Questions to ask yourself … to declutter your home and organise your life
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Sort Your Life Out’s professional organiser Dilly Carter advises on where to start – and how to stick at it. Conduct a space audit – walk all the way through your home, writing notes as you go. Notice what you like, what you don’t like and what you could change. In the front room you might love the colour, but hate the bookshelf full of toys. If you got a better bit of furniture to hide them, in the evening you could kick back and relax without looking at them. Or perhaps you always put the washing in the front room when you have a spare room upstairs, or maybe there’s an occasional chair that’s huge, and nobody sits on it, so get rid of it to make your room feel more spacious.
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Be honest with yourself, because the problem most of the time is not that you haven’t got enough space, it’s that you’ve got too much stuff. Be realistic about the furniture you have for the space you have: if you have a one-bed flat, you have to live like you have a one-bed flat, not a three-bed house. Maybe you have all your shoes in a rack at the front door. If you stored spring/summer shoes elsewhere and just kept autumn/winter ones on show, your shoe rack would look neater and your hallway less claustrophobic.
So often we’re keeping things that are broken, that don’t fit, that we don’t need – that we don’t even like. Ask yourself: does it warrant a place in my home, and do I have space for it? If not, why are you keeping it?. Think of your house as real estate. Does your slow cooker really warrant space right next to your hob, or is it better somewhere else because you only use it a couple of times each winter? The most accessible cupboard is prime real estate, so it needs your colander, grater, sieve – the things you use daily.
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