How to Organize Multiple Remotes Without Cluttering Your Living Room
Because your coffee table shouldn't look like the control room at NASA.
Remember when televisions had one remote?
Now you've got one for the TV, another for the streaming device, one for the soundbar, another for the ceiling fan, and maybe even one for the mini-split air conditioner.
Before you know it, your coffee table looks like a remote control convention.
And somehow, with all those remotes sitting around, you still can't find the one you need.
The good news? You don't have to choose between a comfortable, good-looking living room and keeping all your remotes within reach.
Here are six practical ways to organize multiple remotes without turning your living room into an electronics storage facility.
1. Give Every Remote One Designated Home
The first rule of organizing multiple remotes is simple:
Stop giving every remote a different place to live.
If your TV remote stays on the couch, your streaming remote lives on the coffee table, and your ceiling fan remote somehow ended up in the kitchen, you're making things harder than they need to be.
Choose one convenient location for your frequently used remotes.
It should be somewhere you can easily reach from your usual seat without having to get up.
The goal is to make putting remotes away just as convenient as leaving them out.
2. Use a Remote Control Organizer That Fits Your Space
Not every living room has room for another basket, tray, or storage container.
Fortunately, remote control organizers come in several styles.
Tabletop organizers work well if you have a large coffee table or end table with extra space.
Couch armrest organizers keep remotes close without using table space, although they may not fit every style of furniture.
Wall-mounted holders can work in smaller rooms, especially when there's a convenient wall near your seating area.
Storage pillows combine remote organization with something you probably already have on your couch.
The best choice depends on your furniture, the number of remotes you use, and how you want your living room to look.
3. Keep Your Coffee Table From Becoming a Remote Parking Lot
A coffee table can quickly become the dumping ground for everything in the living room.
Remotes. Chargers. Mail. Snacks. Toys. More remotes.
Sound familiar?
One way to reduce clutter is to move remote storage off the coffee table entirely.
Consider keeping your remotes in a couch-side organizer, an end-table drawer, or a decorative storage solution.
If you prefer using a tray, choose one large enough to hold your everyday remotes without letting them spread across the table.
The idea isn't to hide everything you own.
It's to make the room feel organized without making everyday items difficult to access.
4. Group Remotes by Where You Use Them
Not every remote needs to live in the same room.
For example, the bedroom TV remote probably doesn't need to share a holder with the living room ceiling fan remote.
Group remotes according to where they're actually used.
In your living room, you might keep the TV, streaming, and ceiling fan remotes together.
In your bedroom, you might organize the TV, fan, and mini-split remotes.
This makes it easier to find the controller you need without sorting through a collection of remotes that belong somewhere else.
And if you're constantly carrying a remote from room to room, consider whether each space needs its own dedicated controller, where compatible.
5. Choose Storage That Looks Like It Belongs in Your Living Room
Here's something people don't always consider when shopping for remote control holders:
An organizer can solve one clutter problem while creating another.
A giant plastic holder might keep your remotes together, but it may not be something you want sitting in the middle of your carefully decorated living room.
Look for storage that complements your furniture and decor.
That could mean a wooden tray, a decorative basket, a fabric couch organizer, or a throw pillow with built-in storage.
The best home organization solutions are often the ones that don't look like organizers at all.
6. Keep Remotes From Wandering Off With a Tether System
Even after you've found the perfect remote organizer, there's still one problem.
Somebody has to remember to put the remotes back.
And if you've got kids—or a husband who somehow can't find a remote sitting directly in front of him—you already know how that goes.
That's where a tether system can help.
Instead of simply storing your remote in a designated place, a tether keeps it connected to that location.
This was the idea behind the Clicker Keeper™ Pillow.
We wanted something that could organize multiple remotes without adding another plastic organizer to the living room.
So we combined a comfortable 16" × 16" throw pillow with two front storage pockets and a built-in tether system.
The pillow has room for up to three remotes and comes with two coiled tethers. A third tether can be purchased separately.
Each tether uses an adhesive pad to attach to a compatible remote, allowing you to pick it up and use it while helping keep it from disappearing into the couch.
There's even a full-width zipper pocket on the back for other everyday essentials.
It's remote storage that looks like a regular throw pillow, with a little extra insurance against the mysterious disappearing remote.
Discover the Clicker Keeper™ Pillow at clickerkeeper.com.
The Bottom Line: Less Clutter, Fewer Missing Remotes
Organizing multiple remotes doesn't have to mean buying another bulky gadget or rearranging your entire living room.
Sometimes all it takes is choosing one convenient storage location and making it easy for everyone to use.
Whether you prefer a simple tray, a couch organizer, a decorative basket, or a remote control pillow with built-in tethers, the goal is the same:
Keep your remotes organized, your living room looking good, and your family out of the couch cushions.
Because you've got better things to do than spend your evening looking for the remote.
A remote in the hand is worth two in the couch.
— Clicker Keeper™