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Tuesday, January 15th, 2019
Cabinets, drawers, and shelves are your new best friends. Featured here is the Hooker Furniture Home Office Storia Low Bookcase 1609-10420-MWD.
Seeing and getting used to piles of bills, magazines and papers is a glaring sign that you no longer see these as clutter. But not being bothered by such sight could hold you back from being the person that you ought to be or living the life that you’ve originally envisioned.
Many professional organizers can attest that decluttering does not just provide visual changes but also many other great benefits. First off, seeing that your place is clean is tantamount to relieving stress. Eventually, being stress-free, you end up with improved relationships and better moods.
Don’t be overwhelmed by clutter anymore. Here are five reasons that clutter has been holding you back –
You No Longer Entertain
If your home had been the hub of entertainment for your family and friends and you’ve noticed that you’re no longer inviting them because of the mess or disorganized rooms, then, bingo, clutter has taken root in your home.
This is an obvious result that you’ve abandoned entertaining people because of the shoved clutter and boxes in the basement (these were placed there, to begin with, because you were hosting an event then and, eventually, you did not bother to clean them up anymore).
Free yourself from clutter and be social once again.
You Don’t Feel Comfy
Feeling that you’re ill at ease right in your own home is tragic. So instead of getting used to the stacks of bills and magazines or leaving piles of unfolded laundry in a corner, you’ve got to man up and face it.
Declutter and you’ll feel more at home.
You Feel Ill Most of the Time
That overflow of clothes in the hamper might already be home to mold (yup, go and check now). Or is it the nightstand that’s filled with so many unwanted items that you no longer feel relaxed in your bedroom.
Whatever the reason, dust could accumulate because of this pile of unwanted stuff so remove them especially when you or a family member has allergies. As you do so, you will notice that your health will improve because of reduced stress and relieved breathing.
Your Routine’s Been Disrupted
Do you already feel stressed just looking for a thing to wear when going to work? Many people admit to being overwhelmed by the idea of organizing their own closets and looking through the piles of their belongings. If this is already the case with you, then you might want to consider looking for closet organizers.
Closet organizers are professionals who have many methods of packing and organizing your stuff. There are also a lot of benefits that come with the hiring of these professionals.
First, if you cannot organize your own closet and the very thought of sorting through your stuff makes you woozy, then let these experts help you.
Second, if you think that you have hoarding tendencies or that you feel challenged by the very thought of organizing the closet, then allow the professional organizers to do the job for you. These are highly trained people – some even have psychology degrees – which can deal with such behaviors.
As you free-fall and allow them to help you, then the benefits are enhanced productivity and a feeling of tranquility.
The Clutter Had Become a Money Pit
Clutter could be a reason for food to go bad or for cosmetic items to go to waste, even medicines to become not useful. As you add up the money that was used to buy these things, then you’d realize the amount wasted.
Declutter and take charge of your life. Don’t allow the dry goods to be stored anywhere else but a cabinet.
Less clutter will mean that you’re ready to save some money.
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Saturday, January 5th, 2019
Rachael Ray Home by Legacy Classic Furniture Bedroom Panel Bed with Brass Finish Wood Accents and Storage Footboard, Queen 5/0 8100-4125K is a bed which doubles as a storage unit.
Have you noticed lately that you have more than one of everything? If you see a stack of magazines that haven’t been read for a while or a pile of papers that remain untouched for many months (and, yeah, they are kept together with old bills), then it’s time to admit that clutter is slowly taking over.
Visual appeal should not be the lone reason why you should begin your New Year with a decluttering project. More than this, decluttering could also relieve stress, make you feel more peaceful, while it can also improve your personal relationships.
It’s Time to Socialize
Yes, it’s the New Year so forget about your worries on your hosting embarrassments. Don’t wait for many more months before you begin welcoming and entertaining guests once more. And don’t even think of abandoning the idea of welcoming guests in your home because it’s never healthy.
If you’re also thinking that hosting a party is as easy as shoving all your clutter in the basement, then pretty soon, you’ll notice that the molehill has become Mount Everest.
It’s time to face the problem and begin rummaging through your stuff. As you free up space, you will soon notice that you’re starting to feel the confidence to let in some guests once more.
It’s Time to Relax
Clutter does have a tendency to hold you back. In fact, many people admit to feeling uneasy inside a messy home. They also feel that they are not able to relax when their eyes rest upon stacks of papers or baskets of dirty laundry. After all, who could recline and enjoy a book when there are hordes of work to be done?
If you really want to truly relax, then you should put your belongings right where they should be properly stored and those that you have not used for the longest time, well, you know the drill – it’s time to let go.
As you declutter, you will soon free up some space which will make your home more relaxing. You will also be able to lie down and say that you’ve done your job.
