Just two weeks ago Jana Duggar shared a new video of her tiny house. It’s so cute! I love the way she has organized and decorated it. Watch below.

Watching this video really resonated with me because I just moved into a tiny house, something I never thought I would do after having seven children. It’s been a bit of struggle to settle in as this home doesn’t even have a coat or broom closet! The plus side however is that it has two kitchens! It’s been fun to create beauty and order out of the chaos of moving and dejunking.

I won’t go into the details as to why we moved into such small quarters. Anyway, here are are my tips for organizing and decorating a tiny house. Jana shows many of these tips in the video,

1. Dejunk. Get rid of a lot of stuff. Get some books or watch dejunking videos on YouTube if you need help with this. With the rest of your stuff you keep always store whenever possible at the point that is closest as possible to where you use the thing.
2. Use shelves. I especially like IKEA Kallax shelves and IKEA’s Billy Bookcase. You can often find these used in your local used furniture for sale Facebook groups and classified ads. Recently I found a 4×2 Kallax while thrifting for only $20. It looks like Jana has some Kallax shelves in her living room.
3. Get stand-alone cabinets if you need more storage space in the kitchen like Jana shows in the video. I found a really cute one for my kitchen for only $30. I didn’t like the paper on the back of it so I covered it with cute black and white rose contact paper from the Dollar Tree. Always measure first so you know if it will fit your space and your stuff.
4. Use bins or baskets to store random stuff on shelves that can’t look at all even slightly uniform like books can with their spines facing out. See the bins and baskets on Jana’s shelves above. IKEA has bins and baskets that fit all the Kallax shelves that I’m enjoying. I also like to scout out random baskets at my local thrift stores for my non-Kallax shelves. I have been blessed to find some that exactly fit the shelves I have. So I have two baskets on my kitchen cabinet to hold random food my two young single adult sons brought with them when they moved back in and three baskets on top of my bookshelves in my family room to hold DVDs. Those DVDs would look OK if stores like books but I ran out of shelf space. The Dollar Tree has lots of different sizes of plastic baskets if that doesn’t offend your naturally crunchy mom aesthetic sense.
5. Use cardboard boxes covered with pretty contact paper if you can’t find or can’t afford the right size of bins or baskets. When I was really poor in my days of all my 7 children living at home I covered boxes with recycled white copy paper and used black labels with white chalkboard marker to give my pantry a uniform look.
6. Get hooks. Magnetized hooks on the fridge and any other metallic surface are great for things like car keys. I like using the side of the fridge that faces a wall to hide unsightly things that can hang like the fly swatter and sink snake. Command hooks are great for pictures, wall hangings, and even heavy things like brooms and mops.
7. Get over-the-door-holders for the inside of cupboard doors to hold things like herbal tea bags, ziploc bags, food wrap, plastic lids, in the kitchen, and curling irons in the bathroom.
8. Get over the door laundry hampers to clear up bedroom floor space. I have these pretty ones from amazon and love them.
9. Get over the door hooks from Dollar Tree for to hang stuff like bras, night clothes, bags, and umbrellas.
10. Get shoe organizers that hang from a closet rod to clear up closet floor space.
11. Get custom organizers for things like garden tools. If you have something that takes up a lot of space, chances are there is an organizer to corral the mess.
12. Keep a box of stuff to donate. Anytime you go by the thrift store drop it off. Because even though you may have just dejunked, more junk is always coming in. It’s a constant battle.

Want more organizing tips from the Duggars? Watch Jessa’s video below.

Want to see what else Jana has been up to? See videos about renovating the Duggars’ playroom and putting in a swimming pool below. I just love how handy she is with tools and her vision of creating beauty and fun for herself and her family. Go Jana!