Storing Your Holiday Décor for Next Year

Store Christmas Decorations in Custom Closets in Your Alpharetta Home!

Now that the holidays are over, storing your holiday décor may be on top of your to-do list. How do you keep fragile items from being smashed, damaged, or tangled as you put them away until the next holiday season? Quality Closet Connection, a top-notch custom closets’ builder in Alpharetta GA, shares some worthwhile ideas for organizing and storing Christmas decorations so you can keep using them for years to come.

Ornaments

Needless to say, putting all those Christmas decorations back in storage can be a challenge. It’s so easy to break something and mess things up. Plus, you need to figure out how to arrange them without wasting valuable space.

Thankfully, you don’t have to worry about it anymore. Here are some ideas that can help you organize and store your Christmas ornaments without damaging them.

• Get into upcycling! You might not have noticed, but egg cartons and to-go coffee cup holders make the perfect storage solutions for your holiday baubles and cost you nothing.
• Ordinary household items make great storage solutions too. You can put ornaments in individual paper cups inside a large plastic bin for safekeeping and add bubble wrap or tissue paper for extra protection.
• Seal them in. You can vacuum seal delicate ornaments inside a clear plastic bag and put them in a cardboard box or plastic bin. Don’t forget to put bubble wrap between individual layers to prevent breakage.

Wreaths

Unless you have a storage bag, storing wreaths without deforming them can be a difficult task. However, there’s a simple trick to keep them in shape. Hang them inside the closet or garment rack using a hanger. For added protection, keep them in a dry cleaning bag to keep them dust-free throughout the year.

String Lights

If you think storing holiday baubles gives you a headache, wait until it’s time to pack up the string lights! How do you do it without getting the cords tangled or breaking the bulbs? If you don’t want to buy storage reels, wrap them around a piece of cardboard, a paper towel tube, or a coat hanger and stack them in a sturdy plastic bin. You can also use empty coffee cans to do the trick. Simply push the plug through a slit in the plastic lid and wrap the lights around the can.

Tree

Instead of taking your artificial tree apart and putting the pieces back into the box, why don’t you shrink-wrap it instead? This will keep it dust-free and ready to use until the next holiday season. As a bonus, you don’t even have to worry about taking off the lights before storing the tree and stringing them back on next year. Just slice the shrink wrap open and you have your tree ready for the season!

Miscellaneous Items 

• Use vacuum-sealable plastic bags to store fabric decorations.
• Keep strings of beads in single-use water bottles to keep them from getting tangled. One bottle can hold at least two strings of beads.
• When storing taper candles, wrap them in tissue paper and slid them inside a paper towel tube. Keep them from melting by storing them in a cool, dry place.
• If you don’t have a bag dispenser for storing gift-wrapping supplies, an old garment bag can come in handy.
• Use zip bags when storing water globes to prevent making a huge mess in case of breakage.

Additional Tips:

• Make sure boxes are not too heavy and store light breakables towards the top of the box.
• Always label your boxes so you’ll know what’s inside the box without opening it.
• If you absolutely adore your string lights, you can choose not to store them. Instead, you can hang them on the deck railing, along the fence, under the roof of a covered patio or deck, on a tree, or under a pergola and enjoy them all year round.

Quality Closet Connection: The Perfect Storage Solution for Holiday Decorations

Storing holiday decorations and finding the right storage solutions for all your stuff shouldn’t be a problem. You can have a more organized and clutter-free lifestyle by investing in custom closets for your Alpharetta home. Offering solutions for pantries, closets, and garages, we can provide you with shelving and storage solutions to those carefully packaged holiday decorations safe for years to come.

At Quality Closet Connection, we can provide the perfect solution for your storage and organizational needs. Contact us today, call us at 770-710-6008, or send us an email at walter@qualityclosetconnection.com so we can start designing and installing the ideal storage solution to suit your needs.