How to Organize Your Living Room

Our house can often fall apart in the hustle and bustle of daily life.  Indeed, we may not notice the clutter in our home while dealing with them, be it business life or school life.  Sometimes, we may encounter clutter due to some precautions that we did not take beforehand or the necessary order not being established in our room.  When we think of rooms where we will encounter clutter, the first thing that comes to mind is our living room. 

The living room is a room that is used most frequently during the day and is used by everyone in the house to spend time, to rest, to eat.  Especially for family houses, we can say that the living room is the heart of the house.  Family members often gather in this room and spend time together.  Again, living rooms are often used to host guests. 

In other words, living rooms are the rooms where we spend the most time during the day and host the most people.  As such, clutter in this room can be very common.  In this article, we will examine how we can combat clutter in our living room.

Why Should Our Living Room Be Organized?

Before we talk about how to organize our living room and fight clutter, let's talk about why we should organize our living room first.  Because knowing in advance how what we will talk about can benefit us will encourage us in this regard.  First, clutter damages the decoration in your home.  We all want our home to look beautiful.  For this, we buy new items, covers, carpets, paint the walls in different colors or use wallpapers. 

All this effort is to create a quality living space for ourselves and to host our guests in a good environment.  Especially if you care about hosting guests, it would be good to protect the decor in your living room, which is the most important reflection of your home for guests.  Beautiful decorations in our home makes us feel good.  Especially at the end of a tiring day, when you come to your living room to rest or spend time with your family and friends, clutter will prevent the creation of a calming atmosphere for you. 

This clutter is irritating and can prevent you from resting.  Finally, it is very likely that something will be lost in a messy room.  Your living room can be a unique disappearing space, especially for your small and valuable items.  Therefore, preventing clutter will mean preventing some damage that may occur.  Now let's see what we can do to avoid clutter and organize our living room.

Everything Must Be In Its Place

The biggest source of clutter in the living room is probably the items that are out of place.  Indeed, during the time we spend here, we use some items from other rooms as well as those in the living room.  At the end of use, leaving these items where they are rather than putting them in their place or putting them somewhere in the living room is usually one of the first causes of clutter in this room.  If we want to prevent clutter in our living room, the first step we will take in this regard may be related to these items. 

You can use a basket for this.  Walk around your living room with the basket you have in your hand and throw all the items that are not where they belong into this basket.  Especially as the items that should be in other rooms go into the basket, the crowd in your living room will decrease and the clutter will gradually begin to disappear.  It will also make it easier for you to remove the excess items that need to go to other rooms first to do other arrangements in your living room. 

While doing this, you can also remove the garbage left around.  It is a common situation, especially for some foods, to put their packaging aside and forget it there.  Removing such garbage is also important in terms of preventing clutter in your room.

Identify the Center of Clutter

Every room has a spot where we place our things haphazardly and where the room looks the most messy.  Especially the tops of the tables are one of the points we can count in this regard.  When we enter our room, we throw our belongings, phone and wallet on that table.  Sometimes we even use this table for our bags or bags. 

There is necessarily a zone used for this purpose in living rooms.  Maybe a corner, maybe an armchair, maybe a table top can be used for this purpose.  Anyone who enters the house and comes into the living room may place their items in this spot haphazardly.  This is one of the reasons that contributes the most to the clutter of our living room.  For this, it is necessary to create a better spot to place these items. 

It is important to disperse this crowd of items at this point.  For example, if everyone comes and puts their keys here, you can consider options such as a key ring at the entrance of your house, and more hangers if they put their jackets.  You will see that the disappearance of this messy spot contributes to the order in your room.

Layout and Benefits of Libraries

We definitely need a library to store our books.  Otherwise, we may find our books scattered around.  In this respect, having a library is very important.  However, if you are placing your bookshelf, especially in your living room, it is necessary to pay attention to its layout.  Because a messy bookcase will increase the messy look in your living room.  That's why it's important to keep order in your library.  There are many ways to organize the library. 

You can place your books in your library in alphabetical order, by size or by color.  It'll be pretty easy to find what you're looking for in a library arranged in alphabetical order.  This method is very advantageous in terms of usability.  However, with this method, you may not be able to achieve a suitable look for your room.  Because books can be in different colors and sizes.  When there is no color and size harmony between the books lined up side by side, you can still see a messy image. 

