Time to tidy up the home? Discover common mistakes that are best avoided

Tidying up the house is a necessity we have to face in order to live in our homes in a relaxed and stress-free way, and to do this we can use many tips to make this chore easier. The tidying up of our living spaces, in fact, can become an opportunity to reconsider the layout of the rooms we live in every day, and which experience the most family traffic.

This is about giving priority to everything we really need for our daily activities, and at the same time, it is important that the various solutions we are looking for also satisfy our aesthetic tastes. Perhaps, for example, we are in search of a uniformity of style throughout our home, and our solutions need to reflect these preferences. On the internet we can find a thousand ideas, sometimes really good ones - but often there are some that perhaps it is better to avoid.

Organizing by color

There is a design trend that is becoming increasingly popular on social media networks for some time: rearranging a wardrobe, bookcases and furniture in general according to their color, effectively creating rainbows in the home. Undoubtedly it is a choice which leads to great visual impact, and in the case of the clothes, it works both if they are enclosed in furniture with doors, and if hung inside an immaculate wardrobe compartment.

There is a down-side to this design choice, however: with all the other items on the shelves exposed, it can create a lot of clutter visually - unless the rooms and furniture are all white or decorated in neutral colors.

Transparent containers

Use transparent containers: these are cheap, they allow you to immediately see what they contain, and there is no risk of them shattering like glass recepticles. But even here, where there is a need to reduce the chaos of shapes and colors that accumulate on the furniture, this solution is only partially successful. Transparent containers are therefore very convenient in closeable furniture or even for the kitchen pantry, but in other cases it would be perhaps be better to resort to containers which hide their contents, and preferably with labels affixed to them to help us find what we need when we need it.

Buy the containers first

It is good to have an idea of the type of baskets and boxes we will use - ideally ones that will best match the decor of the room. Of course, having a good idea of what we want is vital if we want to avoid rushing out and buying too many of the wrong ones.

In short, at the foundation of every tidying up exercise, there must be the question: what do I really need? What do I really use in this room? What reflects my daily life and my wishes? Having determined this, everything else superflous can be put aside (you give stuff away, you sell it, you store it in some unused place ...) and you will keep to hand only the objects that are really useful to you, even if they are to satisfy your aesthetic needs.

Using oversized containers for the kids' toys

In the children's room an understandable mistake is often made: filling the gaps and spaces of the room's furniture with large cube-shaped baskets and boxes to store toys in. These oversized containers are great for storing all large toys, but they lose their usefulness when we also stuff them with tiny toys and trinkets that end up on the bottom of the box and actually force us to waste a lot of time rummaging through them to find a particular, small object. Often, we have to tip the entire box out onto the floor to find what we want.

These aren't huge mistakes, of course, but avoiding them will certainly result in a huge time and money saving!