Fascinated by the wood burning stove
I was surprised how easy it was to have a wood burning stove fitted. The hardest part was making the decision about which stove to buy, oh and convincing my husband to have a stove instead of an open …
Declutterday: low energy decluttering
This week has been about keeping moving. I’m not sure why things have felt so difficult, but it has been a struggle to get the basics completed; maybe it is because I haven’t been having …
Declutterday: keeping momentum
Decluttering doesn’t stop until you’ve done the whole house AND stopped bringing unwanted items into the house; otherwise the clutter spreads and returns into the areas you’ve …
Declutterday: Success – room 1 decluttered
During the last five weeks I’ve used a little and often approach to sort through the contents of this room; I’ve removed lots of items and put away the rest. The focus …
But which are the weeds?
The wonderful thing about planting seeds is it leads to things growing. Having planted flower seeds in June we’ve got lots of flowers growing; however we’ve also got things growing in …
Declutterday: passing on clothes
With children in the house we have clothes that are either too small or too large and these have been stored in one pile in our big bedroom; until this week. I’ve sorted through the pile of …
First architect plans; ideas, solutions and questions
We’ve got the first plans from our architect to comment on. None of the layouts are right, but there are lots of ideas that have made us think about how we want to use the house now and how we …
Declutterday: reducing paper clutter
In our digital age, papers still manage to build up and in the past week I’ve made a start at reducing our paper clutter. I’ve marked the post we’ve received for the previous owners …
Declutterday: why did we pay to move that?
Removing five items from the house every week sounds easy until you have a busy week and you’re mind is on other things. I have found and thrown away the items from the same room as last …
Declutterday using SPACE
“Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.” William Morris One of the luxuries of having moved to a bigger house is it appears we have fewer …
Using a process to help me clean the house
Have you seen this worksheet for cleaning your house by Life on Paper? It really appeals to be me because it is both a process and a checklist; plus this should make the cleaning quicker because the …
Introducing our garden
We had a busy outdoor weekend, which is good because people keep telling me this nice weather is our summer!. Our new garden I’ve shared pictures of some of the interesting features in our new …
Kitchen dining room or lounge dining room?
We’re stuck on the remodelling of our new house. We’ve agreed we don’t want a separate dining room, but can’t decide what to do with the space; make a kitchen dining …
Renovating our new house; where to start, how to organise it?
Eleven months after putting our house on the market we’ve moved in to our “family” house. We initially accepted an offer after 10 days and had already found a house we like so …
Removing the ‘sluttery’ in our home
We are in the process of selling our house and have done several thing to improve the appearance for buyers such as reducing our belongings. One of the major activities was painting the hall way, it …
How to organise bookshelves
I think organising bookshelves can be either very exciting or very dull depending on your mind set going in to the task. I like to think of it as an adventure to rediscover the treasure that exists on …
How Clean is your House? by Kim Woodburn and Aggie MacKenzie – book review
I’ve never really understood how to clean, having never done it as a child so I’d try and do everything in one go and then get fed up. When I first read this book I was shocked at the …