How can I clean my room and make my room ready for High School?

Question

I am 13 years old, 14 in August.

I recently painted my room, purple and green, 4 months ago. I have already bought new bedding, but I cannot get it until my birthday, and until my room is clean. When I painted my room, I got a new desk which is now a mess. I really want some ideas on how to make my desk more usable for high school, by the way I plan on doing my homework in there. I am saving for a laptop, so that will go on my desk but I don't know what else I need to study, etc. Are there any inexpensive things I need to help me study at home?

The other part of the question is cleaning my room where do I start? What do I need to organize clutter what about my closet? It's a mess!!

Here some pictures of my room and please no rude comments about things that I have or what not.

Under my bed {Lots of room for storage!}

http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j210/hermionechic200567/Lara006.jpg

My Desk {a mess..}

http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j210/hermionechic200567/Lara006.jpg

Full Room View:

http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j210/hermionechic200567/Lara004.jpg

&

http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j210/hermionechic200567/Lara005.jpg

Chest:

http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j210/hermionechic200567/Lara003-2.jpg

Closet:http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j210/hermionechic200567/Lara007.jpg

Answer 1

There are a few tips that may help you out for study in highschool.  When you start highschool, you will probably have a little more homework just because of the class type, and a larger stress on "free thinking" and research projects.  Although you may be wanting to use your desk for study and homework, statistically if you do your homework outside of your living space, say at the kitchen table, or on the patio (nice days), or really any place that's relativly quiet, with less distraction.  (I used to do homework at my dad's work bench in the garage.)  As far as organization, it looks like you have a lot of nail polish and that sort of thing.  Think about where you actually use those.  If you use that sort of thing in your room, you might want to think about having it in storage, even if it's still easy access storage.  Where you've lofted your bed, you can use things like rubbermade drawers under your bed.  Drawers or shelves are good because you can sort things by type.  A drawer or shelf for nail polish and that sort of thing, a drawer for school supplies (if you're dead set on using the desk for homework), a drawer for computer stuff if you're going to have one in your room, a drawer for magazines, etc.  It looks like you have some of those drawers in the closet, and it would free up some space for hanging cloths if you move those under your bed.  One thing I always find myself doing when I clean house, is find out that there's a lot of things I either don't need anymore, or, in the case of my closets, things I never use anymore that is just taking up space.  You do have an oddly shaped accent rug, wich is fine and all, but if you're thinking about a rolling office style chair for working at your desk, you may run into problems with it rolling over the edge of the rug, either stopping the chair, or tearing up the edge of the rug.  When re-organizing, just keep in mind to have the new layout make sense to you because if it's not "user friendly", you won't use it.  One more tip for paperwork that you'll find increases exponentially in highschool, and college, is get in the habit of fileing things.  A hanging file box can save you a lot of time when you're looking for that copy of a reference letter for a job application, or your reference list for college scholarship and summer camp applications.  Good luck with you're cleaning/re-organization.  

Answer 2

It looks like you have a lot of great things in your room.  We have the exact same desk! :)

One thing I'd recommend getting to organize your desk is one of these:

http://www.organize.com/medest.html  - you can get them at Walmart or Target and I'm pretty sure they won't cost as much as that one.  It's great for holding pencils, pens, highlighters, index cards... all sorts of things for productive studying.

Try to divide your room into what you'll be doing in each area.  To help with studying clear your desk of everything that isn't related to school.  Maybe keep your make up on your chest and your collectables on the shelves.

A big thing that will help is to organize your clothes.  Use your totes to store out of season things.  Fold up or hang everything neatly so you can see what you have.  That will give you a lot of space in your closet for storage that's not really available right now.  It looks like you have a lot of boxes and bins to keep your odds and ends in.

It's always good for you to go through your belongings and get rid of things that you don't need or use anymore.  It's so much easier to keep things tidy when you don't have a lot of "stuff" hanging around.

It doesn't look like it will take you long to make yourself a great space!  Just throw yourself into it and it will be done before you know it!

Answer 3

You could get some shelving that you remove later for your closet like the stuff I use for my office - wire shelving- doesn't leave much mess and its easy to take down later

here is one website I can think of as an example or rubbermaid has one too

Answer 4

-You can clean your room and make your room ready for high school by getting rid of all the things you know you won't need and buying things you need but don't have yet; that way, you're cleaning your room by getting rid of some junk you don't need anymore and, at the same time, buying new things for high school.  

-There are inexpensive things you need to help you study at home:  your basic school supplies, everything from pencils to index cards.  

-You can start cleaning your room where it's the messiest; it's best to get the hard things out of the way first.  And for your closet, read this article:  http://www.wikihow.com/Organize-Your-Clo...

     Good luck and I hoped I helped!

Answer 5

well you can but some stuff and posters and then you can clean some stuff out of your room and throw some stuff away like i  did of you can buy and big huge box to put your stuff they sell then any were that have decors

Answer 6

Ah, no offence or anything but you don't need to 'get a room ready' for high school. You just need a clean desk...and thats it. Nothing special. It's just harder work than last year, thats it! You don't need to change a room for it!

Answer 7

Under the bed storage, and cool hanging shelves or bookcases.  The most important thing is to utilize your space.   Stack-a-shelf units are pretty cool, because you buy them separately and can make pretty much anything you want.  You can get them almost anywhere to, from target, walmart to even Lowes (I think)