1.Cool Organizing Secrets and Spring Cleaning TipsMake Your Rooms Multitask
In a small house, each room can serve more than one purpose, says Peter Walsh. Take his guest room/TV room/office. The couch—a pullout that's perfect for guests—faces a flat-screen TV that Walsh and Greenblatt watch alone on quieter evenings.
To create a cozy home office, Walsh removed the closet doors, installed a desk and shelving, and added venetian blinds from Ikea that he can pull down to hide the workspace when visitors arrive.
Even Walsh's furniture serves more than one function: This ottoman, a handy footrest and coffee table, moonlights as storage for Walsh and Greenblatt's DVD collection, leaving the room's media console clutter-free.
2. Focus Your Fridge
Walsh uses clear plastic trays to separate cheese from condiments from baking supplies. When he's grilling outside, he simply grabs the entire condiments tray (ditto the cheese tray). Bonus: No need to scrub dried maple syrup from the far corners of his fridge.
3. Use Easy Counter Canisters
To keep the dried lentils, beans, quinoa, flour, and other ingredients you use for healthy summer meals readily available, store them in a set of stainless steel canisters (Organize.com). This way you always knows what you have—and friends can easily pitch in with the cooking.
4. Rethink Your Linen Closet
To store uniform white sheets, fold fitted sheets, top sheet, and extra pillowcases inside a pillowcase of the same set. Needless to say, you’ll never have to ransack the closet for an elusive match.
5. De-Junk Your Junk Drawer
Instead of being jammed in a kitchen drawer, household necessities like rubber bands, pencils, and glue are stacked in clear, labeled boxes of varying sizes (
Clear containers make it easy to see what needs replacing. Even better, their labels discourage the stashing of miscellany. "They don't allow you to overload your junk drawer with junk," Walsh explains
6. Establish a Free-Money Box
Inspired by the sheer dollar amount of unused gift cards and rebates he finds stashed in others' homes, Walsh corralled his various coupons, gift certificates, free gym passes, and vouchers into this brightly colored box
To avoid accumulating a drawerful of mismatched plastic containers in ten colors, Walsh uses just one brand of food storage container so lids will always fit (OXO LockTop set; Organize.com). He stacks just a few sizes in a cabinet for easy access. "Most people only really use three or four of these containers anyway," says Walsh. "There's no need to keep hundreds."
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