How to Get Started Organizing Your Entire Home

Wondering how to get started organizing your entire home? It doesn’t have to be an overwhelming process!

Steps to Organize Your Home In One Year

We’ll break down the job into manageable steps and then set goals to organize everything from stacks of clothes to piles of paper!

Get started organizing now and you can transform your entire home in one year!

Organize by Seasons

Consider the Season of the Year

First, consider the season of the year because the temperature outside can make or break your motivation to start organizing.

Believe me, it’s no fun organizing the garage in 90-degree heat.

What’s happening during a particular season of the year can make a difference too.

It just makes sense to organize your office space and paper clutter at the beginning of each year so tax season won’t be overwhelming.

Organize your entertaining spaces before the holidays so you can enjoy celebrating the season!

Consider Your Season of Life

Second, consider your season of life, what works for you now may not work for you next year.

For example, when our boys were young, I organized their bedrooms while they were at school.

That way I could get rid of toys I knew they would never part with.

I always did this right before Christmas so we would have room for whatever new toys Santa would bring!

Now, they are grown and organize their bedrooms in the summer while home from school.

That’s one of the things I love about this strategy, it can change as your needs change.

Divide your home into zones

I have divided our home into four zones.

This allows us to focus on one zone each season.

I labeled each zone based on what happened in that area.

I named the four zones Entertaining, Working, Personal Living, and Outdoor.

Here are the areas that are in each zone:

• Entertaining Zone- Entryways, Dining Room, Great room/Family room/Playroom
• Working Zone – Laundry, Office/Paper, Kitchen/Pantry
• Personal Living Zone – Bathrooms, Bedrooms, Closets
• Outdoor Zone – Porch/Patio, Garage/Shed, Car/Camper/Boat

ALLOCATE EACH ZONE TO A SEASON

Here’s what works best for us:

• Winter (December, January, February) – Working Zone
• Spring (March, April, May) – Outdoor Zone
• Summer (June, July, August) – Personal Living Zone
• Fall (September, October, November) – Entertaining Zone

Winter

In the winter, when it’s cold outside, I tackle the working zone.

However, during December we organize and prepare for the holidays!

Then, in the New Year, we tackle the kitchen and office.

Spring

During Spring, when the weather warms we are excited to get outside.

I feel very motivated to spruce up my porches and patio and make my outdoor living spaces inhabitable again!

It’s a great time to organize the garage and to prep our cars for travel!

Summer

In the summer, when it’s too hot to be working outside, we focus on our personal living spaces.

We organize the bedrooms, closets, and bathrooms!!!

Fall

During Fall we organize the Entertaining zone.

These are the spaces that guests see and spend time in when they visit your home.

We have a lot of family and friends over during the holidays and this helps me prepare for them.

GET STARTED organizing your entire home

Now you know how we break down the year into manageable steps, it’s time to get started organizing your home!

Are you ready to give it a try?

Create a Home Organization Binder

Here are the steps to create a Home Organization binder:

1. Sign up for our email list here to give you access to our free printable library! Plus, you won’t miss any great organizing advice we post!
2. Print the sheets that you need to start the process. Put the sheets in a binder so you have a neat and organized method to follow season after season!
3. Fill in the printable pages to decide what you will organize first.
4. Read the post “Six-step Strategy to Organize Any Space in Your Home”

Are you ready to get started organizing your entire home? It might seem overwhelming now but we are here to help you through every step of the way!

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Blessings, Rich & Donna