to a place where you can relive past experiences over and overusing your mind to take you on small vacations.
Bookshelves Store More Than Books
Book shelves can be used to store books, storage containers, storage baskets, collections and other items.
Organization in the Bedroom
Your bedroom is your sanctuary. It is the one place in your home that is yours. It is the one place that you can escape to when you need a few moments to yourself. Nothing can make a bedroom more uncomfortable as clutter. And all too often our bedroom is the final resting place for those things that you just don’t know what else to do with.
Let’s look at setting up systems to enable you to keep your bedroom free of clutter so that even when you are tired or rushed, your bedroom continues to be that special place to escape to.
Nightstands can be one of those places where clutter builds and grows. To solve this problem, consider placing a wicker basket beside each nightstand where all the clutter can be moved to in the morning. When you or your partner is ready to retire, the books and magazines can be easily retrieved.
A bookshelf in the bedroom also provides a place to put books and magazines. The books are easy to find for use right before retiring and are easy to place on the shelf upon arising.
Make sure that plenty of hangars are available so that it is easy to hang up clothes as they are taken off.
Jewelry Organization
Jewelry can be placed in a jewelry box (see below) or stored with organizers such as those pictured above, reducing the clutter that jewelry can cause.
Using Storage Containers
Keep paper and pencil available so if it is needed when talking on the phone, or to quickly jot down notes to clear your mind so you can fall asleep without those concerns pressing in on you. These items can be stored in a decorative storage box that can also be used as a lap desk. Other things that can go in this box are clipped articles to read, personal letters set aside to read, stationary with envelopes and stamps for any replies you care to make to that personal correspondence, etc.
Stacks of hat boxes make nice storage containers for all the little things that you like to have convenient, but can make a bedroom look cluttered.
Storage boxes can also be used to store various craft supplies.
Shoes Cause Much Clutter
There are alternatives to having a pile of shoes in the corner of your bedroom or closet. Various alternatives, which can be purchased and/or built, are pictured at the right. Shoe storage that fits over a closet door is also available to help reduce the clutter if floor space is difficult to find.
Utilizing the storage solutions discussed here will go a long way toward changing an unruly bedroom into the sanctuary and refuge that you deserve.
© 2011 Cindy Murdoch
Comments: "Home Storage for the Bedroom; Organizing the Bedroom; Organize to Reduce Bedroom Clutter"
Next you need to take everything out of your closet and set it aside.
Now that you have cleaned out your space and organized what you already have, how do you know what else you need?
I love the pictures/ads. They are so organized and neat. Your idea on hanging up your heels is so unique! I've never thought of that. Great job on explaining organization!! Michele
This is a really impressive hub, Cindy! And congrats on it being a hub of the day. You have motivated me to de-clutter my closet and got me thinking about some different storage solutions for my bedroom.
convenient place thinking that we will put it in the proper cupboard etc. later. This never happen and it later become clutters in our house.
Hi Homesteadbound, I stumbled across your hub yesterday and wanted to return today. I had little information to go by, but I found you (and your hub) thanks to the striking red in the main image...and in your profile picture - an effective way to stand out!
Great hub, SharynRI
Hi HSB, good info and ideas. Getting ourself to be organized is the hardest part, despite having 'organized furnitures'. From my observation, when we are back from our shopping etc, we tend to initially put the stuff at the most convenient place thinking that we will put it in the proper cupboard etc. later. This never happen and it later become clutters in our house.
Love it Love it Love it. You know me.. all about the organization and decluttering!!
Great Job HSB!!!!
Voted up and useful!
~Lisa RusticLiving
Congratulation for the hub of the day! This is a wonderful and very useful information. Thanks for sharing. I will try some of your tips. Take care.
Great hub,You get a vote up and useful
These are fantastic ideas
Congratulations for hub of the day award. The pictures you use to illustrate the text are superb. Your ideas are wonderful.
Very useful ideas! Thanks for this well-thought-of hub.
Congratulations on the Hub of the Day award. Good timing for this hub. My husband and I just rearranged our bedroom. We got rid of most of the clutter but there is still more work to do. I will try to incorporate some of your ideas. Fantastic ideas!
I like this one, wish I can do the same to my bedroom, mine has clutters and the thing that makes it unique I think is that my dogs think it's their bedroom too.
First of all, congratulations on Hub of the Day are in order!
