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Rebecca Knight

5 things professional organisers always remove from people's bedrooms - and say you should too

A bedroom with a navy built-in wardrobe and a natural set of drawers.

Bedrooms are supposed to be a space to unwind and relax, but clutter can get in the way of sending the right signals to your brain to switch off at night. It's for this reason that there are certain items that professional organisers would never keep in a bedroom.

We spoke to three professional organisers find out what items they always remove when decluttering a bedroom for a client, and while there were five things that made the list do remember that these items all come with caveats. 'Sometimes bedrooms have to function as more than simply a place to sleep, so what to keep in the bedroom is dependent on that,' points out Victoria Fearnley, APDO Member and Founder of Surrey Decluttering. 'The key is to assign areas for each function and try to avoid it getting muddled.'

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