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After a long day, it can be easier to just leave the clothes on the floor where we drop them. However, we have clothes storage for a reason, reminds Barbara Brock, professional home organizer, and stager, founder of Barbara Brock Inc.:

‘Clothes thrown on the bedroom floor immediately make a room look smaller, unkempt, out of control and disorganized. Try using a clothes chair instead of the floor to pile clothes. This is an attempt to control the chaos. Piles of dirty clothes left around the house are not only unpleasant to look at, but they give off odors and give in to an unhealthy lifestyle.’

One of the main types of storage products professional organizers can’t live without is multi-functional furniture. In an open-plan space where you need to hide clutter for a clean-looking room, everything you add needs to work hard, says Barbara Brock, professional organizer, and home stager, past president of the RESA Staging Association:

‘If not built-in storage, consider using functional furniture such as a console with drawers behind a sofa, bookshelves framing a TV, side tables with drawers and shelves, or square puffs with space inside.’

Organizing items by categories such as dairy, condiments, and produce, as Kim has done, is positive and helps when knowing what you might need more of when replenishing or preparing a meal.