A nice and tidy home is an instant mood booster. It becomes a space you enjoy living in, spending time with your loved ones, and creating memories.
Organizing and decluttering a home and all its contents is not an easy task. Most only get around to it before selling a home, but with a little bit of innovation and DIY effort, your home organization can look like something out of a magazine shoot.
How does home staging help?
If you are planning to sell your home, it would be ideal to stage it. This creates the perception that the home is lived in without being too personal. This allows home buyers to gain insight into how to use the space provided.
The idea of home staging can be a base for you to start organizing around your home, freeing up space, and getting rid of unwanted goods you held on to for a little too long.
This will be a big project, so start with one room at a time, and make your way around the house, inside and out.
Cleaning up the home and decluttering
Step one is cleaning and decluttering. You will need a few essentials. Cardboard boxes, waste bags, labels, markers, and form sheets or bubble wrap.
Now you can tackle each storage space in the room. Separate everything into three piles: keep, rehome, and toss.
Place the things you want to give away or sell in the rehome box, and everything you want to throw away can be tossed into the waste bags. Clearly mark each bag so that everything is easily identifiable.
DIY Projects for the Home
After organizing the contents of the home, you can take steps to improve the home itself. If you are planning to sell your home, this can improve the market value of your home, if not, it will make your home a more enjoyable space to be in.
Interior Projects
Some of the ways that you can improve the different rooms in your home consist of small tasks that require some effort.
For each individual room, you want to clean up the walls and lighting fixtures. You can consider giving each room a new coat of paint or wallpaper to refresh the aesthetic and feeling of the room. You can also fix up or upgrade any cabinets, faucets, and lighting fixtures that are problematic or outdated.
The furniture you no longer need can be moved into a spare room for the interim, or you can repurpose these pieces by painting them, reupholstering, or retrimming them for a more updated look. DIY upcycling projects can be a fun way to find new uses for old furniture. Pinterest and blogs have many ideas that you can experiment with and try out for yourself.
Exterior Projects
When you start working on the exterior of your home, you will have to tackle the aesthetics, the storage units, and the garage.
Some focal points of your efforts should be to repaint the outside of your home. This includes the walls, all the external facing doors, and the fences. You can also fix up any holes in your fencing, clear out downspouts and gutters, clean the chimney, and fix up the roof.
Also give some attention to the outside lighting fixtures. Make sure that they are all in working order and clearly illuminate the spaces they occupy at night.
Landscaping efforts
If you want to give a little more love to your yard, you can create a few projects and tackle them one at a time. A DIY garden is an excellent project that can turn into a frequent hobby, and you will be able to grow produce and flowers to use in your home.
If you are someone who loves entertaining, you can consider installing a fire pit or a gazebo in the middle of your garden. A poolside bar and grill area could be a perfect entertainment spot for family and friends to mingle and have fun together.
Curb appeal
This is a phrase that is often used when selling a home. It is when you beautify the outside of your home so that it looks appealing to people coming in to view the house. It gives a great first impression of the property. Curb appeal efforts can also be used to make minor changes to the look of your home.
Some efforts include trimming the grass regularly, pruning trees and shrubs, getting rid of weeds and dead plants, and cleaning up any debris and stains on your driveway or pathway.
What to do with your rehome boxes?
Now that the home has been organized and is aesthetically pleasing, what are you going to do with the boxes that you filled up with items you no longer want anymore? There are two main options: donating them or selling them.
Selling unwanted items
If you have pieces of designer clothing, jewellery, or electronics that are no longer used by your family, you can sell them. There are many online platforms that help you list these items according to their top categories, and you can make a sufficient amount of money from them. There are also options like a social media marketplace, or you can host a garage sale in your front yard. Online sales, however, give you more control of how you sell your items.
Donating unwanted items
If you have a nearby charity, you can donate items like basic clothing, books, and trinkets that they can sell in their thrift stores to generate funds for the charity. This is a fulfilling option, as these items will find homes with new people.
Conclusion
Organizing your home and rehoming unwanted items can feel cathartic. Taking on DIY projects to upgrade your home can feel fulfilling, and it will make the spaces you create more enjoyable for you and your loved ones. This process will take work and time, but with determination, you can give your home a new lease on life.
