Real-life home organization, practical storage ideas, and a little less clutter.
Make Some Room is a home organization and decluttering blog built around a simple idea: your home should work for the way you actually live.
You don’t need a picture-perfect pantry, a matching set of storage containers, or an elaborate system for every drawer in the house. Sometimes you just need to figure out where to put the extra towels.
That’s what we’re here for.
Make Some Room shares practical organizing ideas, realistic decluttering strategies, storage solutions, and simple home systems designed to make everyday spaces easier to live in. From an overflowing kitchen cabinet to a closet that somehow became the final resting place for everything you didn’t know where else to put, we’re interested in solving the ordinary organizational problems that happen in real homes.
What You’ll Find on Make Some Room
Our goal is to help you create a home that’s easier to use, easier to maintain, and a little less cluttered — without turning organization into another full-time job.
You’ll find ideas and guides covering topics like:
- Home organization: Practical ways to organize kitchens, bathrooms, bedrooms, closets, entryways, basements, garages, laundry rooms, and other everyday spaces.
- Storage solutions: Ideas for making better use of cabinets, drawers, shelves, walls, awkward corners, small spaces, and the storage you already have.
- Decluttering: Realistic approaches to deciding what to keep, what to let go of, and how to prevent clutter from immediately creeping back in.
- Home systems: Simple routines and systems for paperwork, household supplies, cleaning products, seasonal items, incoming mail, and all the other stuff a home accumulates.
- Small-space organization: Ways to create useful storage when closets, cabinets, square footage, or all three are in short supply.
- Organizing products: Storage and organization products that can genuinely solve a problem — along with guidance on when you probably don’t need to buy anything at all.
- Seasonal organization: Practical ways to store and manage holiday decorations, winter gear, outdoor supplies, clothing, school items, and other things that rotate throughout the year.
Whether you’re reorganizing your entire kitchen or just trying to make one chaotic drawer slightly less irritating, both count.
Our Approach to Organizing
We like beautiful spaces. We just don’t think your home has to look like nobody lives there.
The organizing advice on Make Some Room is based on a few simple principles.
Make the space work for you.
There isn’t one “right” way to organize a home. A system is only useful if it makes sense for the people actually using it.
Frequently used items should usually be easy to reach. Things should be stored where you naturally look for them. And if a complicated organizing system falls apart every three weeks, the solution probably isn’t trying harder — it’s simplifying the system.
Use what you have when it works.
Not every organizational problem requires a shopping trip.
Before recommending a product, we look at whether rearranging, decluttering, repurposing something you already own, or simply changing where an item lives could solve the same problem.
Sometimes the answer really is a great basket. Sometimes it’s getting rid of the twelve things you don’t use that are currently inside the basket.
Organization should be maintainable.
A freshly organized space can look fantastic for a photograph and still be incredibly annoying to use.
We’re much more interested in what happens a month later.
Whenever possible, our guides focus on creating systems that are easy to maintain in everyday life, including homes shared with partners, kids, pets, roommates, and other people who may have absolutely no interest in maintaining your carefully arranged drawer dividers.
Progress beats perfection.
You don’t have to declutter your entire house this weekend.
One shelf counts. One drawer counts. Finally dealing with the pile that’s been sitting beside the stairs for six months definitely counts.
The point isn’t perfection. It’s making a little more room.
How We Create Our Content
Make Some Room is designed to be a useful resource first.
Our articles may draw from hands-on organizing projects, firsthand experience, product research, manufacturer information, established organizational principles, and other reputable sources, when appropriate.
When we research factual information, we aim to use reliable primary or authoritative sources whenever they’re available. We also regularly review existing content and update articles when information, recommendations, products, or links have changed.
We don’t publish content simply to hit a particular word count or publishing schedule. An article should answer the question it was created to answer.
Our Editorial Guidelines
Trust matters, particularly when an article recommends something you may spend money on.
