Aesthetic Organization Ideas to Overhaul Your Space
This article is all about aesthetic organization.
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If you’re anything like us, you may have let the clutter in your apartment get a little out of hand over the past few months.
We totally get it—sometimes life gets in the way of keeping your space neat and tidy, and before you know it, your bedroom, closet, kitchen, or desk have become a cluttered mess, making it impossible to remember where anything is.
If any of this sounds familiar to you, this article is for you!
We’ve rounded up our favorite creative storage solutions, so you can tackle the clutter and reorganize your space in a way that’s aesthetically pleasing, and more importantly, in a way that really lasts.
Plus, we’ve included some amazing DIY organization projects, so you don’t have to spend a pretty penny on storage bins or desk organizers in an effort to keep your space looking clean, tidy, and aesthetically pleasing.
Here are 20 Aesthetic Organization Ideas to Overhaul Your Space
General Aesthetic Organizing Ideas
Bathroom Storage Shelf
If your apartment’s bathroom is kind of small and you’re running low on storage space, a separate storage shelf or caddy is a quick and easy way to give yourself a little extra space.
At your local thrift shop or vintage store, try looking for a wicker shelf or caddy like this one, so you don’t have to sacrifice your bathroom’s aesthetic in the hunt for more storage space!
Skincare Shelf
Way back in the early years of Instagram and beauty blogs, skincare shelfies were all the rage.
If your skincare collection has gotten disorganized and out of control lately, try reorganizing your skincare using the shelves behind your mirror to recreate the skincare shelfie effect.
Color Coded Bookshelf
One of the easiest and fastest ways to make your space look more organized and aesthetically pleasing is by color coding your bookshelf.
Reorganize your books so that they form a super aesthetically pleasing rainbow gradient, a DIY organization project that takes a little time, but costs no money!
Cleaning Supplies Organization
If your cabinets are getting cluttered and it’s decreasing your motivation to deep clean your apartment, try using labeled storage bins to help keep your cleaning supplies neat and organized.
Labeled bins allow you to quickly and easily see exactly where all your supplies are and what they’re for!
Aesthetic Kitchen Organization
Aesthetic Pantry Organization
If you’re anything like us, your pantry shelves can quickly become cluttered and messy, making it hard to remember where your ingredients and snacks are, or even worse, when they expire.
Labeled acrylic boxes, wire organizers, and wicker baskets help prevent your pantry from getting overly cluttered, and make it easier to see where everything in your pantry is.
As an added bonus, the uniformity of the organizers is a lot easier on the eyes than a jumbled mess of food packaging.
Quirky Eclectic Kitchen Shelves
We love these quirky, eclectic kitchen shelves as a creative storage solution for your dishes, kitchen appliances, and kitchen decor.
If you have cute, aesthetically pleasing glassware, mugs, dishes, or vases, why not put them on display on some open shelving?
Mug Collection Storage
If your mug collection is too extensive to fit on your existing open shelving, try mounting a dowel on your kitchen wall and hanging your oversized, quirky, or otherwise hard to store mugs on some hanging hooks.
Just make sure to test the stability of the dowel and the hooks first, so you don’t accidentally break any members of your precious mug collection!
Coffee and Tea Station
If coffee and tea are integral parts of your morning and evening routines, try investing in some small drawer organizers to help keep your collection neat and organized.
These organizers make it easy to see and differentiate all the different coffees and teas in your collection.
Plus, they make it super easy to see when you’re running low on your favorite chamomile, chai, or instant coffee packets!
Cute Closet Organization Ideas
Boutique-Style Closet Organization
If you’re a shopaholic with a seriously impressive shoe, purse, or sunglass collection, try taking inspiration from this boutique-style closet.
By displaying your shoes, bags, and sunglasses facing outwards, your closet can double as decoration.
Plus, every time you get dressed in the morning, you’ll feel like you’re shopping in your own personal boutique.
Small Closet Organization
Capsule Wardrobe Rolling Rack
Rolling clothes racks are one of our favorite creative storage solutions for people with a lack of closet space in their apartment.
To take your rolling clothes rack to the next level, try hanging a seasonal capsule wardrobe on the rack—it keeps your clothes rack looking organized and cohesive, and it’s also a style challenge that has the potential to take your personal style to the next level!
Wall Mounted Clothing Rack
This adorable wall mounted clothing rack, which hangs over a small dresser, is another creative storage solution for people without a lot of closet space.
Invest in some matching velvet hangers and display your cutest sweaters, blouses, and t-shirts on this rack for a storage solution that also doubles as room decor!
Desk Organization
Wall Mounted Pegboard Shelves
If you have too many pens, pencils, office supplies, and other knick-knacks to fit on top of your desk, try expanding your storage space by mounting a pegboard with shelves on the wall right above your desk.
As an added bonus, this is also the perfect place to put a mini cork board, whiteboard, chalkboard, or desk calendar!
Desk Hutch/Shelves
If you’re afraid to lose your security deposit and don’t want to risk mounting anything on your wall, another easy way to maximize storage and organization at your desk is with a desktop hutch or shelves.
It’s a great place to store textbooks, notebooks, and office supplies, as well as small tchotchkes or knick knacks that show off your personality and help give your desk area some extra razzle dazzle!
Kawaii Desk Shelves
We love the way these over-desk shelves are decorated in a super cute, kawaii, aesthetically pleasing style that’s colorful, but still cohesive.
We’re especially obsessed with the tiny acrylic shelves that are used to store this desk owner’s collection of adorable mini figurines!
DIY Desk Decor
If you’re looking for a quick and easy DIY organization project, try making your own desktop gallery wall using any postcards, magazine clippings, or sentimental photos you have lying around.
Another of our favorite aspects of this DIY desk decor is the repurposed glass bottles that are used as vases for growing houseplants!
Aesthetic Bedroom Organization
Aesthetic Vanity Setup
If you’re looking for a way to store and organize your makeup collection, why not turn your desk, dresser, or nightside table into an aesthetic vanity?
With just a few acrylic organizers, jewelry boxes, and dainty dishes, many of which are easily thriftable, your makeup collection can double as room decor!
Dresser Top Organization
We love the way that this dresser incorporates a wall-mounted pegboard to store extra items of skincare, necklaces, hair ties, and other miscellaneous items that you might need while getting ready.
DIY Necklace Organizer
This DIY necklace organizer is one of the most classic DIY organization projects out there.
With a thrifted frame, some burlap, and some hooks, you can create a super cute, twee-inspired DIY necklace organizer that helps keep your jewelry visible, organized, and most importantly, untangled.
Nightstand Drawer Organizers
If your nightstand essentials, like lip balm, hand lotion, hair ties, and eye masks, are getting jumbled and disorganized, these nightstand drawer organizers are the perfect way to keep everything neat and tidy.
Keeping your apartment organized can feel like an uphill battle sometimes.
If you’re struggling to keep your stuff neat, tidy, and easy to find, while also balancing your dream of having a super cute, cohesive, aesthetically pleasing apartment, we hope these creative storage solutions spark some inspiration for you!
With these ideas, you’ll soon find that having a cute apartment and having an organized apartment can totally coexist.
