We rearranged the furniture in our main room… which is right off the kitchen and holds both our dining nook and our living room space. Where there was once a wide open middle of the room with couches, chairs and other furniture pushed up against the wall… we moved the sofa to section the room off into two more intimate spaces. They now somehow feel more spacious, and I’m completely delighted by this room now.
We’ve been slowly plodding through this book, Apartment Therapy. The book divides your home up into a room for each week. What’s cool about it though, is that it doesn’t just work with clearing clutter, but focuses on things that will bring heart into your home (like buying fresh flowers, or cooking a meal at home). What with the little one, working weekends, and trips out of town, it’s taking us a bit longer than the prescribed eight weeks. But it’s been such a helpful way of approaching our home (which has imploded since we became parents). It feels amazing to be Clearing Space and make it feel more like a home than a landing pad for our stuff.
There weren’t as specific directions for the living room as there have been for other rooms, so I made my own list.
The bookshelves have yet to be tackled, as the unchecked boxes show, but I picked out a few books to pass on to new readers. If anyone wants them, let me know and I will mail them to you. I have such a hard time getting rid of books, but they sometimes threaten to take over my house. I feel much better knowing they’re going to someone who will use them.
This book, Detox For Life, takes you through a process of detoxing your mind, body, relationships and home. It’s originally a sale Anthropologie find, so it’s filled with yummy pictures, and a really great thoughtful approach to making space to really nourish those areas of your life.
UPDATE: The way to enter this giveaway is to leave a comment on this post saying which book you’d like. If more than one person requests a certain book, I’ll choose one person randomly using a random.org widget. If a book goes unrequested, then on to Paperback Swap it goes. This giveaway will close Friday, April 6th, and the winners will be announced and contacted before the end of that weekend. Thanks for entering!
This Giveaway is Closed
And the winners are….
- Brooke won Detox for Life, by Josephine Collins
- Valara won Girl’s Poker Night, by Jill A Davis
- Ashley won The Five People You Meet In Heaven, by Mitch Albom
- Tessa won I Like You, by Amy Sedaris
- Marty won Skinny Legs and All, by Tom Robbins
- Caren won The Art of Aromatherapy
Winners are being contacted via email.
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