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Yes I know we are in May, and it took me longer than I expected to get these blog post live, but better late than never right??

Each month I have been picking one area of my house to declutter, this is the easiest way I found to be able to actually declutter and keep my home organized, and not get overwhelmed. If you need help deciding how to start make sure you check out my How to Declutter & Organize your Entire House with a Busy Schedule blog post.

Recap of the spaces we’ve already decluttered, and some of the spaces to come.

February- Kitchen

March- Family Room

April- Bathrooms

May- Clothes

Decluttering our family was the easiest and fastest room to declutter. This might look different for everyone, if you have kids chances are your family room is filled with toys.

Tips for decluttering your own living room

Have a plan

On the blog post “How to Declutter & Organize your entire House with a Busy Schedule”  I included some pretty awesome  templates to help you plan out what you are going to declutter on a monthly basis.

CLICK HERE to download this printable declutter list, you can also print a blank one HERE.

I decided to pick one area of the house per month, and wrote every section of that area I wanted to declutter. You can CLICK HERE to read more about that.

CLICK HERE to download the printable monthly declutter schedule.

Tackle the most time consuming area on days you are off

For our family room the junk dresser was definitely the most time consuming area to declutter, yes I said a whole junk DRESSER not just one drawer. So I made sure to do it on a day I was off and didn’t have errands to run.

If you didn’t remember you had it do you really need it?

Probably not, because if you did you would remember you had it. Look around and see what you haven’t used in years, and get rid of it so you can make space for the stuff you actually use.

Remove any decoration that you no longer like, or never really loved 

Do you really need all those DVDs?

I am pretty sure we had over 100 DVDs, yet we rarely ever touched them anymore (they were all ridiculously dusty). We decided to keep the Disney DVDs as well as a few other movies & shows that we really loved and have watched multiple times.

If you have kids-Decide what toys you will keep

Look through all the toys and decide what needs to be thrown away donated. kept, or rotated out.

If you can’t let go of it because you might need it one day

Then put it in a box or bag in your garage and if it stays untouched for a month or two, then you really don’t need it just say goodbye. I am very guilty of this I hold on to things because I might need it one day, in reality it stays untouched for years.

Tackling specific areas of your family room

Toys

After you have decided what toys you will keep, designate one or two basket for those toys. This will look different depending on how many kids you have. We have only one basket of toys in the family room, because Aiden has his own playroom so we only keep a few toys in there.

If your family room is your child’s play room, the I would suggest getting a shelve with hidden storage that blends in with your decor.

DVD storage

When it comes to DVD’s, having them in some sort of storage container out of site makes your space looks cleaner and more organized. Even if the DVD’s are just thrown in there.

We decided to go with these basket, we’ve had them for a while so I could not find the exact ones but I linked some other options for you here and here. You really can’t go wrong with any baskets as long as you get one that you can’t see what’s inside while is is displayed.

The junk drawer / dresser

In our case it was the junk dresser, I am guilty of literally throwing in there everything that didn’t have a home. All of the drawers were overflowing to the point that I had to push stuff down to be able to close the drawer.

This is how we organized our dresser, this will look different based on your life style.

I separated most of these drawers with these baskets we had our basement, they use to be in our pantry

Shelving

I wanted to keep this as clean and clutter free possible, the less things you have on display the cleaner your family room will look.

We actually installed these shelvers on our own, this was just an empty space so we installed wood panels on the wall and purchased wood boards painted them white and installed them on the wall.

Here’s the before and after

Fireplace Mantle

The decoration of this space changes base on the season we are in, most of the year it stays like this and I usually add more decoration for various holidays.

Here are some other holiday decors of our fire place mantle

Halloween

You can see more details in this blog post here.

Christmas

You can see more details in this blog post here

This room was one of the easiest space for us to declutter because we didn’t have that many things to beginning with, except for the junk dresser.