These principles guide the content published on Make Some Room:
Useful comes first. Every article should help solve a real organizational, storage, decluttering, or household problem.
We aim to be accurate. Factual claims are researched and checked against reliable sources when appropriate.
Recommendations should have a reason. Products aren’t included simply because an affiliate link exists. Recommendations should solve a specific problem or offer a meaningful advantage for the situation being discussed.
Sponsored relationships are disclosed. Sponsored content, gifted products, paid partnerships, and other material relationships will be clearly identified.
Affiliate relationships are disclosed. Some links on Make Some Room may be affiliate links. If you purchase something through one of these links, we may receive a commission at no additional cost to you. Affiliate relationships do not determine our editorial conclusions or recommendations.
Content is reviewed and updated. We may revisit published guides to correct errors, replace unavailable products, update outdated information, improve instructions, or add information that makes an article more useful.
We correct mistakes. If we discover a meaningful factual error, we’ll correct it. Readers can also contact us if something appears inaccurate or unclear.
How Product Recommendations Work
Organization products can be genuinely useful. They can also become another category of stuff taking up space in your house.
We try to keep that distinction in mind.
When Make Some Room recommends storage bins, drawer dividers, shelving, hooks, baskets, organizers, or other products, we consider things like the problem the product solves, how practical it is to use, dimensions and capacity when relevant, materials, versatility, ease of maintenance, value, and available customer and manufacturer information.
When we’ve personally used or tested something, we’ll make that clear. When a recommendation is based on research rather than firsthand testing, we’ll make that clear too.
Whenever possible, we’ll also tell you when there’s a reasonable no-buy alternative.
Affiliate Disclosure
Make Some Room may participate in affiliate advertising programs.
That means some links on this website may be affiliate links. If you follow an affiliate link and make a qualifying purchase, Make Some Room may earn a small commission without increasing the price you pay.
Affiliate revenue helps support the cost of operating the website and creating new content.
A product’s inclusion in an article does not guarantee a positive recommendation, and compensation does not purchase a favorable opinion.
Individual articles containing affiliate links may also include additional disclosures where appropriate.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Make Some Room?
Make Some Room is a home organization and decluttering blog focused on practical storage ideas, realistic organizing strategies, simple household systems, and making everyday spaces easier to use.
Who is Make Some Room for?
Anyone who wants a more functional home without making organization a hobby.
Our guides are intended for real homes and real schedules, whether you’re working with a small apartment, an older home with awkward storage, a busy family household, or simply too much stuff and not enough places to put it.
Do I need to buy organizers to get organized?
Usually not.
Products can solve certain storage problems, but buying more containers isn’t automatically the same thing as becoming more organized. Many projects are better started by decluttering, grouping similar items together, and reconsidering where things are stored.
When a particular product makes a meaningful difference, we’ll explain why.
Does Make Some Room test every product it recommends?
No, and we’ll never pretend otherwise.
Some recommendations may come from products we’ve personally used or tested. Others may be selected through research that considers product specifications, materials, dimensions, intended use, manufacturer information, customer feedback, and other relevant factors.
We’ll distinguish firsthand experience from researched recommendations whenever that distinction matters.
How often is Make Some Room updated?
New guides are added over time, and existing content may be reviewed and updated as products, information, links, and recommendations change.
Our focus is building a useful library of evergreen home organization resources rather than publishing something simply because the calendar says we should.
Can I suggest an organizing problem for Make Some Room to cover?
Absolutely. Some of the best organizing questions are incredibly specific.
If there’s a cabinet, closet, drawer, room, or household problem you’d like us to tackle, you can get in touch through our Contact page.
Make a Little More Room
A better-organized home doesn’t have to start with a complete overhaul.
Start with the cabinet you hate opening. The closet you can’t find anything in. The countertop that collects everything. The pile of things you’ve been meaning to deal with.
We’ll help you figure out what to do with it.
Start exploring our latest home organization and decluttering guides, or browse by room to find your next project.