OK so I have been working really hard to organize and simplify my life and my house. recently read a little e-book called entitled headgate and fell in love with the principles taught in it. I don’t plan on taking the ideas to the extreme like the author and some others have done but I know that much good will come from applying these principles in my home. Right now I am working specifically on organizing and simplifying my home.  I am trying to assign each room a purpose and make sure the things withing those rooms are helping to aid in that purpose and not hindering it.

I started with the kids room because this is what kept happening…

kids room before I switched rooms and before the transformation

I decided that room was for sleeping. Well what do kids need to sleep…beds, pillows, blankets and a stuffed animal. So that’s all that is in their room. ok ok well you caught me that’s not all that’s in there but almost. I kept the rocking chair in there so we could read stories before bed and the books are up in the closet and I have a few boxes of out of rotation toys store in the top of the closet (I like to rotate toys every so often). But that’s it , really.Here is a picture to prove it 🙂

see just a bed 🙂

here is the empty floored closet

I love it and it is wonderful. In fact I didn’t know what to do with the emptiness of the closet floor at first but now I love it so much that it has become the goal for the rest of my rooms. So far I am failing miserably in reaching that goal but its getting there slowly but surely.

The living room was also easy since we moved our TV upstairs to our media room/office (so that it wouldn’t be a temptation for the kids). So the function of our “living room” became more like a playroom that we also entertain guests in.  So all that was left in that room was a shelf for some toys, our little kiddie table and chairs, and our couch and love seat, and two baskets (one for toys that don’t fit on the shelf and one for books).

Well there is also a Christus statue and some candles on the fireplace…but that is it.

The kitchen was my favorite transformation.

clean kitchen 🙂

I had way too much stuff crammed into my cupboards in an unorganized manner. bags of baking supply’s, boxes of pasta, and unorganized kids dishes.

before

So I came up with a plan to streamline and organize and this is how it turned out.

after

I also wanted to organize my spice cupboard and my dish cupboard as well and here are the results.

before

after

before

after

The other rooms have not been as simple and are still works in progress. I have succeeded in getting rid of  2 boxes of stuff from my bedroom and office but they are still not fitting into my new simple plan. I have this vision of this beautiful empty house where the rooms each only have the few things that need withing them but I am not quite sure how to get my house to fulfill my vision. I guess I will just keep plugging along and doing a little at a time. Purging and de-junking. I love the results but the process is very difficult. I found it so easy to get rid of my kids stuff but it is so much more difficult to get rid of my own baggage.