Think of your house: it’s hard to manage, isn’t it? If only you had a few
household hacks to help you really take charge of your house with
organization and style. Follow these around-the-house hacks in order to
brighten your home, make it easy to manage, and keep it lively and clean!
1- Position old doorknobs in your bathroom to hang clothes
and towels.
So often, your bathroom doesn’t have enough hanging space—and those ratty towels end up everywhere: from over your door to crumpled on the floor.
Utilize this household hack to better your bathroom sensibilities today.
- First, gather up any old doorknobs you have lying around your house. Make sure they still have their “backing” to them—the metal piece that used to be positioned on your door. Note that you can probably find these at local antique stores, as well.
- Paint the doorknobs any color you please to match your bathroom.
- Position the old doorknobs across your bathroom wall and screw or nail them into the wall securely.
- Hang your towels and clothes on the doorknobs for a cute DIY fix.
2- Create a bracelet holder on an older paper towel holder.
So often, your bracelets end up crumpled on the floor, tangled in an old
drawer, or lost to the winds! Find the perfect bracelet to match your outfit right now when you position your bracelets on an old paper towel holder, perfect to catch your eye before you exit your home.
- Find an old paper towel holder—without a roll on it.
- Paint it whatever color you like so that it matches your bedroom. Position the painted paper towel holder in your room, perhaps on your bureau.
- Position your bracelets on the paper towel holder to organize them neatly so that they’re laid out in front of you, easy for you to see.
3- Hide your ugly thermostat behind a hinged painting.
Your thermostat is a horrid, blinking appliance that can interrupt the beauty of any room. Utilize this clever hack to hide your thermostat behind your favorite canvas.
- Choose a large, pretty painting or photo on canvas.
- Place two flat hinges on the back of the canvas and then mount them to the wall in an appropriate place. Note that you can pick up these hinges at your local hardware store.
- Simply open and close the photo or painting canvas whenever you want to alter the thermostat, and don’t look at the ugly thing anymore if you don’t want to!
4- Paint your walls with polka dots with an old laundry
basket.
Have you tried to paint polka dots, only to become disappointed when your polka dots look a little lopsided? Utilize this clever hack to paint polka dots in any room of your house, on any cabinet, and on any piece of clothing!
- Tape an old laundry basket with circular holes to your wall with duct tape.
- Paint the insides of the circles with your paint color of choice. Let paint dry.
- Move the laundry basket, making sure not to disturb the paint, and continue down the line.
5- Create beautiful shelves with your old dresser drawers.
When you want to get rid of your old dresser, don’t toss away the old shelves. Instead, dress them up for remarkable, illuminating shelves you can tack onto your wall, anywhere you want!
- Remove your old dresser drawer, complete with the back.
- Paint the dresser drawer your color of choice.
- Nail the back of the drawer to your wall in a place of choice, and place your favorite items: flowers, bracelets, necklaces—anything you want! —in the drawer. Enjoy!
6- Use a wine rack for a kitchen towel holder.
Again, with the towels! But seriously: your lifestyle is amok with too many towels. Arrange them beautifully in your kitchen by hanging up an oldfashioned wine rack, and then spinning each of the towels into the wine rack. You don’t even have to alter anything about the wine rack, if you don’t want!
7- Hang your ironing board on two coat hangers.
Coat hangers are super-easy to find at your local hardware store, and they become essential elements of your home when you want to hang your loathsome ironing board. Remember that thing? The ironing board that’s currently taking up too much space in your closet—the very thing that always falls on your head when you open the door? Hang it on some coat hangers.
- Measure the length of your ironing board’s “feet.”
- Position two coat hangers this distance from each other on the wall in your closet. Screw them in with their included directions. Make sure to make them high enough on the wall to allow your ironing board to hang.
- Hang the coat hanger, and retrieve it any time you need without the usual hassle.
8- Use a shoe organizer to organize your snacks in the
pantry!
Your pantry is a constant mess. Fruit snacks are falling on the flour; power
bars are chucked to the back end. Where are the crazy straws? Where should
you keep the seasoning packets? Gosh, life is hard. But not so with this
awesome hack.
- Hang a plastic shoe organizer on the door of your pantry.
- Position your favorite snacks in their homes in the shoe organizer.
- If you please, you can organize each of the plastic pockets by taping labels on them.
9- Use an old ’90s CD tower for your bathroom organization.
All the stuff you have in your bathroom: your contact solution, your
toothpaste, your pills, and your unmentionables, can come together easily
with this awesome home hack. Everyone who lived through the explosion of CDs has an old CD tower. During this digital age, it’s time to put that thing to good use.
- Clean and paint your old CD tower however you please.
- Place the CD tower with the compartments facing up, in the area around your sink, below your mirror.
- Nail the CD tower into place, making sure it’s completely level using a level.
- Place your favorite bathroom supplies in the CD tower, and enjoy your new organization!
10- Pour your cleaning solution or laundry detergent into a drink dispenser.
Okay: so. That ugly Tide bottle currently living in your house has to go. Pour the stuff into a clear drink dispenser to easily retrieve it when you do laundry. You won’t have to utilize anything so bright and ugly as a Tide container in your laundry room. Instead, you can live a refined life!