Space at home creates peace of mind: here’s how to easily create more room!

Do you often feel stressed at home without knowing why? There is a good chance that the amount of belongings in your home is the cause. Research shows that 45% of people in the Netherlands consider a tidy home the most important factor for enjoying their living environment. What effect does a cluttered home have on you? Read the tips below and discover three steps to create more space at home and bring more peace of mind.

Step 1: Tidy your home and prevent arguments

As many as 38% of arguments at home are caused by a partner who never tidies up. Does that sound familiar? Then start decluttering. You can go through every room or begin with the most cluttered areas in your home.

Start by dividing the belongings in the room into three groups: items that can definitely go, items you use frequently and items you rarely use but that still have value. Some belongings may have significant financial value, such as a coin collection, while others may have emotional, social or status-related value, such as trophies you won with your former school team.

Tidying every room may seem like an unpleasant task, but 11% of women even find cleaning more satisfying than sex. So, it is time to get started!

Step 2: Find another place for items you rarely use

Items that you rarely use but still value can take up a surprising amount of space. Think about Christmas decorations, your barbecue, seasonal clothing and specialist tools. Old children’s toys and your grandmother’s old cabinet may also take up a lot of room, even though you hardly ever use them.

More space at home creates more peace of mind, and these are exactly the kinds of belongings you can use to free up space. You can store them outside your home in a secure, climate-controlled storage unit until you need them again. For example, you can store your summer clothes during winter and your winter clothes during summer.

Renting a storage unit does not have to be expensive either. At ALLSAFE Mini Storage, you can store twelve full moving boxes in the smallest storage unit from as little as €1.40 per week.

Step 3: Keep your home tidy and organised

Now that your home should already feel much more spacious, the final step is to keep a clear overview of your belongings. Over the course of a lifetime, we lose almost 200,000 items and spend a total of around 153 days searching for them. This creates even more stress.

To prevent this, you can introduce a few simple routines into your daily life:

Spend ten minutes tidying up before going to bed. Put children’s toys back in their storage boxes and walk through the house to place all dirty clothes in the laundry basket. Just ten minutes a day can already make a big difference.

Give certain items a fixed place. A key cabinet, for example, can prevent a lot of stress when you often lose your keys. Just make sure you actually use it!

Go through your home every six months and repeat the three steps from this blog.

Use an organising app. There are now many apps that can help you organise your home and your life. One useful free app is mrBOX, which allows you to register where your belongings are stored, whether they are inside or outside your home. This helps you create a catalogue of your possessions, so you never lose track of anything again.

These three steps should help you create more space at home and experience more peace of mind. Enjoy, or good luck with, decluttering your home! Would you like more decluttering and home styling tips? Follow us on Facebook!