So you have moved. Housewarming! Now your main task is to adapt to a new place as soon as possible. You probably have several dozen boxes of things in front of you. Where to begin? How to fit everything in the cabinets? How to make it so that family members easily begin to navigate in a new space, and not ask a month after the move where the spoons, towels or their clothes are stored?
Unpack what you need first.
It is better to start unpacking with the essentials – a supply of clothes for a couple of days, dishes, medicines, and more. This way you will provide yourself with the most necessary things. Then start unpacking your daily or weekly items. When laying out things, use a pre-prepared plan – this will save time and effort. Last but not least, you can unpack seasonal clothes or other things that are not constantly needed in a relaxed atmosphere.
Find an alternative to cabinets.
If the room is not yet fully furnished – say, the furniture has not yet been bought, has not yet been delivered, assembled or put in place – inexpensive floor hangers, rails or wardrobe boxes in which clothes were transported can be used for temporary storage of clothes.
Help family members navigate.
Sign the lockers so that the family can more easily navigate what is stored where. Just use special stickers with a gentle adhesive base, which can then be easily removed from the furniture. If there are none, you can take neat pieces of paper tape (it is also called masking tape).
By the way, you can sign places and containers for storage on an ongoing basis, and not only in the first weeks after the move. For example, opaque containers for bulk products or shelves in a utility closet. Great idea: sign the drawers of a small chest of drawers in the nursery, using a different day of the week for each drawer. You will see how this will speed up and facilitate the morning preparations for the garden or school.
So you have moved. Housewarming! Now your main task is to adapt to a new place as soon as possible. You probably have several dozen boxes of things in front of you. Where to begin? How to fit everything in the cabinets? How to make it so that family members easily begin to navigate in a new space, and not ask a month after the move where the spoons, towels or their clothes are stored?
Unpack what you need first.
It is better to start unpacking with the essentials – a supply of clothes for a couple of days, dishes, medicines, and more. This way you will provide yourself with the most necessary things. Then start unpacking your daily or weekly items. When laying out things, use a pre-prepared plan – this will save time and effort. Last but not least, you can unpack seasonal clothes or other things that are not constantly needed in a relaxed atmosphere.
Find an alternative to cabinets.
If the room is not yet fully furnished – say, the furniture has not yet been bought, has not yet been delivered, assembled or put in place – inexpensive floor hangers, rails or wardrobe boxes in which clothes were transported can be used for temporary storage of clothes.
Help family members navigate.
Sign the lockers so that the family can more easily navigate what is stored where. Just use special stickers with a gentle adhesive base, which can then be easily removed from the furniture. If there are none, you can take neat pieces of paper tape (it is also called masking tape).
By the way, you can sign places and containers for storage on an ongoing basis, and not only in the first weeks after the move. For example, opaque containers for bulk products or shelves in a utility closet. Great idea: sign the drawers of a small chest of drawers in the nursery, using a different day of the week for each drawer. You will see how this will speed up and facilitate the morning preparations for the garden or school.