Quick Hacks That Will Make Your House Into An Efficient, Well-Run Space

When our homes were built, the architecture and interior design may not have been made for exactly how you are living in the home, and adjustments need to be made from time to time to keep the home operating in a smooth and efficient manner. This does not require remodeling or any significant purchases or rearrangements, though.

Rather, there are many simple adjustments you can apply to your house that you can do on your own in hardly any time at all, with minimal financial investment as well. Read on for four household hacks that will improve the design of your home to make it more functional for its inhabitants.

Put Pool Noodles On The Walls Of Your Garage

How many dings and dents do you have on the doors of your car from opening them right into the wall of your cramped garage? For many people, the answer is “too many,” and even if you have never had any, it is best to take preventative measures so you don’t join the dinged door club, especially if you, like many people, have a garage that is too small for ordinary vehicles to actually open their doors.

Is the solution here to build a bigger garage? Throw out a bunch of your stuff so you can make a few extra feet of space? They say desperate times call for desperate measures, but here a very simple measure will do. Just put pool noodles on your walls, creating a cushy barrier that will blunt the blow if you are to hit the wall. You can also hang it from the ceiling to keep the front of your car from hitting the curb, if not the front wall.

Switch Your Fans To Blow The Other Way In The Winter

Summers are all about staying cool, and winters are all about staying warm. It’s too bad, then, that our ceiling fans, those essential tools for keeping us from overheating in the summer (unless you want to run the air conditioning all day…) are pretty useless to us in the winter. Or are they? What if there were a way to get our fans to blow hot air in the winter, just as they blow cool air in the summer?

It turns out that there is a way. Remember learning in high school science classes that hot air rises up, and that fans blow cool air back down to us? Well, in the winter they have the ability of pulling cool air from down and blowing it up. To do this, you just need to flick the switch on the fan that causes it to spin in the other direction. Don’t understand how this works? Don’t worry about it, just enjoy the results, but keep the fan on low in the winters for it to work properly.

Attach A Magnet To Your Hammer

The expression goes that to a hammer, everything looks like a nail. It’s a nice expression, but it in no way implies that you can use anything as a nail. In fact, when it comes to using hammers, there are no real substitutes for nails. It is quite a drag, then, that when you want to actually use your hammer, which is maybe a once a year occasion, nails are somehow nowhere to be found.

That’s why you should keep the hammer and nails together with no chance of them falling or getting separated. A great way to do this is attaching a strong magnet to the bottom of the hammer, and then placing some nails on it before you store it away. That way when you come to find the hammer a year or so later, the nails will be right there, just waiting to be used.

Use Desk Organizers In Your Pantry

Desk organizers are one of those items that seems to multiply no matter how little you use them. You have one, and then another gets bought when doing back-to-school shopping, and then a clueless relative gets you one as a gift because they don’t know what else to get you, and you get one for free by buying a box of pens, and then you’re given one at school, and before you know it you have a dozen or so of them and yet you are no closer to being organized at all.

Thankfully, there are actually good uses for these beyond your desk. In fact, having them in your pantry is even better! They are great for storing spice containers and other small jars. It would be ideal to be able to hang them on the side of the pantry, but if not, they are still a good organizational tool for your pantry, especially when it comes to grouping like items together.