It’s So Open in Here!

Posted by Jenn Greenleaf Mar 22, 2009

Yesterday, I went through my entire living room area and did some serious de-cluttering. I started with my desk, which looked like a bomb went off on it, and started purging and organizing. Once I reconfigured my stacks, organized my supplies, and threw away a ton of stuff . . . I feel l can work in harmony now!

I moved on to the rest of the living room area from there:

I cleaned off and organized my nephew’s desk.

All of the board games went into a closet in another area of our home.

The TV table I had set up next to my desk to hold the over-flow of paper work I was amassing disappeared.

Books that needed to be put away because we were finished reading them or using them as references went back on to the bookshelves (rather than being piled all over the place).

Art supplies went back where they belong, rather than being piled up everywhere.

I also changed out all of my dark winter linens and fabrics for my spring colors. I can’t believe how changing something as simple as a throw blanket and toss pillow can make everything so much lighter, brighter, and airier in a space. Welcome spring! I need to go through the rest of the rooms and change out the fabrics and linens, too, so spring can trickle throughout the rest of our home.

I love that these little changes feel like creative phases . . . bits of artistic touches throughout the main living spaces of our home. My fiancé noticed the difference in how everything “felt” and how much bigger the rooms felt as soon as he walked through the door last evening. I’m hoping my children notice the positive difference when they return home, too, later today.