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The Holiday Season is officially over, and with it comes the annual question of where to put all of those new Christmas gifts and additional decorations. Most Louisiana homes have no basements or attics, so most everything seasonal is stored in other places, and that often includes the garage.

As with any major storage problem, consolidation is the first consideration. It is important to designate a location for each item grouping within the garage’s available space. For example, gardening equipment, balls and toys, bikes, seasonal decorations, off season apparel, and recycling are all good storage categories. It is very easy to get overwhelmed when trying to find a place for everything; which is why we recommend our professional team at Louisiana Custom Closets makes a visit to your home to share a free no obligation design and advice consultation.

What are your New Year’s Resolutions? Most Louisiana homeowners make dozens of resolutions about their health, fitness, and relationships; yet here at Louisiana Custom Closets, we are making 2016 resolutions about keeping the home organized!

Louisiana parents usually have time off at the end of the year and start of the New Year; it is a great time to get the home organized! After the holidays, there will be a lot of cleaning up as the season ends, and there is the traditional storage of holiday decorations and all the new presents that were purchased. While finding locations to store all of these holiday items, January is a great time to organize the closets, garage, laundry room, and pantries.

Just like the song says, “It’s the most wonderful time of the year!” Christmas is the most popular season for people to decorate, not only the interior but exterior of their home.  People spend hours if not days stringing lights, hanging ornaments and wreaths, setting up Christmas villages and nativity scenes. Here is even a television show about “over the top” decorations.

In January, when the holiday season ends, all those beautiful decorations have to be packed up and stored until the next Christmas. Louisiana Custom Closets would love to help area homeowners with efficiently storing and organizing seasonal décor to make the process of decorating for the holidays faster and more organized. The easier it is to set up and break down decorations, the more time can be spent celebrating with family and friends this Christmas Season!

Louisiana Custom Closets suggests four easy tips to organize holiday decorations in the home and garage:

Everyone stores an array of assorted items in the average home laundry room. Sets of keys, batteries, floor cleaners, shoe polishes, bath soaps, and boxes of Kleenex, bed sheets, and holiday items are often found in this central location. Many Louisiana homeowners use their laundry room to store all kinds of miscellaneous items, along with the common laundry supplies like detergent, bleach, and fabric softener.

Our design group at Louisiana Custom Closets serving clients in Southern Louisiana and across Mississippi understands that the laundry room can often be a catch-all room that stores a variety of miscellaneous household items. Our custom closets are great additions to a home, but if one area inside is disorganized; the entire house can seem a mess. In addition to storing all those interrelated household items, our professional team can offer a better storage quality within the laundry room with shelves, slide out hampers, storage and even hangers.

Louisiana Custom Closets wants to share a couple different scenarios involving the misuse of garage storage space here in Louisiana.  And at the same time, there are usually two common categories of Louisiana homeowners who want and need garage shelving solutions. One type of client is often overwhelmed with work, family activities, and long hours each and every week. The messy garage is always on the “honey do” list, yet there is never enough time to get projects started, let alone finished.