The Ultimate Guide To Organizing Your New Space After A Move

Moving house is exciting, but it’s also an organizational disaster. You’re faced with the unholy task of packing up your life and moving it all into a new place. Most people struggle to do this and end up living the first months of their lives in a new home with boxes all over the place. From here, you keep putting things off and your new house is always a mess. 

How about we don’t let that happen anymore? Organizing your new home after a move isn’t easy, but here are some strategies that’ll make it fairly simple. 

Clear out and clean your new space

There’s nothing as bad as moving into a new home and finding it dirty or full of junk from the previous owners. While they should take care of this for you, it’s not guaranteed. You should get a move-in cleaning service to remove all the dirt and grime from this home while also clearing out everything. This leaves you with a completely blank canvas to work with – oh, and it helps if you plan this in advance and can get it done before you start moving in. 

Redecorate as much as possible before moving

Try to arrange your moving dates so you get the keys to your home a good month or so before you actually move in. This won’t always be possible, but if you manage it it makes your life far less stressful. You give yourself time to redecorate the new home as much as possible before any of your stuff goes in there. The result is a freshly made home that’s ready for all of your belongings. 

Invest in self-storage

It’s a highly clever idea to invest in self-storage when moving house. This gives you somewhere to place and organize your moving boxes before you jump into your new home. You’ll find it especially useful when downsizing as you’ll have too much stuff to fit in the smaller place and a self-storage facility gives you a chance to work out what’s staying and going. However, it’s also helpful when all of your boxes are going to the new home. Keep them in storage and you can work out what goes where while your home gets redecorated. 

Label your boxes and develop a floor plan

At this stage, you will have boxes ready to move and a fresh new home primed for you to move into. All you have to do is develop a floor plan of the new place, complete with details of what each room will be. For example, you can mention in your plan that you are adding a cozy boucle sofa in your lounge area and putting your favorite books on your bedside table.

Then, you can label your boxes depending on which room they need to be in and can move them all there in one go. Unpacking is a lot easier as you know everything in the boxes will be for the room they’re in.

The final result should be a new home with all the furniture and pieces where they should be. You can do away with the packing boxes immediately, leaving you with a nicely organized new place to start the next stage of your life in.