Home Organization Challenge for Spring

Spring is the perfect time for a fresh start, and what better way to embrace the season than with a Spring Home Organization Challenge?

As the weather warms, we’re shifting our focus to the outdoor zone of our home—tackling spaces like the garage, porch, vehicles, and yard.

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Front porch organized during the spring challenge.

But don’t worry—this is a self-paced challenge, so you don’t have to work outside if it’s still cold where you live.

You can work on any area of your home that needs attention!

But, if you’re anything like us, you probably need to declutter your garage, refresh your porches, and spruce up the yard, so this challenge will help you tackle these areas (or any spaces you define) in the months ahead.

Ready to get started?

Here we go!

Table of Contents

Organize by the Season

Garage organized during the spring challenge.

If you’re new here and wondering about our process, here’s a little explanation.

Each season, we organize one zone of our home!

Here are the zones:

Outdoor Zone (Spring): When the weather is nice, we tackle the outdoor spaces of our home, including the garage (shed), porch (patio, deck), attic (unfinished basement), cars (camper, boat), and yard.
Personal Living Zone (Summer): These rooms are personal to each individual who lives in our home: primary bedroom, additional bedrooms, closets (bedroom, linen, cleaning), primary bathroom, and extra bathrooms.
Entertaining Zone (Fall): The main rooms a guest would frequent when coming to our home: entryway, living room, dining room, family/playroom, and guest bedroom/bathroom.
Working Zone (Winter): We regularly work in the office, kitchen, and laundry rooms. The kitchen is a big job, so we separate it from the pantry. We do the same in my office by organizing the paper clutter and craft supplies on different days.

Now that you know how our seasonal challenges work, let’s discuss what’s happening this spring!

Join The Spring Home Organization Challenge

Angel lawn statue in a mulched flower bed.

We will be tackling the outdoor zone of our home during spring, but this is a self-guided challenge, so you can work at your own pace and tackle any space you like.

You don’t need to officially “sign up” for the challenge, but if you’d like to use our free printable guide and goal sheets, you need to sign up for our email list here to gain access to our free resource library.

To actively participate, do these steps:

Spring Home Organization goals printable checklist.

Get a binder.
Access the Home Organization Challenge Binder sheets by clicking on the Free Resources link at the top of the page. Then, type in the password you received when you signed up for our email list.
Print and fill out the goal, calendar, and seasonal room sheets.
Organize at your own pace.
Find a partner- You will more likely succeed if someone holds you accountable for following your goals. Contact a friend or a relative who can go on this journey with you.
Search the blog for tips and pictures of how we organized our home to inspire you.
Open our Seasonal Sentiments Rewind Newsletter on the last day of each month. We share weekly organizational tasks to keep you motivated throughout the year.
Follow us on social media: Pinterest, Instagram, and Facebook.

Did We Meet Our Goals For The Last Challenge?

Kitchen appliances organized in a cabinet.

Reflecting on our Winter Home Organization Challenge, it’s time to assess our progress!

Let’s discuss the tasks we accomplished, and which ones still need attention.

Goals we met

I’m happy to report that we almost met all of our goals.

One took quite a bit longer to complete, but it’s almost finished!

Here’s what we did in our home’s working zones (kitchen, office, laundry room).

First, we freed up our cramped cabinets and organized our kitchen appliances!
Then, we finally figured out a clever way to organize our grill tools. It’s working so well; I wish we had done it sooner!
We needed a better way to organize our large platters, so Rich built me a plate rack in the kitchen! It’s finished and we’ll be sharing the DIY soon! I can’t wait for you to see it, it’s so pretty!
In the office, we switched our storage shelves but did not change any of our organization systems. (So, there is no new post, but you can see our last year’s organized office here.) We have a big home improvement project we’re working on, so we moved the shelves from our living room into the office, and the old office shelves went upstairs to store home decor items (which we’ll discuss in a minute.)
The laundry room is one of the few spaces in our home that stays neat and tidy all year long. It functions very well and just needed some deep cleaning! You can see the last time we organized the laundry room here.
Purged last year’s papers from our files. We still have not gone totally digital, if you’re in the same place, you can see how we organize paperwork here.

Goals we did not meet

Guess what? I finally tackled the sitting room off our guest bedroom! It’s where I store all of my out-of-season home decor items. It was a mess, and I felt completely overwhelmed and kept procrastinating. But the good news is, it’s looking great and I’m almost finished organizing it. It has inspired me to write a post about how to organize when you feel overwhelmed by a space! Look for that in the near future!
And the goal we did not meet—purging digital clutter! You all, I just keep procrastinating on this. It’s so silly, but I can’t find a strategy that I’ll stick to! I just need to add a time block to my day to tackle this, but other things seem way more important. I do it for a while and then let other items take precedence. Someday, I’ll reach a zero inbox! If you have any good advice, let me know!

Conclusion

We’re ready to set new goals for our spring home organization challenge and get outside to spruce up our outdoor spaces!

We hope you’re excited to take steps to refresh and organize your home this season, too!

Whether you plan to tackle your outdoor spaces or focus on a different area that needs attention, every bit of progress counts.

Remember, home organization is an ongoing journey, and small, consistent efforts lead to big results.

Stay motivated by revisiting your goals, checking off completed tasks, and celebrating your accomplishments.

For more help, be sure to open our Seasonal Sentiments Rewind Newsletter at the end of each month for continued inspiration and organization tips.

Let’s get the momentum going for the spring home organization challenge and make this a season of transformation!

Blessings, Donna and Rich

More Inspiration

Here are posts to help you organize the outdoor spaces of your home:

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Comments

CoCo says

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Love that you share these seasonal decluttering and organizing goals, Donna. They help so much! Our garage is a constant source of crazy and yours always gives me a burst of inspiration. I simply have too many home decor items that I’ve kept over the years for seasonal vignettes and projects that I need to let go! On a side note, I’m giving up procrastination for Lent and I can’t wait to hear your tips and tricks! Cheering you on as you continue to make progress on your goals, CoCo

- Donna Allen says
  
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  Thanks CoCo! The challenge helps keep me on track, otherwise I would procrastinate a lot more, lol! If I didn’t set goals, I would never get anything done! Thanks for stopping by and happy organizing!