There Are Clever Tips For Organizing And Storing Your Wardrobe. 3 Tips To Keep Your Home Organized And Tidy, And Say Goodbye To The Trouble Of Rummaging.

Don't throw it away in a hurry! First draw a "life activity line diagram" for each item

Have you ever had this experience: you rummaged through three drawers just to find a pair of scissors; you moved all the dishes out of the cupboard just to get a pot. It's not that you're lazy, it's that there's something wrong with your space planning. The first step in professional storage is never to buy boxes, but to draw your own "life flow chart".

It takes ten minutes to observe your daily activity path. After getting up in the morning, first go to the bathroom to wash up, then go to the closet to change clothes, then go into the kitchen to start making breakfast, and finally change shoes at the entrance before going out. Every node on this path should be a home for items. For example, the hair dryer should be placed on the wall of the wash area rather than inside the bedroom cabinet; the coats to be worn tomorrow should be hung at an easily accessible height in the entrance rather than stacked at the bottom of the wardrobe.

The core of moving line planning, which is known as the "shortest distance of movement", is a client I once served. He went back and forth between the bathroom and the bedroom four times a day to put on makeup, thus wasting a lot of time. We added a small hook for her next to the dressing table to hang her makeup mirror and hairbands; and then installed a narrow cabinet on the side of the sink to store her commonly used skin care products. After the transformation was completed, she was able to complete all the steps while sitting in front of the dressing table, and the line of movement was shortened by 80%.

"Third points reveal and seven points hide": Use the 28/20 principle to optimize layout

Many people think that storage means hiding all items, but opening every cabinet door is a "horror scene." Really high-level layout optimization follows the 28-point principle of "three parts exposed and seven parts hidden".

Twenty percent of commonly used items need to be "exposed", and they need to be exposed in a beautiful way. The key tray in the entrance, the spice rack in the kitchen, and the common stationery on the desk. These frequently used items should be placed in an open storage area. However, pay attention to the "dew" technique: use uniform utensils for packaging, which means that the seasonings are all packed in transparent glass bottles and hung on the wall in order; choose a good-looking ceramic dish for the key plate, which has a storage function and is also a decoration.

Implement a "hiding" strategy for the remaining 80 percent of items that are infrequently used or unsightly, such as seasonal clothes, spare tissues, and maintenance tools, all stored in cabinets or drawers with doors. However, there is also the wisdom of hiding. Use drawer-type storage boxes inside the cabinet to classify scattered items to achieve "hiding within hiding." In this way, the home you usually see is fresh and you can quickly find it when you use it.

Perform "surgery" on the space: the seven-step partitioning method allows every corner to "perform its duties"

The complex state of many families stems from the lack of clear functions of the space. On a dining table, there may be items for children to complete their homework, as well as express delivery received the day before but not yet processed, and fruits that have not been eaten, including the container used by the husband to store cigarette ashes. If there is no division of areas, it will definitely fall into chaos.

In practice, I often use the "seven-step partitioning method" to reshape space:

1. Empty : Take out everything in a cabinet or area and spread it out.

2. Classification : Divided into four categories: "commonly used, uncommonly used, decorations, and to be processed".

3. Screening : This step is extremely difficult and should not be discarded casually. You must ask yourself whether you have used it in the past year, whether you felt happy when you saw it, and whether there is no substitute. If the answer is no, then deal with it resolutely.

1. 4. Determine the area, 2. Based on the moving line diagram drawn in the first step, 3. Place commonly used items in the "golden area" (the area from the line of sight to the waist), 4. Then place rarely used items in the "storage area" (the area at the top or bottom).

5. Vertical storage: Those items that can be stored vertically, such as documents, T-shirts, pot lids, etc., are all stored in a vertical manner, so that they can be scanned at a glance like books.

6. Carry out volume-fixing operations: assign fixed containers to each category, and use storage tools such as dividing boxes, telescopic rods, trays, etc. to fix their shapes.

7. Label, use a label machine or handwriting to indicate the content, especially for storage boxes and drawers.

By following this process, your drawers, which originally functioned as "black holes filled with clutter," will be transformed into "orderly grids." When you get items in the future, you no longer have to go through the difficult search of mountains and ridges.

Comparison of effects: the secret from "chaos will occur in three days" to "long-lasting orderliness"

Why can your home not look cluttered for a long time after being professionally organized? The key point is that we have constructed a "visual order" and established a "logic of return."

In the past, your home used a "stacked storage" method. Clothes were placed in piles. To take out one piece of clothing, you had to dump a pile. The dishes were also stacked. To take out a dish, you had to move a pile. This is the culprit that easily causes clutter again.

After being professionally organized, your home will present a "modular storage": use partition boxes to place socks, underwear and accessories in separate compartments in the drawers, just like small rooms; use telescopic partitions in the cabinets to separate the space into layers, and use pull-out baskets to have exclusive card slots for pots and bowls; uniformly use hangers in the wardrobe, and arrange them according to length, color and season, as clear as a clothing store.

Such a sense of order will cause you to involuntarily maintain this sense of order. Once each item has a clear place to belong, returning it to its original location ceases to be a task and becomes instinctive. In this way, the time spent looking for items is shortened, and the mood when doing housework becomes better. This is the real value of storage – not to hide items, but to organize life in an orderly manner, so that the home can have the power to heal people's hearts while adhering to the concept of minimalist life.