Have you ever considered clearing out everything in your home and starting out fresh and clean? Let’s imagine: fresh new paint of calming colors, less and smaller furniture, less clutter and only the items that you enjoy for practical reasons, aesthetic reasons or they have intrinsic value, go back in your home. Is it hard to imagine? Why? Are you like all the rest of us, attached to your things? Of course, but it is fun to imagine and it’s fun to do. Give it a try the next time you decide to re-paint a room. What color will you choose, how will you design the “new” room. What will you keep, give away?
I love to start anew and re-create space. Shake things up a bit. Our priorities change, seasons change, we change. Start simply with a bathroom or even a closet. Bet you’ll find all sorts of unnecessary items in that closet you have stored away for many years. You might even find something you have been searching for for a long time. Or a great gift for a friend.
An inspiring quote by William Morris in 1882: “Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or consider to be beautiful”. I would add to it, “and love”. Because don’t we want to be surrounded by the things we enjoy, love to look at, make us happy? I do. It is work, but it’s a lot less work when we work on having less stuff. It can be very gratifying to get to the bottom of the now empty closet and voila, it is transformed into a small office.
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