These five ADHD-friendly ways to organize a bedroom are more specific to my kids, but can easily be adapted to anyone. I included ways you can add some of these strategies to your bedroom as well!

For us, our closet is in another “room” because there is a door. So keeping that organized is a different story than just our bedroom.

Now if you are looking to feel more confident in an organized bedroom, I highly recommend removing almost everything. Keep the bed (duh), nightstands, and lamps. But the rest? Keep it minimal to help the space stay organized.

If that isn’t a possibility because space, try these five strategies to see if they work for you!

Strategy One: Visual Guides

If you are anything like me, you love looking at visuals. Diagrams inside textbooks, flow charts, Pinterest pictures. That is why I love taking “after pictures” of spaces and printing them out.

This visual reminder can help you keep your bedroom organized. because you aren’t reading a long list of things, you just look at a visual to recreate.

So to help anyone in your family keep a space organized, use visual guides to help.

In my kiddos bedroom, we took pictures of their bed made and toys picked up. This helps them see what I mean when I say “clean up your room”.

For your space, you can take pictures so everyone using the room understands how the space needs to be left once they are done using it…like if it also is a workspace!

Strategy Two: Labelled Bins

Adding bins with labels to your bedroom will help keep the space tidy.

Why?

Because everyone knows where things go!

But there are a few ways to label the bins.

You can add text labels to bins or drawers.

Picture labels work great for younger kiddos.

Strategy Three: Necessities Only

Instead of piling all the things up on the nightstand, try keeping only the things you need at night.

For me, I have my alarm, phone charger, book, water, and pills. In my drawers, I have remotes for the tv and bed along with my daily gratitude journal.

My kids have very minimal items on their nightstands as well. This helps keep the room feeling organized because the only things out are things you use at night.

While that might not always be possible, using a tray or basket to contain a lot of the visual clutter can help the space feel more organized with little effort.

Strategy Four: In-Between Clothes Basket

If you have a pile of clothes that hangs on the floor because they aren’t totally clean enough to go back into the drawer, but not dirty enough to go in the laundry basket, chances are you could benefit from the “in-between clothes basket”.

Yes, this basket can be really helpful when it comes to making your bedroom feel organized because you won’t have piles of clothing on the floor.

Plus, you can use this basket as your clean clothes basket when you do laundry.

So this strategy helps with everyone in the house. How it works is you have a dirty clothes laundry basket and a clean clothes laundry basket.

All dirty clothes go in that laundry basket.

The clean clothes that come out of the dryer go into the clean clothes basket.

This way, if you don’t put the laundry away right away, you still have a laundry basket for dirty clothes. Making it easy to differentiate where clothing should go.

Strategy Five: Checklists

Do you have a bedtime routine?

And is that routine written down?

If not, you may want to think about writing your routine into a checklist to follow.

This process helps you create a habit, especially for ADHD brains. We can totally benefit from things written down as a visual reminder.

I have checklists for both kiddos, along with myself.

Because I found that I was staying up way too late doom scrolling instead of getting myself ready for bed.

So my checklist includes times. This way I can feel more in control of my time management.

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