I haven't kept it a secret that I want to own a home with lots of land. The reality is that I leave in a metropolitan area and land is hard to come by. So one thing I have come to learn and start of love is the idea of tiny living. Tiny houses are a huge movement out in the west coast and it is becoming even more throughout the entire country. It is where the home you live in is between 30-500 square feet, with a "small" house being 500-1200 sq feet.
Our current apartment is 1200 sq feet, give or take a little bit and it constantly feels like we stuffed it to the brim. It is a 2 bedroom 1 bathroom apartment with huge storage closets. The problem is they aren't really useful. I have closets, yes, but 2 of them have no shelves what so ever. So they seem to be a toss it in closet and hope the clutter goes away zones. This past week I decided enough was enough. Both myself and my husband come home and we feel like we can't relax. Which is not what you want from the place you call home. We both knew we had too much stuff again (even though it seems like we had just de-cluttered everything) and it was time to go at it again.
In one weekend we were able to get rid of so much stuff. We haven't finished but I will update you on the progress at least.
Our bedroom is organized and completely cluttered free. I am not saying it is a minimalists dream because we have items we like on surfaces and there are a few things in our drawers but what we accomplished was amazing. We cut our clothes I swear almost in half. We had just done this probably a year ago but we really gave up on the things we never wore or were worn past their love point. The closet has nothing but clothes and shoes in it. It is lovely. The nightstands are almost completely empty. We have just a few things we like before bed, such as our nightly reading, journals, a few pens and remotes in them. I love notebooks and found my bottom drawer of my nightstand we empty so I am storing them there until I figure out a better place for them. Under our bed is completely empty. Just the air pump for our Sleep Number is under there. The dresser is completely reorganized and folded. I emptied an entire drawer from my half of the dresser and now my jeans and shorts are folded in it. Our bookshelf has room on it again! We put all our movies and computer/PS3 games on it while before we couldn't even fit another book on it. It feels great.
Our bathroom is completely done. I threw out old cosmetics, tossed lotions I never use and hair products that were way past its prime. We have a very tiny bathroom so we really can't keep much in there and what is in there, needs to be in there. This room was probably the easiest.
Our linen closet is now a linen closet! We love books. Have I mentioned that? We have 7 book shelves in our apartment and all of them full to the brim. (we actually bought 1 of those 7 this past weekend and it is already full). Well that closet was still full of books, well at least half of it was. We completely emptied it and moved all our linens from our bedroom closet to that closet. So, soo very nice.
The second bedroom now has 2 bookshelves and everything is put in its place. I just have the closet to organize, which is mostly empty so that will be an easy job.
Don't look at the living room/dining area however. That is an utter mess. That will be next weekends project.
So much done and yet so much to do!
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