5 Organization Tips for a Clutter-Free Linen Closet | How To Fold Towels & Sheets | Real Simple

Hi, I'm Brandi, we're going to reorganize my

linen

closet

and I'm going to show you how to

fold

your

towels

and

sheets

for maximum storage space before you start organizing the

clutter

, remove all those old

towels

, blankets, holy

sheets

, a Often animal shelters will be happy to accept them. your leftover blankets, the general rule of thumb is to have two to three sets of sheets per bedroom and only one or two sets of sheets for your guest room. One thing to keep in mind is whether you have space where this product should be in the place where you use it.

On a daily basis, for example, I store my toilet paper in the bathroom, so having a stock in my

linen

closet

isn't

real

ly useful. plan, plan, plan before you buy anything, go crazy online and start buying all these pretty baskets and containers, measure your space. take it out and then shop at home. I

real

ized that I have so many great baskets, bins, and bins that I don't use or that could be better used in my linen closet. When purchasing items, make sure you choose things you can afford. Come back easily, you will be surprised how much you don't need to organize your space and I think a big takeaway here is that when you start organizing and purging you really realize how much abundance you already have, organizing bedding in each room is very useful.

You see, I have a container for Millie's room, my son's room, the master bedroom and the guest room, nothing is out of place, it's so easy to grab that curve and go change the bed. One of my favorite tricks for storing bedding is to put your fitted sheet, flat sheet and a pillowcase stacked in one package and then place the entire set in the other pillowcase, wrap it up and keep it in one area, it makes Making changing sheets super

simple

and convenient, this towel

fold

ing hack saves about six inches of storage. Fold the towel in half widthwise, then fold it up one-third, then fold the rest of the thirds.

Now you have this nice long piece of towel and then fold it towards the center twice and then you will have these beautiful towels where all your guests will think they are in a hotel, even folding my towels and arranging them by pattern just looks nice, clean and neat, Choose your style and choose a theme to keep the closet cohesive, this doesn't mean everything has to be this way. Matchy Matchy I found these black metal labels online and bought a chalk pen and it's very easy for me to customize what I need that label to say, but if you have a label maker that's easy too, you can just write what you need and stick with adhesive tape. is on the front, I love how the touches of white look that really match the wire basket, the natural wood handle and playing off the natural baskets.

Plus, those baskets are great for hiding different blanket prints and storing stock items, choose vertical. Fold when you store things in baskets. I did this with the washcloth and also with the hand towels. A lazy Susan is so handy for storing cleaning supplies. I can easily flip around to find exactly what I need. I can so I decanted my highlighting powder my wool dryer balls are easy to see in those clear jars and adding a label makes it so much more organized keeping the things you use every day at eye level and within arm's reach makes It's so easy and saves time to find things you use all the time, we go to the beach a lot so to make sure my kids can come here and grab their beach towels I put them on the bottom shelf which I also rolled up. the beach towel so you can easily see which towel we have, you can grab them and we have two baskets right in front of it, this linen closet brings me so much joy, it looks so good, I feel organized, I feel like there is no

clutter

, it's neat and intelligent. those labels just make me smile from ear to ear because I know exactly where everything is, everything has a home, it almost makes me feel very inspired to keep this organized and also inspired to clean and know that I don't need to buy anything new.

I have plenty of everything I need. I hope my

tips

today have given you lots of inspiration for your linen closet and helped you maximize the space you have. I'm Brandi and I'll see you next time, bye.