How to Declutter Your Home For The New Year

by Stacey Sheppard
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How to Declutter Your Home For The New Year
The new year gives us a perfect opportunity to take a long hard look at our homes and have a rethink about just how much stuff we have and whether we need to declutter to free up some space and create a calmer more comfortable environment. Whilst Spring is traditionally a time associated with big clear outs, January is an optimum time to declutter as we tend to get lots of new things over the Christmas period that need a home. The act of taking down and packing away the Christmas decorations gets us in the mood for paring back and sorting out.

Tips to Declutter and Organise Your Home

1. Start Small

Decluttering the house can seem overwhelming when you have many rooms to get through. That’s why we recommend breaking it down into smaller, more manageable tasks. An easy way to do this is to declutter by room. Work your way around the house one room at a time. If this still feels like too much, break it down further and attack one area of a room at a time. This way you have lots of little wins to celebrate that will keep you motivated and on track.

2. Set Time Limits

It may be helpful to set yourself time limits per room so that you don’t get distracted and can stay on schedule. Just do whatever you can in the time limit and then move on once the time is up. Remember, doing something is better than doing nothing, even if you don’t finish.

3. Be Ruthless

You will need to be ruthless when you declutter and organise your home. It will be tempting to get caught up in the emotions of your belongings, but this is why we need to take a more detached and practical approach. It might help to get five bags or boxes ready: keep, sell, bin, recycle, donate. Get rid of anything you don’t use, wear or love.

4. Organise Your Belongings

Once you have decluttered as much as you can, you need to find a home for all the belongings that you want to keep. You want to avoid having piles of unnecessary items on your surfaces. This makes it harder to clean and clutter is not good for our mental health.

Now that we have a strategy for decluttering in place, we’d like to share some of our decluttering tips and tricks with you for the rooms in your home.

Decluttering the Hallway

Hallways are extremely important and often overlooked areas of the home. They are the first thing we see when we enter the home so they create an immediate impression on us and our guests. 

Try placing a bench with a basket by your front door to make it easy for people to remove their shoes and store them tidily away. Built-in storage or coat cupboards are ideal but if you don’t have this luxury, make sure you provide adequate hooks, coat stands, clothes rails or luggage racks for hanging coats, hats and other items of outdoor wear. 

Console tables also come in handy for creating a drop off station for keys, wallets, post and other small items. Again, bowls and trays will help to keep everything nicely organised and close to hand. 

So those are our decluttering tips for organising your home in the New Year. You may find it helpful to make yourself a decluttering checklist to work through or to create a decluttering challenge that you can work towards in January. If all this still seems too much for you, you can always seek out the services of a local decluttering professional to help you. 

Here are some of our favourite storage products to help you declutter your home.

Console tables also come in handy for creating a drop off station for keys, wallets, post and other small items. Again, bowls and trays will help to keep everything nicely organised and close to hand. 

So those are our decluttering tips for organising your home in the New Year. You may find it helpful to make yourself a decluttering checklist to work through or to create a decluttering challenge that you can work towards in January. If all this still seems too much for you, you can always seek out the services of a local decluttering professional to help you. 

Here are some of our favourite storage products to help you declutter your home.