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Home Organization 101 Week 7 – “The Linen Closet”

Posted By Toni On October 13, 2012 @ 12:00 am In Blog,Closets,Home Organization 101,linen closet,Organize,our home | Comments Disabled

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HOW TO SIGN UP:

If you would like to join our organizing challenge, sign up (here ^[5]) on the event page. Once you are signed up, join the Home Organization 101 group page on Facebook (HERE ^[6]). On this page, you can ask questions, post pictures, and support each other during this 14 week process.

I only have one rule for the challenge.

GRAB A BUTTON!

If you are joining the challenge, please place the challenge button on your blog. If you don’t have a blog, please share the challenge on your Facebook page, Twitter, or Instagram.

HOW THE CHALLENGE WORKS:

Home Organization 101 will continue for 14 weeks. Each Saturday, I will post a new “space” along with pictures of my finished space and share the process of how you can organize yours. You can take as long as you need, and once you are finished organizing your space, come back here to this post and link up your blog (with pictures) to share with all of us. If you do not have a blog, you can take pictures and share them on our Facebook group page (here ^[6]). Questions, ask away… Our facebook page is the best place to ask them. Have fun! Now lets get organized.

Week 7 – The Linen Closet

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We are already half way there… to a completely organized home! We have finished the “hard” spaces in our homes, and its downhill from here. How do you feel? I feel like I have accomplished so much these past 2 months. Today we are organizing a pretty simple space, the linen closet.

PROCESS

1. Take a pictures before you start.

2. Empty out your space… down to the last dustbunny! Its best to place everything on your bed or table (away from the closet). If you have to carry it to the bed in laundry baskets, do it. You will sort though it soon.

3. Wipe it out, dust, vacuum, mop. Make it shine and smell like lemons.

4. Now label 4 baskets/bins for sorting (keep, giveaway, other room, trash).

5. Sort through everything that was in the space. Only keep what you really use. Do you need 4 sets of sheets for each bed? Do you need 15 pillowcases? Commit to purging un-used clutter. You do not need it!

6. If you are going to use decorative baskets to organize the space, label them according to your personal needs. Mine are labeled: one for each family members sheets, pillow cases, and curtains. You may also keep extra towels, etc in your linen closet. If you need labels, here are the ones I created for my space. You can download them for free.

7. After you are finished sorting, take the “trash” to the curb, place the “giveaways” in a trash bag and put in you trunk, leave the “other room” until you are finished with the linen closet, and take the final baskets (the keep pile) back to the linen closet. Its time to organize!!

8. Line up your decorative baskets and place “like” items together. Make sure you have purged extra sheet sets, etc.. that you do not need. It takes up valuable space and you will probably never use it. Once you are finished organizing, place your baskets in the linen closet, or line up your sets of linens “with like items together” on the shelves. Label the shelves if you don’t use baskets.

9. At this point, you can spray some linen spray and take a picture. Then come back here to share with us… Link up your blog post or share your pictures with our facebook group.

Great job!!

MY LINEN CLOSET

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We have many closets in our home, but we use them for different things. This armoire, which is in our master bedroom ^[9], is perfect for our bed linens & curtains. If you are wondering, we keep all of our towels in the bathrooms.

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I purchased these baskets at Target. They fit perfectly in the armoire.

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I emptied the space out and went through and purged a lot!

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These pin style name badges ^[11] are the best labels to attach to fabric. You can also take the pin off and use a velcro sticker.

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I created linen closet label printables to share with you!! You can download them for free here ^[12]. Cardstock works best when using these but any paper will do.

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