Sometimes, a space can feel dirty not because it’s actually unclean—but because it’s disorganized. And when a space is disorganized, the mind often follows. There tends to be a bit of a cascading effect.
The key to truly keeping a space organized is twofold: Invest in the right systems to keep things tidy—and then commit to using that system, as in, put things back where they belong. We can’t help you with the latter, but over the next four days, we’ll be diving into the former: challenging you each day to work a simple, expert-tested organizational solution into your home.
We’re starting day one of this challenge with where disorganization tends to thrive: small spaces. Your task today is to identify one cluttered, underused space in your home, and transform it into some storage. Here are five ways our journalists have created order in their tiniest spaces:
