Tips for Packing and Moving a Bedroom

Moving a Bedroom is challenging, and should be appropriately managed as such. The bedroom is one of the most personal spaces in your home.

Considering this, you may want to take some extra care when preparing and carrying out a move of your bedroom items.

Here are some highlights to Moving a Bedroom:

Jewelry and Valuables

Often the smallest & most important items in your bedroom, jewelry can be a point of stress during the move.

It can be very easy to lose these small items while Moving a Bedroom. Usually, they are found lying loose along the tops of dressers, night tables, and inside drawers.

You will definitely want to take care when clearing your space for further packing and moving in the room.

Locate all loose jewelry and valuable items and pack them somewhere safe during the moving process.

We suggest you pack away your jewelry and valuables ahead of the move, or to keep on your person during the move.

This will save you the headache of trying to find any possible missing or broken keepsakes after the fact.

Clothing and Bedding

Once the jewelry is secured, you can move on to the much easier process of packing your clothing and bed linens.

Whether you are doing the move yourself, or hired a professional moving company, boxes for bedroom fabrics are easy to come by.

Wardrobe boxes are taller boxes which have a central metal beam inside the box. That beam is used for hanging your clothing directly from closet to closet without the pesky need of removing hangers. Wardrobe boxes make it unnecessary to fold and wrinkle clothes for transportation.

For other clothing and bedding, it’s best to pack these items away drawer by drawer for easy unpacking in your new home.

Pro Tip: use the bottom of the wardrobe box for loose items like shoes, hats, bags and other miscellaneous closet items!

Be very careful not to pack any liquids, such as perfume or lotions with your clothing as even the smallest leak could ruin certain fabrics.

Television and Appliances

Depending on the television set up in your room, you will have to approach the preparation accordingly.

If your TV is mounted on the wall, it will have to be brought down and packed separately from the mount.

It’s not as difficult as it seems, but if you’re uncomfortable doing it yourself, ask for help from a professional.

Most moving companies will gladly take the television off its wall bracket to be packed. However, most companies will not install the television back onto the wall once you are in your new home. You may have to plan to have the TV remounted.

Check out Amazon Home Services for a super easy and cheap way to remount the TV.

When packing a flat panel TV, it’s integral that the corners and side of the screen are properly cushioned in its box. Most cracks and damage to the screen starts with the corners and sides of newer flat panel televisions.

If you still have the box your TV came in, with its protective cushioning, it is highly recommended you use the same box to move the TV in.

However, all is not lost if you don’t have the original box. A professional mover can easily repack even the biggest modern TV’s using custom made television cartons and packaging.

Other items such as cable boxes and modems may have to be returned to your local cable provider. Be careful not to pack these items away, especially if you’re moving out of town.

Other smaller appliances, such as alarm clocks and bedside lamps, can be packed into more common boxes. Although they still require safe packing to ensure maximum protection during the move.

Take care that everything has been properly unplugged and disassembled (if needed) before grabbing items to box.

Pro Tip: Lamps should never travel with their shade and bulb still attached. Pack them separately, with shades in one box and the bases in another.

Bubble wrap, newspaper, air pocket cushions, Styrofoam. These are your best friends when packing a box with glass, breakable or expensive items.

If you think you need more packing paper around your Grandmother’s favorite lamp, then you need more packing paper.

When it comes to packing, be liberal with your cushioning.

Furniture

Most bedrooms have a familiar set up. You have the bed, one or two night tables, a dresser and possibly an armoire or vanity.

Once you’ve packed the bedding, you’re left with a bare mattress and box spring. As you can imagine, it’s very easy for these pieces to get dirty, soiled or even possibly ruined during the moving process.

It’s very important to for the safe transit of these pieces that you cover them with protective covering. Many stores sell large plastic bags which you can slip up and over your beds. This will help ward against moisture as well as possible soiling or staining of the mattress and box spring.

Professional movers are known to double protect the mattress and box spring. Using plastic wrap and fresh paper padding, it is protected against possible damage along the way.

Once you’ve packed and emptied your drawers, all that’s left is the wrapping of furniture for safe travel.

If using a professional moving company for your move, this will be done by them during the facilitation of the move.

If you are going to pull off a “Do-It-Yourself” move, moving pads are available from some resources such as Home Depot or U-Haul.

Keep in mind, depending on how much furniture you have to move, this can be a rather costly expense not readily in mind from the start. As always, when possible it’s best to leave things to the professionals.

Other Points of Concern

During the move, be sure to check your bedrooms. Make sure there aren’t any items which haven’t been properly packed and prepped for moving.

It’s very easy to forget what’s under the bed, or what may have fallen behind a piece of furniture over time.

Bedrooms should be thoroughly checked before you or the mover leave to head to destination so that nothing is left behind.

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