Secondly, I would love for my bedroom to be that organized. Perhaps one day when I am able to have a bedroom that fits more than a QS bed, dresser and chest of drawers. There isn't much room to walk, much less store stuff. My closet is stuffed with containers of works in progress (quilts) and other things I have no spot for. Next time I think a home that is less than 1000 square feet is big enough for a family of four, someone needs to smack me. :D
Hey homesteadbound! Congrats on another great Hub and Hub of the Day! Very interesting article. I need to get more organized in my bedroom. In fact, I need to get more organized with my whole house! When I was single it was easy but since I was married 3 years ago, the wife and 3 kids have added to my "stuff"! As always, you inspire me! Great job.
JSMatthew~
Congrats on this Hub of the Day--timely for New Year's organizing, and I love the heels rack! :)
This is one of my favorite kinds of hubs. Awesome ideas here. I love being organized but I tend to leave the bed to the last, which is a bad thing to do. I've been wanting my husband to build me a walk in closet like the one that Tim Taylor built for Jill on Tool Time :). I think I may be waiting a long time for this to happen. Congrats on your fabulous Hub of The Day!
Hi homesteadbound, congratulations on your gorgeous hub of the day! What lovely ideas. It is inspiring me to clear out my home and get some lovely hat boxes and funky shelving units.
There are some great examples here and they look so nice too. My home is quite small so it would be ideal for me.
I like this. Our bedroom needs a serious makeover and this hub is encouraging me to do it. I like the idea of the hat boxes. They are very attractive and useful. Finding room for clutter in the bedroom is always a challenge. Great ideas, thank you!
Love what you have!
Congratulation ! Nice and enlightening post. Keep up as i can voted up.
I loved this hub when I first read it a few weeks ago - so much inspiration to get organized, which I desperately need to do. Congratulations on hub of the day.
Congrats on Hub Of The Day HSB!! You are smokin'!!:)
Great Article Homesteadbound! I love organizational furnishings for the bedroom and house!
I just moved about 3 months ago-- and I'm STILL Unboxing!!! My place is shaping up, but it always helps to have more organizational tips and furnishings!
My last hubpage was on de-cluttering and organization-- https://hubpages.com/living/Decluttering-Your-STUF...
There are some great videos that I found on this topic! You may enjoy them, since you are into this topic! Have a lovely day, thanks for your hubpage! You have some GREAT ideas here! Thanks!
Congratulations on Hub of the Day. You have awesome pictures and wonderful organization tips. Thank you for sharing.
Congrats on Hub of the Day! Good ideas here. I've finally got my bedroom organized the way I like it, but your ideas are great. I hate clutter; it gives me a headache.
Congratulations on Hub of the Day!!!
Very nice hub! The formatting and pictures are excellent. Well done Cindy! Relish this wonderful honor. :)
homesteadbound - what a great article. I have worked on our bedroom a lot and it's finally coming along. I think making the bedroom a sanctuary is very important, it gives you a place to retreat from the craziness of life! Good job!
Congrats on HOTD! And thanks for the great de-cluttering tips.
Congratulations on earning Hub of the Day with this worthy and practical hub. Love your ideas for attractive and also functional storage.
Voted up, useful, awesome, beautiful and interesting.
This is Great! The images you used,I love these images. You gave a lot of valuable info. You get a vote up and awesome.
Thanks for haring such a unique hub.
Congrats on hub of the day!! Way to go! Beautiful pictures and great writing. Well deserved!! Now...If I could actually STAY organized, I'd be all right. Hehe. I get all organized, make everything look pretty, and a week later, it looks like I never did anything. Oh well. Great job!
I love the storage containers and shoe racks.
Congratulations with the "Hub of the Day!"
Congrats HSB on Hub of the day! ?
thanks sharing for nice wonderful information this. cry on. i vote up and follow this hubpage.
i'll be looking forward to organize my bedroom...this is a great tip...thank you homestead...
and of course congratulations for being chosen as Hub of the Day!!!
Thanks, It's really a good Idea.
Congratulations on creating an awe inspiring hub. Our rooms could definely use some love. Reducing clutter never looked so good. Your room is your personal retreat from the rest of the world. Your little home within your home. Clutter can definitely make you dread waking up and going to sleep. Imagine the effect of that on the rest of your day. Great hub. Less is definitely more. Voted up. Awesome, useful and beautiful.
Well, homesteadbound, Congratulations on Hub of the day. I like this. It is full of ideas. I have been working on getting my bedroom organized as money and motivation coincide. I have some antique trunks that I use, as well as antique hatboxes. I need to get a large jewelry armoire because I have so many little jewelry boxes around that it looks cluttered.Only thing on my nightstands though are my Kindle, a lamp and a coaster. Big drawers in them help a lot.
