All posts tagged: Spring cleaning

Decor: Living Room Statement

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During lockdown, like most of you, I’ve spent some of my time contemplating Springish(now) cleaning and sprucing up the house, in this case where my mother lives. So we talk, once a a day about my vision and she simply stares at me. I can tell she isn’t too thrilled about the idea of brightening her beautiful living and dining room first and then we’ll talk about tackling other parts of the house. So she said, show me what you are talking about and of course, here’s what’s happening this beautiful Monday in the city after experiencing some unbearably high winds over the weekend, which had the Golden Gate bridge howling – so eerie if you ask me. (Take a listen here) But before you go  – check out some of my favorite ideas I want to throw around and 54 more from here  in case you are also in the mood to create a new living room space or just go outside and enjoy the weather  – it’s summer and some of the restrictions …

Decor: How Streamlined Is Your Living Space

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Now that we are all adjusting to live-work-play-eat-live-eat-work from home, I know we are all imaging all sorts of ways of making small or even big changes to our space.  For example – the laundry piled in the laundry room is probably making your eye twitch, and that cluttered living room needs a good sorting out. But the question I have is – how streamlined do you see your home now more than ever? {featured image source and inspiration}

Decor: Weekend Hibernation And Spring Cleaning

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This weekend, since we were destined for a storm, with heavy rains and thunder, I decided to tackle closet Spring cleaning, where I pulled everything out and created piles of toss, keep, maybe and what I call – keepsakes for another five years until I am ready to let go of those pieces.  I stayed away from social media, just rolled up my sleeves and dove in. Part of the chore felt like Christmas, where I found myself looking forward to opening plastic bins and boxes and discovering all of the contents – particularly perfume samples, and a collection of postcards from all of the places I’ve been. Even tickets to a play in London, and dinner at the Eiffel Tower – everything taking me back to wonderful memories. As you might imagine, those things went into the keepsake pile. What I did different this year, is order bins from here to help create a sense of uniformity in the closets and easy access for those things when needed are seldom found.  But what I failed …