Cabinets: a wall of cabinets means increased storage for any number of items in multiple sizes but keeps everything looking neat and put away.Floating shelves: whether in a kitchen, laundry room, or home office this is a great design tool where you can store needed items and even adding decorative boxes can give you added storage with a clean look.Pair with a bench and you have an immediate mini drop zone. It keeps items off the floor and within easy reach for the quick in and out traffic flow. Hooks: this is a simple way to utilize the way near the entry, perfect for hats, coats, and even backpacks.Built-ins: This is the perfect way to maximize your wall, especially ones that are in unique areas in the home like the stairwell and living room.Think of it as a clean slate that you can fill with whatever you need to store the essentials, especially the items you use everyday. Walls are the one thing every house has in common and they can have the greatest potential to provide effective storage solutions to your home. Let’s talk about some creative storage solutions for small spaces. Small is not bad, in fact it comes with multiple benefits, and a good design can help you maximize what space you do have to build a home that is exactly right for you. While it may present more challenges than a larger home, it is possible to have the necessary storage for you to keep everything you need on hand.
has given me since we started dating =) Yes, that sparks joy in me, forever.What to do when you don’t have the luxury of square footage? How can you create storage when there is not a lot of room to begin with? Can you make small spaces work for you? These are good questions that we have helped our clients answer numerous times. Though I still have a special box for all the cards the Mr. And now, I'm more than ready to rid of the birthday cards I've collected over the years. When we moved from our old house, I've purged all Christmas cards from previous years. I'm a sentimental person, and naturally a hoarder of birthday cards and any occasional cards. Does a bowl with ratten balls on my coffee table spark joy? I think I'm over that phase.Īnd onto momentos. So, I'll be purging some home decor items that don't "spark joy" this week. That is why I want to cherish properly the things I love. I can totally relate to Marie Kondo here: "Human beings can only truly cherish a limited number of things at one time As I am both lazy and forgetful, I can't take proper care of too many things. If I only display things that I love, I would opt to take better care of them with proper cleaning. Having some blank space lets the eyes rest easily on single objects and devour their beauty. They've shown me that I don't need a lot to make a space look comfortably lived in and welcoming. More and more, I find myself loving the clean home decor look of the instagrammers I follow. The essence of a capsule wardrobe indeed goes hand in hand with the KonMari method - keep and wear what you love, or "spark joy". I first learned about the capsule wardrobe after we moved into our rental last year, and have subsequently purged bags after bags of clothes. Little did I know, I was actually already following the Konmari method's order of decluttering - starting from your least emotionally attached items: clothing, books, papers/ documents, miscellany, and lastly, momentos. Afterall, "tidying is not the purpose of life." Purge the unwanted, then store the remaining in its own place, to minimize rebounding back to clutter.
We're at the best time to start with a clean slate as we unpack the boxes! This is the easiest way to declutter all in one go, as Marie Kondo stresses.
It's definitely an eye-opener and timing just couldn't be better! We're in a smaller house now, and it's ridiculous to still have so much after rounds of purging. That by knowing what you love, you become more grateful to your possessions, gain the ability to be a more decisive person (through the decluttering process), and make positive changes in life. It has a spiritual undertone to it, and in essence, it's more about a lifestyle change. This isn't a book about cleaning, but more of decluttering by ridding of things that don't "spark joy" in us. It sounded magical for sure, so I delved into it further and read the e-book in one go.
Then, as I was browsing for organizing methods, I learned about Marie Kondo, a celebrity organizer in Japan and author of The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up. As a result, I'm always looking for more storage space. It's true that we don't have much furniture, as one of the movers said, but we have a lot of STUFF. Unpacking may be an endless task, and I'm embarrassed to admit that, for a family of 3, we just have so much stuff! I didn't realize we were such hoarders - it took our 4 movers 7 hours to move out of the rental and into our new house.
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