Home organization trends for Spring 2017

Spring is in the air, and new trends for home organization are making their way through homes across the country. Spring symbolizes a chance for many people to renew and refresh their living spaces, so why not take this opportunity to re-organize the way you store the items in your home? Below we’ve compiled a few of the big trends that are projected for Spring 2017:

Custom closet cabinets

A popular new trend in closet storage is all about customizing your options to fit your clothing and lifestyle. Custom racks to store ties and shelves for shoes that fit in the space you have are increasing in popularity. With customization, you can make sure that all of your belongings have a proper home and stored easily. Proper storage and display can help prevent the collection of clutter, because when your items are displayed nicely and in easy access, you can use the items you have and need more often.

Open storage

Rather than hiding away all your items, why not show them off? This concept is especially popular for kitchen cabinets and shelves, allowing you to showcase dishes and appliances. Open storage is also handy for bedroom closets or storage units and garage storage, as it is easy to grab and pick up items as you need them. Even better, knowing that your items are always on display is a great incentive to keep your belongings organized and uncluttered!

Maximizing space

Utilizing the space that you have is always a priority, and it can now be achieved not just through the furniture you buy, but how you designate and layout the rooms in your home. Multipurpose rooms are a new trend this spring, which allow you to get many different purposes out of the rooms in your home. For example, the guest bedroom can also be a library, and office, or a second entertainment room. Instead of specifically designating a space for guests that only visit a few times out of the year, make the room usable for your everyday life as well. These fold-up murphy beds are a great way to easily transform a guest room into an usable daily space, like an office.

Living Minimalist

For many of us, our homes and offices are at maximum capacity. We cram our storage areas, cupboards, and drawers, and then try and find even more places to store all of our valuables and possessions. What happens if you eliminated everything that you really and truly didn’t need? What would your home or office look like then? What impact would it have on your life? Could you live your life like that?

Living a minimalist life is defined by the The Minimalist website as “a tool to rid yourself of life’s excess in favour of focusing on what’s important—so you can find happiness, fulfillment, and freedom.” Essentially, it’s about living without the unnecessary and extra “things” and material possessions that clutter up so many of our lives and our spaces.

Becoming Minimalist is another blog site that documents the life of a family who made the decision to live this lifestyle. According to the blog site, the family has “found a better way to live centered on more important pursuits. It has been a journey of discovering the abundant life is actually found in owning less. And it still ranks as one the best decisions we’ve ever made.”

However, going minimalist can be a difficult transition, especially for those of us who are so accustomed to being surrounded by our possessions and the other “things” that we live with. Living completely minimalist might not be the right or wrong answer, but there is a lot of good tips and strategies that can be followed from this approach. Taking the time to go through everything in our home, and assess what is really necessary and what is not, can help eliminate all the unnecessary materials and clutter. This can also be considered before purchasing new furniture, clothes, gadgets, and more. Do you really need to replace this or buy more of that? You may find that the answer is “no” more times than you would think.

We really don’t need as much as we think we do, and can make do with a lot less than what most of us live with now. TWEET THAT!

Interested in trying to live a more minimalist life? Check out The Minimalist and Becoming Minimalist to learn more.