Since we’re living out of three bedrooms and one bathroom right now, I’ve been focusing on things that are in the bedrooms and the bathroom in our decluttering efforts. I could spend weeks, I tell you, WEEKS on The Girl’s bedroom, but I’ll tackle that later.
So far I’ve been blogging about rooms/drawers/cabinets/stuff pretty much at random, but the – hey look, squirrel! – style of blogging will settle down when I can focus on one room at a time. The work on the house is supposed to be completely done next Friday.
“Ask Kristen” Is My New Favorite Saying
My sorority sister is an interior designer and, with her residential construction husband, owner of a design and remodel business. I called her in to finish our house. She’s been nothing short of a big bowl of awesome. We’ve had so much going on with all of our health stuff that I’ve been able to say – Kristen, please take over. And she has. It’s gone something like this:
Subcontractor 1: “Ma’am, what do you want to do with ____?”
Me: “Ask Kristen.”
Subcontractor 2: “Ma’am, what color do you want ____?”
Me: “Ask Kristen.”
Subcontractor 3: “Ma’am, what size do you want ___?”
Me: “Ask Kristen.”
I’ve got them trained. They don’t bother asking me anything anymore.
I’m not good at picking colors to go with stuff and there’s no point in fighting my natural tendencies to suck in all things interior design. I second guess myself, tie myself up in knots and then live in fear that the real estate agent will say, “Well that was an interesting choice. Have you considered changing it before it goes on the market to appeal to a wider range of buyers?” which will really mean, “What the hell were you thinking?”
Which is why my go-to response is, “Ask Kristen.”
And this Sunday? While we are out of the house, she’s going to place all of the furniture where she thinks it should go. We’ll come home and see what she has done. The only instructions we gave her were that we’d like as little furniture as possible to go back in. We need to have a reasonable amount of furniture for house staging purposes.
Since we’ll be moving to a much smaller space, our larger scale furniture won’t be going with us. And I’m totally fine with that.
The Declutter Thing for Today
While we’ve been holed up in the bedrooms, we’ve had time to focus on these four rooms. In my bathroom I have a large drawer in which I store all of my flat irons, curling irons and hair dryer. Now, keep in mind that right now my go-to hair style is what I call The-I-Work-From-Home-And-Rarely-Go-Out-Why-Do-My-Hair-Special.
This is how you do it:
1. Wash Hair
2. Brush Hair
3. Throw back in a haphazard one ponytail holder loop bun thing.
4. Go about your day.
I won’t be winning any competitions with this ‘do, but it works for me. I actually put effort into my hair like maybe once a week. And that’s being generous. So given all that, really, do I need these?:
I mean, WTF? I’m not a hair stylist. I rarely even do my hair. Oh, how far I have fallen.
I kept one flat iron, one curling iron and my hair dryer. I donated the rest. Now that drawer has a looooot of empty space in it.
Booyah!