When we moved into our 4-bedroom home four years ago, it was
just Hubby and me. But we knew babies would come along eventually so we wanted
to have enough space for our future family. So when we found out TWO babies
were on their way, we were thrilled. We got to work turning one of our two
extra rooms upstairs into a nursery. Before it was a nursery, it was basically
an empty room with a closet that held my long hanging clothes, shoes, and some
purses. This closet was emptied to make room for all those cute baby clothes,
and I suddenly had to find room for my things in our master bedroom closets.
This required some major purging and rearranging (hence the closet makeover I
did a couple weeks ago). But even then, some overflow and random items found
their way into the closet of the second unused bedroom. However, seeing as how
we have two munchkins who will eventually have their own rooms, this closet
cannot be storage forever. And besides, we SHOULD have enough room in the rest
of the house to store whatever we keep, without using closets in the bedrooms. So
I set about clearing that closet out. Here is the closet before:
The suit jackets will stay in this closet probably until the
end of the year. By then, any that Hubby has worn will find a home in our
master bedroom closet and the rest will be donated.
All of this decluttering of the house has been really
freeing. It’s so nice to be surrounded by those things we really love and need.
I’ll be continuing the process this weekend to get in the full “5 days” and
tomorrow’s space has me super stoked: the garage!!