Declutter your living room in a day the best way! Am I crazy? I recently talked about decluttering your kitchen, and I thought well if you can do that, you can for sure concur decluttering your living room too.
Now I am a huge fan of organizing and decluttering your home and there are good reasons to want to declutter your living room. One reason is that this the area most guests see first or at least the most. It is best to keep this area free of clutter and mess because you never know when someone will stop by to want to hang out and chat.
Another reason is that this is your entertainment section, the place where you enjoy conversations or just put your feet up to binge watch TV so let’s give it its best by removing all the unnecessary items and reduce your clutter. Let’s get started!
Want to Declutter your Living Room in a Day? READ ON:
Entertainment Centre
Let’s start with your entertainment center. Depending on your entertainment center style, this can go from clean to unorganized in a second. Where is the remote? Do you have a nest of cables everywhere? Which movie should we watch or video games to play under a tower of cases?
This is the main focus of the living room, the area where we point our couch too so keeping it free from clutter will only help make everything run smoothly.
Start with your DVDs – If you still have any!
What can go first? DVDs! The DVDs or BlueRay that you don’t watch anymore can be donated. By doing this, you are not only giving this to a family who is actually going to use it but you are giving it a purpose again.
Remember to only keep the movies that you can’t live without watching over again or that is a classic keepsake. If you have kids who are way too old to watch kid’s movies then donate them… especially donate the VHS movies if you no longer have the player for it. Most movies are on Netflix or other streaming platforms so you really don’t have to hold on to every movie anymore.
How to Organize Movies you can’t live without?
For the movies that you can’t live without you can declutter the cases simply by buying a CD organizing case and use them for your DVDs. I have a cool way to organize my family’s DVDs and video games that you can check out.
Of course, you don’t have to only use this for DVDs but this solution works the same for CDs as well. Just keep the ones you will actually listen to or that is your absolute favourite singer or band.
Lastly, don’t forget to TOSS/RECYCLE:
- Remote controls that don’t work.
- Dried plants
- Recycle outdated electronics.
Bookshelf
Bookshelves are the worst sometimes, that is only if you don’t keep them clean. Unfortunately, these days bookshelves are victims of getting things just toss about on. We can get a little lazy when it comes to always have to keep items in their place.
I know that for sure, the bookshelves in my home tend to never stay clean. Not to mention it seems to always look like a tornado has tossed just about everything except the kitchen sink. It’s one of those “I’ll get to it later” areas. Well let’s not wait for any more time we can get to it today.
Ask yourself: Am I actually going to read all those books? Yes? No? If not, donate it!
Ask yourself: Am I actually going to read all those books? Yes? No? If not, donate it!
That is the same for magazines. For magazines, we love shiny glossy pictures or even awesome recipes we want to try someday. Well, you don’t need to keep the entire magazine for that purpose. Simply keep the pictures or recipes in a folder and recycle the rest.
Other Items you can Declutter in your living room Bookshelf:
If you store pens, make sure to toss away old pens with dried ink. However, if these pens are keepsake pens from an island or trip you went on, you can keep those and get rid of the rest along with old unused batteries.
Speaking about batteries. To reduce the number of batteries that come through your home, consider buying reusable batteries. For my family, I love keeping them organized in a storage container along with the charger in the same spot.
Lastly, don’t forget to DONATE/TOSS/CLEAN:
- Donate board games you no longer play with.
- Unused vases and frames.
- Go through binders and get rid of non-important papers.
- Don’t keep anything that is broken or worn.
- Dust and clean the shelves at least weekly to make it from looking like a haunted house.
Toy Box
This is for families! Sometimes we just need toys in the living room to keep an eye on the little one. Toys can definitely get messy. If you have a toy box in the living room be sure to go through the toys. It can collect very easily so be sure to motivate your young kids to get organized.
Broken toys can be thrown away. I am talking about those that are missing a head or leg or most of their body. Let’s face it we always say we are going to get it fixed, but if we are being honest we never have the time to do that. What I don’t recommend is donating any broken toys since they are only going to throw them away.
Donate the toys that are still in good condition, that are not broken or completely not playable. Another child would love to play with these toys. By donating, you are keeping the cycle going and giving toys another life.
Think about donating the toys that are not being played with such as:
- Stuffed animals
- Legos
- Blocks
- Barbies
- Cars
- and more.
Keep only the ones that will be played with and/or ones that were a special keepsake. Now, when I say keepsake doesn’t mean every toy every friend and family member bought your child… you can’t keep them all. Trust me, you can’t keep them all! Don’t feel bad about donating gifts because let’s face it, kids grow and your friends/family will buy more.
Final Thoughts
Are you ready to declutter your living room in a day the best way? By removing all that you can out of your living room, you are creating a better environment in your home. Also, a wicked entertaining area for when a surprise guest arrives or just for yourself to enjoy.
With a little decluttering, cleaning and organizing, you will have a much better time view of your focus area. Not only will you be happier because you can find things but have less distraction around your living room.
We have toy draws in our living room so we can hide them to of sight but I really need to go through them and get rid of the old and broken stuff. Great tips! Thanks for linking up with #KCACOLS
Love that you have toy drawers in the living to hide them. I do too!
Some good ideas. We keep toys in a shelf organiser and have a ottoman under the window that stores toys AND is a window seat. Keeping on top of it is key! #KCACOLS
That is amazing! Loving the way you organize your toys!
As I have got older i like less clutter and a declutter and helps give me a sense of peace x #kcacols
Oh yes, I totally agree, Sam!
I really need to declutter 🙂 Great ideas. Thanks so much for linking up to Creative Mondays. I hope you can join us again today?
Thank you, Claire! I will definitely check it out!
I dream about spaces like this. I so need to declutter. #kcacols x
Make the dream a reality, Nancy! You got this!