Welcome to Winter! Have you made a New Year’s resolution to organize your house? Or maybe you’re stuck indoors because of the cold weather and need a project to work on? Either way, we can help! There’s never been a better time to join the Winter Home Organization Challenge!
Do you dream of having an organized home but have no idea where to start?
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You can make that dream a reality by joining our Winter Challenge!
Let’s take this overwhelming task and break it down into small steps!
Some people have had success organizing their entire home during the Winter months!
If that works for you it’s fabulous!
Unfortunately, I’ve never been able to tackle my entire house in one season!
What did work for me was to spread out the tasks over the year and set goals for each season!
Let me show you what that looks like so you can organize your entire house this year!
ORGANIZE BY THE SEASON
We broke our home down into zones and assigned each zone to a season of the year!
Here are the zones of our home:
- Working Zone (Winter): The rooms we work in regularly: the office, kitchen, and laundry room. 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.
- Outdoor Zone (Spring): All outdoor spaces of our home: 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: master bedroom, additional bedrooms, closets (bedroom, linen, cleaning), master bathroom, and additional 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 and bathroom.
Now that you know how our seasonal challenges work, let’s discuss what’s happening this season!
THE Winter HOME ORGANIZATION CHALLENGE
Here are the goals we are setting for ourselves this season!
You can set the same goals or choose your own!
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Kitchen junk drawer
Please tell me we’re not the only people who have a junk drawer in their kitchen!
Fortunately. our junk drawer does not get too out of hand because we have drawer organizers in place.
Mainly we will be decluttering and reorganizing it!
Kitchen under sink cabinet
I have been putting items under my kitchen sink that I don’t use in the kitchen, can you relate?
I want to stop doing that and need to move things around.
The lazy Susan works great but I want to add some clear drawers to this area.
Kitchen pots and pans lid storage
These lid storage racks work great but they take up a lot of room.
We need this space for a large baking pan so I need to come up with a different way to store them.
Office paper and digital clutter
Every year, I clean out our paper files and say we should go completely digital.
That has not happened yet, but each year we do have less and less paper.
However, I’m tired of having paper receipts lying around the house, so we need to choose to have them emailed instead of printed!
Confession time, I do not delete emails regularly, and am embarrassed to tell you how many I have in my inbox!
I need to do a huge purge. and come up with a strategy to address this issue!
Laundry room pet station
We were supposed to tackle this project in the Fall and we didn’t get to it.
Keep reading below for more details about this!
DIY Home Improvement
Each season we try to do at least one home improvement project to turn our builder-grade home into a house we love!
This Winter we will focus on our kitchen!
We have lived in this house for over three years and do not have hardware on the cabinets!
So overdue on this project!
We also want to install pendant lights over the island!
If you look closely, you can see that our island is painted gray behind the stools.
We forgot about this space when we painted the kitchen walls white!
DID WE MEET OUR GOALS FOR THE PAST CHALLENGE?
We fell one project short of meeting our goal for the Fall Home Organization Challenge!
In 2023 we had to say goodbye to our 16-year-old Bichon Frise dogs, Barkely and Gracey.
I was hoping to re-organize their pet station in the laundry room for alternate use.
That didn’t happen, so I have to put it back on the list for our Winter Challenge.
We did meet the rest of our goals and they are listed below!
organization Goals we met
Our guest room closet was overflowing with throw pillows so we showed you how we organized and stored all of the pillows in our house!
To welcome Autumn, we organized a Fall Bucket List to remind us to enjoy the fun festivities that the season brings!
We shared our planner and best tips to make hosting Thanksgiving dinner easy!
Showed how we incorporate 25 Christmas Traditions to help make meaningful Christmas memories.
DIY Home Improvement Project
During the Fall, we tackled the dining room!
See our dining room makeover with a new rug, wood trim, and more!
We are so proud of our makeover and can’t wait to start a new project this winter!
So let’s start thinking about what we’re going to do this Winter!
HOW TO SET Winter HOME ORGANIZATION GOALS
Are you ready to set some goals?
Let’s get the Winter Home Organization Challenge started!
MAKE A BINDER
The first thing you need to do is make a Home Organization binder to store your printables!
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- Put your printables in a home organization binder!
- Fill out the sheets!
- Start organizing!
BE ACCOUNTABLE
Choose an accountability partner!
You will be more likely to succeed if someone holds you accountable to follow through on your goals.
Contact a friend or a relative who can go on this journey with you.
I’m sure you know someone who can use help in this area!
Subscribe to our email!
Subscribe even if you don’t want access to the printable library.
By subscribing to the blog, you can see what we’re working on each week and gain inspiration and ideas to organize or improve your spaces.
You can ask us questions in the comment section or comment on what works for you!
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WHAT WILL YOU ORGANIZE AND IMPROVE?
Now, you need to decide what space(s) to organize!
To follow our plan, print the sheet pictured above!
Print the empty sheet below if you want to organize different spaces from us!
If the thought of organizing an entire room is overwhelming, that’s okay!
Choose one item in a room to organize, like the kitchen cabinets!
If it’s too much, choose to organize one kitchen drawer!
Set yourself up to win!
Once you’ve successfully organized one space, you’ll have the confidence to do something bigger the next time!
WHEN WILL YOU DO THE WORK?
If you want to meet your goal, look at your calendar and set aside time to do the work!
This printable will help you decide what to work on each week!
COMMIT TO THE CHALLENGE
Are you ready to commit to the challenge?
If so, get a binder, set your goals, and start the Winter Home Organization Challenge!
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Blessings, Donna and Rich
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MORE HOME ORGANIZATION INSPIRATION
If you want more organizing ideas, check out a few of our other posts:
- Best Storage Solutions for Your Kitchen
- Tips to Decant Pantry Items
- How to Create an Organized and Pretty Laundry Room
- Brilliant Ways to Organize Your Office Supplies
- Must-Have Craft Supplies and How to Organize Them
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I’m featuring you when the new party starts this week – thanks for sharing with us at our To Grandma’s house we go Wednesday link party!
That’s so great! We appreciate you featuring our home organization challenge! Thanks and we’ll see ya on Wednesday!
Love that you organize by the season, Donna. Breaking things down that way makes things so much easier. I can’t wait to get started. Big hugs and happy new year, CoCo
Thanks friend! I know you love to organize as much as I do! Here’s to the best year ever!