Wow, this helps a lot. Seriously, my bedroom (I shared with my brother) back at home and the space I'm staying in dorm are both in clutter. Tips like these give me ideas on how to make my room as clutter-free as possible. Thank you! :)
Oh and the shoes rack (the one hanging), I'll probably use when our home is renovated and I get my own bedroom soon!
Cute idea on how to store heels. We are redoing my daughter's bedroom, so may have to try that one.
HSB: congratulations on Hub of the Day!!!! Another wonderful example of your writing, style and commitment to quality. I like the leaning bookcase and have been thinking about getting one... maybe it is time.
The ideas you shared are wonderful. I like the idea about the shoes or slippers. We do tend to have lots of them piled up near the door since we don't wear shoes or slippers inside our bedroom. Would love to put some of your ideas to work the next time I get organized.
Oh do you? How lovely! It looks like an elegant little container. And I know what you mean, too, about accidentally pricking fingers with a clasp. But anyway, these days you don't have to worry so much about it hurting when getting pierced (that is, the sort that is desired! rather than the accidental sort) because now there are widely available numbing creams.
Blessings.
Why not just stick them in the nice jewelry armoire, above, that you provided the link for? Brings us back to the point about loose earrings and bedroom floors, right? But 'worse' than earrings are brooches, really, if they are on the floor and the clasp is undone. Talk about ouch! if your not wearing your flip-flops!
Blessings.
Well, I think you'd need a whole lot of earrings to make a reasonably sized sculpture, anyway. Probably including ones that dh gave you, which he hoped you would wear. (Not my problem, though.) I think you said someplace he doesn't like your tat plans either...
Enough of this, I guess! (smile)
Blessings.
Ooh, planning such a daring act of avant-garde minimalism, are you? (Far more daring than triple pierced earlobes, you know.)
Seriously, I'm sure a salon could give you a nice lobicure, with lotion and cream, so you could keep your holes feeling great. But I guess you would have to be interested enough.
Blessings. Great hub, anyway.
YW, and, following from this, I guess one could even say that some women could in theory still be elegant WITHOUT pierced ears. (Shock horror pronouncement!)(smile)
I'm sure there's truth to what you say. I guess that part of it goes beyond aesthetics and reaches to the inward and spiritual, to the extent that even the most impecunious may bear herself in a dignified manner.
Re. pierced holes; okay, I see. Just the case of keeping rings in the whole time, and that's it, then.
Oh you're very welcome.
Anyway, as hard to define that elegance sometimes is, it's equally true that it's hard to deny that it's there, also. I look forward to reading more of your hubs, anyhow.
And re. the problematic holes, you could always gauge them a little; then, when you remove the tapers, they would contract possibly to the same size as now, but be less likely to close. They'll give you good advice at your local piercing/tattoo parlor, anyway.
Sorry to read of your difficulties with your holes, anyway. You local beauty salon or piercing/tattoo parlor would certainly be able to offer helpful advice about creams and lotions for post-piercing care.
Nice hub, anyway; another one of yours which seems to be all about enhancing a quiet sense of elegance.
Great ideas! My wife and I are constantly trying to get our small apartment organized, it's that on-going, never ending project.
LOL, oh well, sounds like extra holes would for you be too 'dangerous', then.
YW.
BTW: you see what I meant in response to your earring post comment? like with 2 or 3 per earlobe needed these days, this make for more potential losses and hazards on the bedroom floor, lol.
Oh you got them, I see.
The hub I referred to was by 'thelyricwriter', and it's called 'More Great Tattoo Designs', to which you, and later I, commented. Thanks and have a great day.
YW. I did post a reply, but it didn't seem to take on the screen. (See how this one does.)
Re. your earring comment: if as the expectation and custom these days, for those who wear them, to have 2 or 3 piercings in each ear (right?), then the potential for losing earrings on the bedroom floor is proportionately increased, right? (smile)
(PS: also replied to your comment on the lyricwriter's hub on tattoos, but maybe you subscribe to notifications already.)
Yes, well, and since for those who wear them the custom and expectation these days is to have 2 or 3 piercings in each ear (right?), the potential for losing on the bedroom floor earrings that are 'on active service' also increases proportionately, right? (smile).
Voted up. Oh do I know what you mean about the challenge of clutter! And you know, loose earrings and bedroom floors really shouldn't go together! proper (and tasteful) storage is the answer!
This is a great hub, well laid out with heaps of good advice and great photos.
I hate a cluttered bedroom, love the hat box idea and the storage for shoes is very helpful.
Thank you
Great hub homesteadbound. You gave a lot of valuable info. You get a vote up and useful.
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