When season changes, it becomes crucial to have a little holiday closet organization, to secure your decorations, and use them next year. Sometimes it feels challenging to store these huge and uneven decorations in simple storage closets and boxes.
Eventually when you open them every season they are tangled, mixed up and broken, so you have to pu a lot of effort to use them again. To solve this problem, I am bringing you this guide to organize your decorations with seasonal storage ideas. Let’s dive in!
Efficiently Organize Holiday Decor
Address Clutter
First of all, whenever you are organizing a closet or storage, address the clutter and trash. It is necessary for a place to be decluttered and clean to start any organization. Separate the items you want to keep for next season from your closet and donate extra. Sort and categorize the items to avoid clutter.
Define Categories
Once you have all the decors and items with you that are cleaned, detangled and organized, divide them in categories. Make their groups like for summer, winter, spring, fall and special events like new years and Easters.
Store In Defined Containers
Use defined containers for decorations, i.e. for Christmas decorations, use large and clear storage boxes to keep them detangled and safe from ornament damage. Clear plastic containers are best for the small decoration pieces. Also, these are best to store so that you can see what’s inside them.
Mark It With B
It is good for storage organization to use labels for the boxes. Mark them with clear decoration piece name or with the season you need them in next. Label maker is a good option for you if you are organizing your whole storage.
Protection Is Necessary
Decorations necessarily have delicate items with them, like ornaments, jewels, mirrors, plastic or metal leaves and so on. If you wrap each delicate within a bubble wrap or with packing foam these items will be safe till next season and shine more. Also, whole storage protection keep them safe from dust particles, insects, moisture and damage.
Maintain It Well
Manage your regular cleaning routine along with necessary decluttering, and inspection. Keep a check on every storage box every now and then to save it from damage and breakage. Follow maintenance routine every year twice.
Store & Organize Seasonal Decor
Closet Organization
Before you start any organization, it is crucial to go through your closet, clean it well and sort items in there. Your closet can store a lot of seasonal decor in it like ornaments in plastic storage boxes and garment decorations. You may hang them in the hanger, use elevated storage, racks or hooks to keep them in place.
Attic Or Basement
Long tail or big size decorations like trees and plant pots need to go in the attic. Clean the decoration piece thoroughly, wrap it with cling film or packing paper and place it in designated place. Make sure to remove the ornaments from it and store them in a box. Basements can be a better alternative for attics.
Use Furniture Storage Well!
Under the bed storage, ottoman space and window bench storage spaces are best to store decorations safely. Wrap small objects in garment bags if not you can use tote bags and old cloth sheets to store them. Shoe boxes are good solution for wreaths, lightening ropes, fairy lights and other delicate decorations.
Use Garage For Complex Storage
Organize your garage with elevated storage solutions, shelves, cabinets and storage boxes. Because it is a climate controlled area of your home you can store seasonal decor in garage easily. Make sure to keep it moist free and clean it regularly for maximum usage. Also, it helps you with the budget because you do not have to rent a storage for this.
Incorporate Nature
Natural decor like pinecones and seashell decorations are easy to style with every season and you do not need to store them till next. Moreover, you can find them in different size and shapes every season, fresh and easy going with existing decor. Color them according to the occasion and use them. This idea is more environment friendly and does not need any further storage solution to go with.
Lightening
Add lights according to your holiday theme, i.e. Christmas, Thanks Giving, Halloween, and other cultural festivals that may bring holidays. Lights are easy to show the true color of festival, but on the other side it is somewhat tricky to store them till next season. I will suggest you to use shoe boxes or clear plastic boxes to store lights so that they do not get tangled.
Lights are known to be very stubborn when it comes to remain tangle free. So, if you face the same issue you can use a masking tape and a thin cardboard to keep them tangle free. Mark each corner with some highlighter.
Ornament Chest
This chest is designed specially to store ornaments, different small compartments are there in which you can separately place ornament to keep them safe from damage. This chest will not only keep them safe and sound from accidental breakage, lines, scratches but also paint and polish will be fresh as new every season. You can use them till next 10 seasons.
Clothing
Another important decoration item is cloth sheet. You may need many of them in respective color according to the festival. For example for fall, you may want to decorate all in orange clothings like tableware, bed covers, wall arts etc. But when it is over where to store it?
Consider a closet with hanging storage or foldable storage baskets to keep them safe and in range. Label each basket with respective decor name or with season name in which you may need these clothes again.
Store Pumpkins
Those big yellow pumpkins you decorate on Halloween, if they are natural they may go to the bin next day. But if they are decorative and artificial you may need them next season. Install rattan or bamboo baskets to store them and keep them safe from dust and breakage.
What Should I Do With Skeleton?
Large plastic bins come to your rescue when you are in a war with these huge Halloween skeletons. Not only they keep them safe from damage but also you can store them separately from all other decoration and hide them in garage. Skeletons may get dusty rusty or even yellowish with time but a proper storage can take you both to a long journey together.
Conclusion
Holiday closet organization may need a bit more attention than the other organizations. As it may need a bit more attentive sorting and pre sorting for decorative items. I suggest you that you should declutter your closet way before than you start sorting. Keep the small and delicate items in clear plastic bins with labels.
Use your attic, basement and garage to its full use. Store large and huge decoratives in there within respective storage boxes. Clean your storage space regularly. Keep the lights detangled wit the help of masking tape.
Frequently Asked Questions
Hang wreaths on a hook in a closet or you can use garment rack for them. If you are using a box, stuff soft tissues inside it so it can hold shape till next decor.
Store every item with its designated area, i.e. lounge, outdoor decor, so that you do not have to open every box for a simple glow up.
Label your decorations according to seasons, festival name and then the designated area, so that you can find them easily next year. For example, Fall- lounge area.
You can use masking tape and a thin cardboard to define and detangle the lights. Mark each end of the lights with highlighter. Roll the on the card board and store them in a shoe box or clear plastic bin.