Are you ever shocked by just how much stuff you’ve managed to collect in your apartment? As much as you love your belongings, if you can’t find them when you need them, you might end up resenting them rather than enjoying them. Don’t let clutter bring you down in 2016 — instead, add easy organization to your space with simple upgrades that won’t change your layout at all!
Add IKEA Bookcases Under Countertops
Make use of that empty space underneath your kitchen bar or island by building easy IKEA bookcases and upgrading them with custom touches. This inexpensive update is the perfect, non-permanent way to adapt your apartment to fit your organizing needs without making any changes to the layout.
Buy Dollar Store Baskets to Streamline Your Pantry Closet
The best way to make a pantry look orderly and put-together is by streamlining your storage using inexpensive bins or baskets. Add labels using chalkboard paint, like this pristine pantry space, and feel confident that your kitchen corners will always look pretty and organized. Find more clever organizing ideas like this one on ForRent’s apartment living page.
Keep Bed Sets in the Matching Pillow Case
This one will save you so much time unfolding and refolding sheets while you’re searching for that matching set! Keep your sets all folded up and packaged together neatly by storing each pile in one of the matching pillowcases. That way your closet will look tidy at all times, and finding that new guest set will take just one glance.
Use a Tension Rod Underneath the Sink for Cleaning Supplies
Don’t let your under-sink space become a jumble of bottles and cleaning products. Instead, bring order to that space with a single tension rod! Simply fit a tension rod snugly into the space and hang up your cleaning bottles and sprays. If you want to add a spot for sponges and other materials, slide a plastic hanging basket onto the rod too.
Or Put One Above the Sink for Towels and Cooking Supplies
Having clutter on your countertops is one of the most infuriating things for someone who spends a lot of time in the kitchen, but here’s the solution! Hang a tension rod between your cabinets or add a metal bar across the backsplash with hooks so there’s a place to put towels, sponge holders and anything else that drives you nuts.
Sort Utensils With Paint Stirrers
Bring order to your utensil drawer using free, cut-up paint stirrers. This simple grid idea can give your drawer as many compartments as your silverware needs, and it’s removable, so you can rearrange your apartment kitchen whenever necessary and you can bring it along with you on your next move.
Add Bottle Cap Toothbrush Holders to Your Bathroom Wall With Velcro
Get rid of messy countertop organizers and cups by turning simple plastic bottle caps into toothbrush holders. Just use a small piece of Velcro to stick each one up on the wall so you don’t do any damage to the bathroom wall and you can easily remove the cap and wash it when needed.
Make an Easy Produce Stand for the Kitchen Corner
Make your own vertical organizer for fresh produce so you don’t have to bother with bowls filled with fruits and veggies on your counter or kitchen table. This design is a great way to save space, not to mention an adorable way to display your tasty produce each week.
Keep Body Washes and Shampoos in Labeled Soap Containers
Say goodbye to bulky bottles crowding your shower and sleek containers slipping from your hands; it’s time to streamline your bathing experience, and you can do it easily with this clever upcycle. Just transfer your shampoos, conditioners and body washes into pump soap bottles and add labels to each one.
Turn Cardboard Boxes Into a Makeshift Shoe Organizer
The next time you get a box in the mail, hang onto it for this stroke of organizing brilliance! Bend and fold old cardboard boxes into fun and funky shoe organizers, then fit them into your coat closet or in your entryway. This idea is so simple, so useful and best of all, so free!
For more great décor ideas, check out the organizing page on Hometalk!