Organize and declutter when renovating your Seattle Home

HELLO ALL, CHRIS TOWN AGAIN, OWNER OF TOWN CONSTRUCTION AND DEVELOPMENT AND HERE WITH SOME MORE GREAT TIPS ON HOW TO GET ORGANIZED BEFORE REMODELING YOU SEATTLE/BELLEVUE HOME

Renovating your house is a joyful occasion! Even as you work, you get to imagine what it will look like when the renovation is finally done. The house you have made your home will only be nicer and better suited for your family. However, that doesn’t change the fact that it is a difficult thing to get through. For the duration, your beloved home might as well be a battlefield you are forced to navigate every day. If you allow it to happen, you will get overwhelmed by all the chaos and clutter renovating inevitably causes. So, how do you prevent this from happening? How do you keep your home a place of relaxation for you and your family? We are here to help answer these questions with our guide on how to organize and declutter when renovating your house!

Carefully choose the time of your renovation

Planning how to organize and declutter when renovating your house can only be done properly when you have a good grasp of when the renovation will start. You need to give yourself at least a couple of weeks to prepare! So, don’t rush and set the start date as early as possible. In addition, you need to consider the conditions you will face during the renovation. Some claim summer is the best possible season for such work, due to the good and stable weather. Others claim there are advantages to renovating during winter, including the amazingly low prices. Spring and autumn, of course, provide a certain mix of these factors. Regardless, for our purposes, you simply need to decide on a season firmly and stick to the decision.

Make a plan to protect your home from weather damage

Rain can do the most damage to your home,
so many sure you have ways to prevent water damage!

Now that you know the conditions you will be facing, it is time to prepare for them! For example, if you have chosen winter, you need to prepare to face the elements. While doing renovations, the interior of your house can easily be exposed to the elements. If it happens to rain or snow during such a time, your home could sustain severe damage. So, buy plenty of plastic wraps so that you can lay it over your furniture and floor to minimize the effects. Alternatively, during summer, you would have to contend with insects and heat for the same reason. In this case, you would prioritize ways to stay hydrated while you work and finding good bug repellents. Proper preparation is an excellent way to avoid making mistakes associated with the dos and don’ts of renovation.

Keep your family in mind

An important fact to remember when planning how to organize and declutter when renovating your house is that you will be living in it while it is worked on! So, you need to figure out ways to minimize the impact on your children. Kids can get easily stressed out in such conditions, especially if they are still attending school. This is, of course, not a concern during summer. So, think of how you can offer your child at least a few hours of peace and quiet while they are doing their school work. Take them to their grandparents and make a mini outing of it, encourage them to go to the local library, organize the work being done in your home so that it is of the quiet sort, etc. There are many options, so you are sure to find one right for you.

Know what items you will need

During the renovation, you will probably not have easy access to all of your belongings. That’s why knowing what you need in advance is as important as knowing which changes you want to make to your home! You need to plan and pack such essential items separately from everything else. Examples include enough clothes, kids’ school books, laptops or computers necessary for work, personal hygiene products, and similar. You do not want to lose track of these!

Get rid of everything you can

As we mentioned earlier, renovation is a chaotic business full of clutter. So, decluttering is something you will need on nearly a daily basis. The first round, of course, will happen long before any real work on your home starts. You need to take a careful, long look at your belongings and decide which of them you can part with. If you haven’t even thought of using an item in over a year, you can probably let it go. Of course, unless it has special sentimental value. To get the item out of your house, you can:

Give away items to your friends and family
Donate items to charity
Hold a small garage sale

Pack everything you can carefully

When you deal with the essentials and unnecessary items, it is time to pack up the rest! You want to avoid using regular boxes as much as possible. Instead, use plastic bins and containers since they can’t warp or grow mold and therefore threaten to damage your items. And don’t forget to label everything! It might seem like a chore, but if you take the time to organize your items into containers by type and clearly label every last one, it will be trivially easy to get them back to their places once the renovation is done. Alternatively, it will be a hectic mess trying to find things if you hadn’t done this! The little bit of wasted time now will save you a lot of headaches in the future.

If you have the time, you can even make a rough list of every
item in a particular box for added convenience later!

Get a self-storage unit

Getting a storage unit will allow you to get all the items you had packed up out from underfoot and safely put away, so self-storage is an essential part of the project. If you have items that require particularly stringent conditions, such as musical instruments, they will also benefit from being in storage. They won’t get damaged in the chaos of renovations, and climate-controlled storage units will keep them in perfect condition. Just don’t forget to properly organize your unit by putting the boxes you are likely to need closer to the entrance. This way, you will be able to easily and quickly access them if needed.

Make sure to get a good moving company to
transport your items to the storage!

Check on your items periodically

This goes both for the items you have put away in your storage unit and those you are keeping at home. It is practically not an issue if you have a climate-controlled storage unit, but if you don’t, you want to make sure your items are in good condition and haven’t developed mold or got damaged. This is particularly the case for books, certain clothes, and items put away in cardboard boxes. If you are diligent in your inspections, you can notice right away and nip the problem in the bud.

Final Words

Preparing your home for renovation and getting through it might be difficult, but we are sure you will manage. We will be happy if our guide on how to organize and declutter when renovating your house helps you at least a bit in your efforts. Just remember, you are doing the renovations for your family’s sake!

“Be good to your house and your house will be good to you:

All solutions for home living have some advantages and disadvantages…“There are no perfect solutions out there, only the ones that are perfect and work for you.”
Chris Town

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