It’s Time to Put Wellness First
Just imagine having piles of clothes strewn all over the floor or having a hamper overflowing. Do you see yourself living like this for years and years?
Relive your anxiety by getting rid of these things. These unwanted things have the power to make you feel that you’re always on the edge. Some could even be so powerful that they can keep you up at night.
And the more nights that you’re kept awake by the thoughts of cleaning up or having a pile of unwanted stuff within the room, the less sleep that you’re going to get. And with fewer hours spent on resting and rejuvenating, the more that your health will surely suffer.
Let tonight be the last night that you’ll wake up to a cluttered home. Clean up the dust that have accumulated and store all your disorganized stuff. Don’t let the dust collect until family members begin suffering from asthma and other respiratory illnesses.
The benefits of a cleanup are improved breathing, reduced stress, and thus, improved sleep.
It’s Time to be Punctual
Having no sense of organization could lead to stressful times when you look for something and couldn’t find it. Clutter has the power to slow you down especially when you’re prepping for work.
This coming weekend put your work clothes on and start tackling this problem. Worry no more and begin cleaning up. There are many benefits to this weekend project so better gather your cleaning materials soon.
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Monday, May 9th, 2016
The American Leather Living Room Meyer-Sectional invokes clean living with its clean lines and simplicity.
Starting anew whether your family is moving or remodeling is a huge undertaking. Expect mess everywhere but once you’ve settled, you should make minimal to zero waste as your home’s new goal. Of course, an endeavor of such magnitude does sound too good to be true, indeed, it is an ambitious take on life. Through persistence, though, your entire home can have a low-consumption kind of living.
Here are some tips that can help you reduce waste in your home –
Bulk Buying
Carryout containers and packaged foods are a huge source of non-recyclable plastic garbage. Just think about those wrappers, chip bags, cartons, and trays – every little one of such packages are made or mixed with plastics which are disposed in landfills.
Cooking at home is a great solution as is eating fresh produce. Purchase vegetables and fruits, and buying other stuff in bulk will help you veer away from those small plastic containers and packages. Buying fresh helps you cut your salt, preservative and artificial dye consumption.
A lot of cosmetic brands also sell their products in bulk in many health stores. Seek such discounts to eliminate the use of plastic in your home. Simplify also the use of cleaning supplies so that you will have a significant reduction of plastic spray bottle garbage.
Be a Neat Freak
Okay, that’s going a tad overboard but reducing the amount of surface where garbage may accumulate could also minimize the amount of garbage and clutter in your home. To effectively implement this, make sure that you have cabinets and other storage units where you will place only the needful stuff.
Don’t collect things that you don’t need. Keeping stuff for sentimental reasons is modified hoarding. Take a picture of that thing which you hold dear then let go. You can also donate unused stuff on a regular basis. Have a giveaway box set up in the attic or basement. Collecting stuff that you don’t use everyday ends up as a pile of garbage inside drawers and closets.
If giving your stuff away is not your style, then find ways that you can sell some of your things. You can even make more money this way.
Shop for Need
Don’t shop. Period.
More often than not, people shop even when they don’t have a need to. If you will be fully honest with yourself, most of your purchases are unnecessary, right?
Shopping for leisure presents the danger of accumulating stuff that you don’t really need. So, yeah, there’s no need to buy that cute outfit just because it matches your Prada bag. Have your house thank you for owning less stuff.
Look for furniture that can maximize the use of space in your home. This Hooker Furniture Living Room Lift Top Floral Cocktail Trunk doubles as decorative furniture at the foot of your bed while storing some of your stuff.
Clean Up
Hold a general cleaning activity on weekends. Make it a fun activity where family members chat and laugh during the cleanup. Have some lemonade and brownies to pep everyone up.
Let go also of the just in case attitude where you keep things, well, just in case you’d need them. If you truly assess all the stuff that you are currently keeping, you would be surprised how many have just been stored for many years.
If you are unsure about giving away or selling some of your stuff, then place them inside a plastic container. Should months pass and that plastic still remains intact, then you’d know by then that it’s time to let go.
Another way of cleaning up your home is to acquire a new perspective in life. Try visiting a homeless shelter and spend some time with someone who has been deprived of the blessings that you take for granted. Doing this will make you realize that having less is actually more; you will then be ready to let go of things that don’t really matter.
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Sunday, April 17th, 2016
Flexsteel Bedroom Vanity With Mirror W1901-869 (close-up of drawers)
No one would consider attic cleaning to be a delightful task. Just think about the dander, dust and mold that you would encounter up there and you would surely begin to feel irritated over the idea of remodelling this part of your home into something else. Okay, it is necessary to do the cleanup in order to go about with your attic ideas. Stop having this problem area in your home, instead, have it turned to a living area.
