10 genius ideas of MARIE KONDO for ideal home | OrgaNatic

Hello everyone and welcome back to my OrgaNatic ​​channel! To keep our

home

tidy, we carry out a certain cleaning routine every day. I used to spend a lot of time on this. But after becoming familiar with Marie Kondo's decluttering method, I learned how to get my place in order once and for all. And I must confess that it really changed my life! In today's video I am going to share with you the best

ideas

for cleaning it, which can also make your life easier. Let us begin! Perhaps the biggest mistake you make when cleaning is getting rid of unnecessary things you find at the same time.

In fact, it will be much more efficient and faster to put aside everything you don't need first, and only then start organizing your space in one go. There is no point in organizing things that should immediately leave the house. Of course, discarding things is not that easy. But this simple tip will help you stay motivated. Visualize what your

ideal

lifestyle, your dream closet, kitchen or bedroom would look like without clutter. And when you see your goal clearly, it's much easier to go for it. People often start tackling their things one room at a time. And after a few weeks or months it usually gets dirty again.

Marie Kondo believes that organizing each room separately is a fatal mistake. Instead, it's better to sort all the things you own by category and then decide what to keep and what to lose. Kondo recommends following this exact order of categories: clothing, books, papers, komono (miscellaneous things), sentimental items. The most important thing to keep in mind is that you need to designate a specific place for each item. Only then can you keep your space organized. And to organize the drawers and shelves you can use different dividers. They can be special dividers or containers or even standard shoe boxes that are probably found in any

home

.

When you know where your things belong, you save time putting them back where they belong. How sometimes we waste a lot of time thinking about where to put something. Plus, when everything is in its place, you can easily find what you need. I really like Marie Kondo's tips on how to color code your clothes. She recommends starting with the darkest shades from the left and gradually working your way up to lighter colors by hanging them to the right. At the same time, she keeps long, dark, heavy clothes in the back drawers and puts light, short clothes in the front.

This color coordination technique is visually pleasing and relaxing to the mind. We will obtain the feeling of harmony and this will fill our souls with positive energy. From the moment I organized my clothes by color in the closet and drawers, I can safely say that this is convenient and useful when I want to find something quickly. And, of course, it provides aesthetic balance and makes your home a place of peace and clarity. An interesting idea about this method is that items with similar uses and similar sizes should go together. For example, imagine if you put together something from the same category but different sizes.

In this case, smaller possessions can be easily lost or harder to find. Therefore, it is reasonable to pay attention to the size of the object and separate small objects from large ones. That way we will always know where to look for what we need quickly. And if you use drawer dividers or subdivided boxes, the organized place becomes even more orderly and functional. Marie Kondo suggests that all items we need regularly should be stored in a place where they can be easily accessed, while things we do not use frequently should be stored in hard-to-reach places. This simple rule allows us to use the available space more intelligently.

At home, I implement this rule even for small things. For example, I use a classic frying pan almost daily. That's why I keep it here within arm's reach. And with this WOC pan that I rarely use, it stores in the back of the cabinet in a harder to reach area. I need to move the entire shelf forward so I can grab it. And this requires much more effort compared to another easily accessible place. I think Marie Kondo deserves a Nobel Prize for inventing and showing us how to store folded clothes in a dresser. She recommends vertical storage for basically everything, from clothes to papers.

If you organize things vertically you will never forget what you own. Additionally, it helps to return items to their place with ease. Our things are not buried at the bottom of the pile of other things and continue to serve us faithfully. And the main advantage of this folding method is that in this way folded things keep their shape longer and better. At first it seems that it is difficult and takes too much time to place your things vertically. But when you get involved in the process, everything will happen automatically, and our boxes will delight us every time we look in them.

Clothes folded in this way take up much less space and therefore, this type of storage is

ideal

for very small closets and limited spaces. Do you agree that we often want to accumulate our clutter in cardboard boxes? It may even seem like we are organizing our home that way. The Konmari method suggests a completely different approach that involves transparent storage boxes. The main idea is that you can quickly see what's in the boxes without even moving them or removing the lids. And the attempt to hide the mess inside disappears. And of course, if you want to find something there, it will be much faster.

By the way, even in transparent boxes you can store everything vertically. Because the vertical folding technique makes everything easy to spot and hard to mess up. Often, when foods are stored in their original packaging, labels create "informational noise." And even if your house is tidy, it may still feel cluttered when you have a lot of items with information written on them. That's why by placing food in a food container, you can eliminate the "noise" these labels can create in your home. The same applies to various bottles, like this one with dishwasher detergent. Just removing the label makes the bottle look much better.

But I would recommend leaving the information on the back because it is helpful to know the ingredients and instructions for this detergent. Everything you have at home and everything you use should give you the thrill of excitement and make your life brighter. And the rest should be purged. Plus, if you only keep the items that bring you joy, cleaning will be easier and faster, since there will be fewer items to have to move or clean when you wash floors or dust. Choosing items this way means that after you're done decluttering you'll only be surrounded by items that make you happy, which is a great feeling.

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