When I come to a client’s home for the first time I always ask them to show me the room they want to organize first, and it is oftentimes a kid’s room. It’s one of the messiest rooms in the house, no matter how often you organize it.
Although you should never expect it to be perfectly in order, there are a few things you can do to make your life easier when it comes to organizing a kid’s room.
1. Involve Your Child
Organizing solutions must fit your child. Lower a hanging rod, buy small hangers, take lids off the bins, and make it easy for them to put things away. And if you involve them in the process there is a better chance of them maintaining an organized room.
2. Toys
Decluttering
Decluttering is the first step in organizing the kids’ room. Take time to sit with your child in the room and go through toys, sorting them into three piles: keep, donate, and throw away.
Studies say that fewer toys are actually better for your child. Having fewer toys promotes creativity and social skills development, improves attention, and teaches them to take better care of things they already have. If I didn’t convince you to have fewer toys maybe this article will “Why Fewer Toys Will Benefit Your Kids”.
Rotate Toys.
If you already have many toys, and you do not wish to get rid of them because you’ve spent a lot of money – stop buying and start rotating. Simply, put half of the toys in storage, bring them out on a rainy day, and let kids decide what they want to store away. It will be like brand new toys for them.
Favorite ways to organize toys.
IKEA has a nice toy storage system or you can go for a shelf unit with bins, that you can buy almost anywhere (Home Depot, Walmart, Canadian Tire, IKEA).
3. Clothes
If you have one of those closet systems with wired shelves in your child’s room it is probably not very functional for small clothes. You can buy bins, label them and place them on the shelves. Or take out part, or all of the system, and install a better one. This particular one is BOAXEL from IKEA. You can create any combination that will fit your needs.