Let’s Clean Up
Since it is necessary to clean the attic first before you begin your project, then see how these simple steps can help you –
The Attic Remodelling Project
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There is so much to plan for when remodelling a storage area like the attic. Lighting, materials, space use, and other design elements should be seriously thought through before the cleanup even begins.
Your palette as a creative master for this project begins with the color scheme. You can have a neutral base and dashes of accent colors such as warmer yellows on your walls.
See if you can make the door become the focal point for your remodelling project. Make sure that you choose a vibrant color in order to do this. Bright red is known to be the most welcoming kind of color for any door. Blue is also a great choice.
When the color or colors have been chosen and set, you can begin adding furnishings for your newly remodelled attic. But what purpose does it now serve? Is it the new master bath? Or is it the new family room? It is also conducive to learning as it is high above the ground – see if you can set it up as a home library or an office.
If you want to bring in more light, say, you are planning to turn the attic into a living room, then you could add ample LED lighting. It can be concealed inside the grooves on the attic beams. This should create an interesting layer of atmosphere.
Should the rooflines create difficulty in storing stuff, then try creating niches in the attic walls. These can be effectively used as bookshelves.
The attic can also be turned into an additional bedroom or a guest room. Along with your investment of a comfortable bed, you can have floating shelves and the most interesting cabinetry in one of the new bedroom’s corners.
Do you know what the most interesting room is that you can create out of your attic? A bathroom.
Be sure to make plans for the installation of the new drains as attic floors do not have provisions for plumbing. The bathroom project can be a tad trickier to create when compared to all other rooms. Have a professional plumber do the job of installing the new shower, tub and drains. You can only do so much.
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Wednesday, March 16th, 2016
The best decluttering solution is to have ample storage space for your stuff. This Belvedere piece from Fine Furniture Design is a thing of beauty and function.
Every homeowner knows that there are accessories that can complete a home and there is also clutter. There are pieces that can attract just the wrong kind of attention. These are your visual clutters which can detract instead of add to a home’s magnificence.
You might not have known it but there are accessories in your home that you actually can do without –
Multiple Framed Photos
Have you ever given the walls of your home a second look lately? More often than not, there are mismatched frames that are hung on many walls or are seated on tables. These are those little, cheaply-made photo frames that are so distracting.
Of course, no one’s saying that your family pictures are not important. For most reasons, you are framing them because of sentimental reasons. But instead of cramming all of your family’s vacation photographs, choose the ones that are most memorable, put them in frames that are a lot nicer then display them with a purpose this time.
Create a gallery on one wall or follow what’s already been done in many stylish homes – lining up your staircase with them. It would also be nice to see a console table that is topped with just two or three tastefully chosen framed photographs.
You might ask what you could do with the rest of the frames…well, put them in a donation box (it’s all for a good cause).
Accessories Uttermost Spirula Photo Frames S/2 18566 : If you have to display photos, then do it in a classy way.
Used-to-be-Stylish-Curtains
Did you know that not all rooms need curtains and drapes? There are also so many reasons why you can do without them.
First, it would be tragic to cover beautiful windows of any home. Original woodwork, French windows, and other such beauties would be wrong to cover with thick curtains. Also, if you live in an area right by the woods, then there are definitely rooms in your home that offer a good view of the greenery outside. See those rooms that do not require privacy so you can say goodbye to unnecessary curtains.
Another thing is, have you checked the colors of your curtains recently? Have they been faded by the sun? Are the prints already old fashioned? Or could it be because the curtains are too short for your tall windows?
If any of these rings true, then you might want to experiment with a zero curtain look for awhile. Who knows, you might even enjoy the view more than those times when the windows were all covered up. Should you ever decide to cover the windows up again, try some shutters or bamboo shades for a change.
Plastic Flower Arrangements
There can never be a thing in the world that could replace the beauty of fresh flowers in tasteful vases. Those huge, artificial flowers in your home simply don’t belong there. Plus, there’s that downside of those fake flowers gathering dust in the long run so they can make a place look ugly.
Decluttering is not just applicable to fake flowers but to fake trees as well. Find, instead, those easy-to-grow indoor plants, place a bowl of colorful fruits on the table, or just display a vase of freshly-bought or picked flowers.
Faux flowers just won’t make your home look classy.
Apart from those fake stuff, you can also declutter by removing those stored, cheap glass vases inside your cupboard. Don’t hold on to them. Having three to four elegant vases would be better than keeping ten ugly vases.
‘Nough said.
Those Useless Knickknacks
Sure, accessories can add beauty and personality to your home but having a lot of knickknacks is not interior decorating – it’s hoarding. If you happen to have large collections of which you simply cannot bear to part with, then at least decide to rotate the pieces every now and then.
There is no rule that says you have to display all of your collections at once.
Again, don’t hold on to clutter. There are so many things that you can get rid of now which you think you might need but actually do not so go ahead and make that resolution now.
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