With the closing of my business, we decided to switch up some rooms and renovate the suite as well. So, that meant packing up a lot of stuff and planning out the rooms. And that eventually lead to de-cluttering the entire house!! I have been wanting to do this for a very long time. And, literally, I have been going through every cupboard, closet and nook & cranny; I am finding all sorts of stuff that we just don't need, use or want anymore! At the moment, the entire suite is packed *FULL* of stuff for our garage sale we are holding this weekend, July 10th. I can't wait to see it all go! There will be baby/kids items, household items, retail displays, scrapbook items and much more!! I will post pictures soon so you can see the room full of stuff we have accumulated over the years! Incredible!
I found going from room to room and closet to closet worked best. Though sometimes I would be going through multiple rooms/closets at once, as sometimes I needed to make room elsewhere for the items I wanted to move then I would get distracted. lol! But we finally have our entire kitchen (mostly) organized, our upstairs closets (including our walk-in closet which we were totally not utilizing the space!) and even dresser drawers, and bathroom drawers & cabinets!! We even have a new dresser for the front entrance hallway, which DH picked up at the SOS; and all of the shoes, mittens, scarves, etc., are all neatly organized! :-) Ahhh!
I have missed being so organized before having kids!! lol! But I feel a huge sense of relief now! :-)
After our garage sale, we will be working on renovating the suite; then on to organizing my scrap room and playroom. But, it's so nice, as we have already gone through and packed up the supplies I am keeping and all of the playroom toys. So all I need to do is start unpacking. I can't wait to play again!!!
Hopefully I will be able to share "after" photos soon! But here are some "before" photos (sorry, the pictures aren't pretty!).
This is our hallway & entranceway. There are lots of things I'd like to change here, but it's just getting a minor facelift for now. The Ikea unit shown in the hallway is a wonderful piece of furniture! Each family member had a basket for their winter/summer items, it was perfect. However, we need it for storage in the playroom and DH picked up a dresser from the SOS to replace it, as we are on a limited budget.


Below is the Playroom (no, the kids don't ride the horsey on the table! lol!). It is usually a complete disaster zone, which really bugged me. I would shut the door and pretend the mess isn't there, but it's a glass door. lol! I will now be sharing the space with my kids and cannot work in a disaster zone! So, some toys have been boxed up for "rotation" so they will be "new" once again at another time, others have been moved upstairs to her room (not sure if that's such a good idea!), and yet others have been boxed up to sell/give away. You can see some of the boxes piled behind the door that we are keeping (a few of those are her craft stuff).
My plan is to make my creative daughter an art centre, and have her toys put away but easily accessible with the two smaller Ikea Expedit units that we have. We would like it to also be safe for my younger son to play down here, too.
[I will be re-claiming the large Ikea Expedit unit for my scrapbook supply storage.] :-)
And below is my side of the den DH & I shared; some of my scrapbooking supplies have since been packed up and moved to the playroom in preparation for the suite mini-renovation. I still need to move out the stuff in the closet. Eekk!
And, finally, this is a "before" photo of our master bedroom closet (Shhhh! Don't tell DH I am posting this!!) Yes, we have a bookshelf in our closet! We needed more shelves and it was the best option! ;-) Need more on the other side, but the hanging shelf thingy works pretty good, too, for now. And we literally had bags and bags full of gift bags!! We are selling almost the entire "collection", as there is no way we could possibly use all of those bags!
.Hope you enjoyed! :-) Do you have any before/after photos you'd like to share? Any organizing tips?