To prevent this, you can place the library according to your tastes and the requirements of your room, according to the dimensions or colors if you wish.  The trinkets and ornaments you will place in your library can also contribute to the aesthetic image you want to capture in your room.  In addition, your library can be a good place for some small items that cause clutter in your room. 

Especially by using small-scale organizers or containers, you can turn your library into a nest for some of your items, so you can prevent these items from creating a mess in the room.

Take Care of Seats

The furniture that takes up the most space and is the most visible in our living room is the armchairs.  The place and importance of armchairs is indisputable in living rooms, where we usually sit and chat with our friends and family.  While the armchairs are so prominent in this room, of course, they will be one of the points we should pay the most attention to. 

In particular, it is quite easy for the cushions of the seats to scatter from left to right.  When starting to tidy up a cluttered room, make sure the sofa cushions are in place.  Usually we can carry these pillows to a place we want to lean on and forget them there.  Or we may have just crashed it while moving and dropped it over the seat. 

The fact that these pillows are scattered left and right can create a mess in the room as well as a deficiency in the appearance of the seats.  In addition, it is important that the covers on the seats are neat in order to prevent clutter in your room.  Especially post-laid and non-fixed covers can be easily dispersed and wrinkled.  This image will also add to the clutter throughout your room.

Say Goodbye to Unnecessary Items

One of the reasons we can see as the source of clutter in our home is undoubtedly unnecessary items.  Sometimes, even if we don't use our belongings, it can be very difficult to say goodbye to them.  The space occupied by these items in our house will bring many problems for our house.  For example, if we have a shortage of storage areas in our house, the areas covered by these items will increase this problem. 

Again, when it comes to clutter in our home, we can see that these items contribute to clutter somewhere.  In our living rooms, there are items that we do not use, but that we could not throw away, and that we could not be persuaded to throw away.  Since these items are not part of the room, they directly join the clutter.  It is very important to detect these items and eliminate them when dealing with clutter. 

Convince yourself that you won't be using these items again and that they're just making a mess in your home and take action.  You will feel that your living room is refreshing.  If you have items that you do not use very often but think you will need later, you can apply to a storage service for them.  By renting a warehouse, you can place your belongings here and prevent them from taking up space and creating clutter in your home.

Find a Place for Stray Items

As we started to organize our living room and tackle clutter, we told you to grab a basket, fill it with items that don't belong here, and then place them where they belong.  So what do we do if these items don't have a specific place where they belong?  For example, TV remote, air conditioner remote, switches, etc.  If we don't have a specific space for items, they will always be lying around where we left them. 

This causes the clutter in our living room to increase.  In order to prevent this, you can set points where these items can stay permanently.  For example, you can place a key holder or remote control on one of your walls.  In addition, as we mentioned earlier, libraries can also host some items.  You can choose your library as a home, especially for such small and unspecified items.

Plan the Work You Need to Perform Later

There may be some shortcomings that you notice while arranging your living room.  For example, you may need a bookshelf, enough coffee tables or a toy basket for your child's toys.  It is possible to notice these while arranging your room.  It will come to your mind to take some precautions, especially about the things that cause problems and trouble you more often. 

However, most of the time, we make a plan in the editing phase and forget it after a while.  Keep this in mind until the next clutter clearing.  Therefore, it is important to note down the shortcomings we noticed at this stage and to make a plan to take action on this issue in the near future.

Take Care of Your Room Regularly

Living rooms are environments that are used more frequently than other rooms and that more people enter and leave.  For this reason, they want a little more than the attention you show to your other rooms.  Even if you've done all the things we've mentioned, it's quite possible to run into a mess after hosting a large group of guests.  Or, after a while after collecting all the rooms, you may find your living room already messed up while the other rooms are just as you left them. 

When we evaluate the fact that it is used more frequently and the way it is used, we can make sense of the fact that our living room is dispersed so quickly.  So even though you're avoiding some of the clutter in your living room with the tips we've mentioned, don't forget to organize and clean here often.  Otherwise, you may end up with a much more messy and dirty living room and you may have to put in a lot more effort to overcome it.