Home Furnishing Tips

Tips on organizing your life and maximizing space in your home

The Mess

People do more or less the same things at home. We read, watch TV, eat, sleep, bathe, dress and undress. And all these activities require things that have to be stored somewhere.

Start by looking at the problems of organizing, problems that most of us have. There is often too much stuff and too little help organizing our stuff.

Organize your life

It starts with organizing and finishes with storing. Organizing is about retrieval: knowing where things are and being able to find what you want when you need it.

Organizing makes life easier.

Take note of habits and routines. How do you live, what’s your taste? What does your home look like and what kind of things do you own? Do you use them often or rarely?

Then you can plan your storage in a way that works well for you and your life situation.

It’s not impossible. Just follow the five simple steps below.

IKEA’s 5 steps to getting organized:

1. Sort your things
   Group your possessions into categories that make sense to you, such as by owner, type or frequency of use and physical characteristics, but don’t create too many categories.
   
   
2. Reduce the amount
   Give away, sell or discard items that are broken, worn out or never used.
   
   
3. Assign a place
   Give each category a specific storage location. Store items close to where you will use and need them.
   
   
4. Count and measure
   Count and measure the items in your categories to determine the type and amount of space required.
   
   
5. Choose a storage solution
   Select storage solutions that match the physical requirements of your items, the space available and your tastes. This could be open or closed shelving, fitted or free-standing cabinets.

Sit back and enjoy

Once you get organized, you will have some time to do what you really want to do. You don't have to feel stressed when you come home. But perhaps most important of all - you will always be able to find what you want when you need it.

Decorating a Child's Room

Five most essential elements that make a good child's room

a. Storage
Make tidying up fun with brightly-coloured solutions such as the IKEA PS FÅNGST hanging storage, IKEA MYSTISK wall cabinet and PYRE storage basket. Such products also help to instill the importance of keeping a tidy room from a young age.

b. Selection of Furniture
Furniture in a child’s bedroom should be low enough to reach without help. Drawer and wardrobe knobs should be big and easy to manipulate. Choose furniture that comes with drawer stops to prevent children from hurting their fingers. Desks and chairs should have sturdy bases to prevent toppling.

c. Washable material
Take the trouble out of spills with machine-washable fabrics for sofas, cushions and other soft furnishings.

d. Toys
Furniture that double up as toys are twice the fun. They help to develop the children’s sense of balance, motor skills while nurturing their imagination. IKEA PS VAGGA, for instance, is a rocker/pad that children can rock, lie down, slide on and crawl underneath. The IKEA PS PUSSLA drape stimulates the senses while functioning as a room divider for added privacy.

e. Furnishings
Scare away the bogeyman with a nifty night light, such as the SMILA MÅNE wall lamp. Curtains such as KRYP SLÄNDA or TASSA SVANS also transform a room into another world.

Importance of safety in a child’s room

Play is a child’s way of understanding the world. Furniture you can clamber, jump and balance on helps improve a child’s conception of his own body and assist the learning process. Thus, it is important to create the right conditions for safe play in every room in the home. Child-safe products make play fun and also give parents peace of mind. It is also important for parents to educate their children about safety at home.