Declutter Your Life: 2025 Trends in Storage Solutions

Clutter has a way of creeping back into our homes, no matter how often we tidy up. From kitchen counters to living room shelves, it can feel like an endless battle to keep spaces organised. But with the right storage solutions, you can create a home that’s not only functional but also visually calming.

In 2025, storage trends are all about efficiency, versatility, and seamless organisation. Whether it’s maximising kitchen space, creating a dedicated hobby nook, or incorporating multi-purpose furniture, these ideas will help you declutter your home and simplify your daily life.

Declutter Your Kitchen

The concept of the invisible kitchen has been gaining popularity since last year, and it’s not going anywhere. The idea is simple: decluttered kitchen counters that are a dream to come home to and are easy to clean as well.

This lends your kitchen a sleek, modern look that - admittedly - won’t appeal to everyone. However, keeping your kitchen clutter-free will never have felt easier.

The first step is to clear out cabinets and other storage spaces in your kitchen. It’s a good idea to pack everything out in the open so that it’s easier to take stock of what you’re working with. Throw out any expired food, get rid of unused cutlery (if you have a good sideboard in your home it can house less-used cutlery as well), and then carefully plan and repack all your cabinets.

This approach frees up storage space, helping you keep only the essentials on your countertops.

This exercise may take a bit of effort, but imagine entering a kitchen that feels open, clean, and clutter-free every day! The biggest trick from here is getting everyone else in the household to return appliances where they belong after using them - a battle for those of us with kids, especially.

Declutter the Rest of Your Home

There’s a useful trend that’s emerging, and it’s similar to the invisible kitchen, but instead, it applies to your whole house. Called a ‘Packing Party’, it sounds like a fun time, but the main intention is to declutter your entire home.

It begins by packing all your belongings into boxes, as though you were moving house. Keep the boxes unsealed so that you have easy access to them. Over time, take out only what you need and assign it a dedicated spot in the home.

After a few weeks, repack the boxes if necessary and then store them out of the way. The idea is that everything that unnecessarily clutters our homes will remain in the boxes and can then safely be stored away, donated to charity, or simply recycled.

And voila, you have a clutter-free home. Once done, you may want to organise what remains - especially when it comes to hobbies.

Hobby Holes

We all have hobbies in some way or form, and creating a dedicated hobby hole is trending in 2025. And it’s exactly what it sounds like.

Select a space in your home that’s out of the way but provides comfort and enough space to store your hobby-related things. Move everything related to your hobby into this space. Cube furniture offers a stylish and efficient way to keep hobby-related items accessible yet neatly tucked away.

This space doesn’t have to be a dedicated room, either. If you don’t have a spare room but have a spacious living room, turning one corner into your hobby hole could work - or else, a corner in the bedroom.

Either way, this is a good strategy for keeping your hobby and all its bits and pieces out of the way and neatly stored, reducing the potential for clutter elsewhere in the home.

Hidden in Plain Sight

We mentioned cube furniture above, and it’s a great way to also clear clutter in any room of your house. Cube storage units combined with decorative baskets can help keep everyday items organised while adding a touch of style to your space.

Thus, you can have your clutter hidden in plain sight, the namesake of this trend.

Cube storage units also make great bookshelves, so you can even pretty up your unit with decor on one shelf, books on another, and cube baskets in between. Another game-changer in home decluttering is furniture that serves more than a single purpose.

Multipurpose Furniture

Multi-purpose furniture has been on the rise for a few years now, and it remains a trend that carries on strongly into 2025. The concept is simple and goes further than simply decluttering the home - it can free up large amounts of space and leave your place feeling spacious and clean all the time.

The idea is to opt for furniture that serves more than one purpose in the home. For example, instead of opting for a dedicated piece of furniture such as the Rupert bedside table, opt, instead, for something like the Georgia side table.

This particular side table serves as a fine bedside table, but if you’re ever in need of more surface space in the living room (when hosting guests, for example), simply move it there. It looks at home both in the living room and in the bedroom.

The Leia makeup table is another great example of a multi-purpose piece. It can easily be repurposed as a desk or even a table for your hobby hole, offering both a ton of storage space and a surface on which to work.

This trend won’t be going anywhere soon, and for good reason - it’s a real space saver.

Do Away with the Coffee Pot

Many of us would be lost without our coffee in the morning, and we certainly wouldn’t want to get rid of our coffee pots entirely. The point of this trend is to create a hidden coffee station. This could be as simple as a divider in your invisible kitchen, or as complete as purpose-building a ventilated cabinet to house your coffee pot and accessories.

This helps to reduce clutter around the kitchen and lends itself very well to the invisible kitchen trend from above.

Smart Shoe Cabinets

A final trend we’ve seen on the rise, potentially because more people are making their homes “no-shoe zones,” is the smart shoe cabinet. Simply add a cabinet to the entryway of your home for shoes to be stored in.

As people enter the home, they can store their shoes safely in the cabinet, reducing tripping hazards and clutter at the same time. What’s more, fewer shoes in the house mean less dirt tracked in, so you’ll have less of a headache keeping the home clean as well.

Decluttering can Make a Huge Difference

Decluttering your home isn’t just about tidiness. It’s about creating a space that feels calm, organised, and enjoyable to live in. While it takes effort, the benefits are well worth it.

The key is to start small and build habits that prevent clutter from creeping back. Using smart storage solutions, embracing multi-purpose furniture, or trying out the packing party method can make maintaining an organised home much easier.

Decluttering isn’t about getting rid of everything. It’s about keeping what adds value to your life. By making intentional choices, you can create a home that feels both functional and refreshing, setting the tone for a more organised and stress-free daily routine.