From Rat’s Nest to Restful Retreat: Mastering the Bedroom – The Clutter Fairy Weekly #131
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The bedroom should be a quiet, peaceful sanctuary where we recharge ourselves and enjoy intimate moments. But when clutter …
Sunday. Placed a fresh arrangement from the garden Black Eyed Susans in a blue and white Delftware bowl on my side table for a spot of happy color. Was a bit too bare! Every room or area should have a smile.
Please expand on self care routines….I realise this was never passed down to me.
All I have had been picked up from listening to friends…. Thanks Sue x
I also got my son to take Grandma's beautiful, but large, dark wood Jewelry Armoire, out of my bedroom. it was big, dark, & loomed over me next to the bed, & I do not need a whole armoire for my jewlery. It is fermenting in the garage until I try to sell it online. such a relief. replaced it with a smaller WHITE wood bedside table, that actually belonged to that Grandma's aunt Mart (my great aunt Mart's table) so still have the energy of the sacred ancestors protecting me at night!
Hey, I also got rid of a huge, black metal futon FRAME, from my basement rec room, that my son & his teen friends had bent 2 years ago …. thank gods! that thing is out! Kept the futon, & need to find a decent new frame. but the first step was getting rid of the bent frame – my son took it apart, & put it on the curb, just 5 days before moving out to college. someone picked it up for scrap metal within the hour! And, I also sent my queen bed with him, & got myself a new bed. so that is a head start, my bday present, I deserve a fine new bed! During the BED Delivery – they took out the old one, and I jumped in with my hand-VAC, got all the dust bunnies out of that hard to reach space too. yay me!
Hi from Japan! It is notorious for very small living spaces and storage. I got tired of seasonal storage of clothes. So, I decluttered all season clothes down to fit in my bedroom storage. I do store the bulky coats in the living room closet. My shoes go into the shoe closet in the entry hall (sadly, no room for coats).
Just an FYI, not everyone owns luggage.
When I moved in with my partner, the bedroom had three leaning bookshelves packed with books, a desk with a computer and two screens, and an open closet the width of the room. The amount of dust on the books and the visual clutter was unbearable. I was able to sell one shelf and put the two others in the living room area. Just about all of the books are in our hall closet now as all of them are sentimental to him. We put a California closet into the bedroom and also got rid of the bedside table, drastically reducing the number of cluttered surfaces. The room is much better than before. I wish we could get the computer out of there, but there’s no room elsewhere for the desk in our 1 bedroom apartment (we still have too much elsewhere).
We have moved a lot, and I have a schedule for unpacking after a move that prioritizes doing the bedroom first. No matter how much of a trial moving day is, we need to get the bed set up and stuff put into the closet, so that you can get your sleep and can find your clothes to get dressed on the second day. (I also prioritize the bathroom.) Realistically, the rest of the house can be a work in progress, as long as your bedroom is set up and organized so you can find your stuff.
I think that the moving day priority makes sense for the home in general, every day. If your bedroom is "finished" to a standard that makes it both functional and restful, then it's a help to you in getting the rest of your space done, too.
Re: decluttering when you have a hard time just existing, I agree, take care of yourself first. My husband had a stroke about two weeks ago, and he just got out of the hospital earlier this week. While he was going through the healthcare emergency, it was all I could do to get myself back and forth to the hospital, and take care of the dog. Adding in any other responsibilities made me just want to cry, because the very idea was overwhelming. And that's because I was being stretched to the very point of my capacity. Now that he's home (and doing well, thanks), I can consider doing a little more than just the basics. It will get better and decluttering will wait for me until I have time to get to it.
The thing that bothers me the most , about my bedroom, is that I store luggage under the bed. That makes it is very hard to clean all the dust under the bed. So this week, I decided to move the luggage to a closet. I had to reorganize the whole closet, just to fit the luggage in. But it was worth the extra work, just to be able to clean under my bed. I am just starting to realize, that when I identify something in a room that really annoys and bothers me the most; then that is the thing I should be working on first. I feel a big sense of relief, when that thing that "bugs me" is gone for good.
Tittle: I use a white duvet cover as it's soothing. I have fewer things on the wall since we painted the main bedroom. Our bedroom is fairly quiet. I don't put all kinds of pillows on the bed as that seems like visual clutter to me so I put two pillows only. I got a Robo vacuum to keep the floors cleaner as the vacuum fits under the bed.
These are great suggestions, very non-judgmental!
I agree with Kenneth, Gayle. You look beautiful in the turquoise and your jewelry is awesome!
The information you shared today is so poignant and helpful. You have offered resolutions to situations that I have not been able to even think about in a while. Both of you are so good at understanding the situations in which we find ourselves, often being unable to move forward in simplifying our lives. Thank you.
I uses to call my spare room, the hide and seek room. Hide the junk/stuff now, ( when someone's coming etc) , then we we can seek for it later! Lol.. love your content! Thanks so much!
If your partner / housemate has a very messy room, it might be a great kindness to offer to help them to ORGANIZE (NOT "declutter") so that they can better do what they want to do in that room (find things easier, easier to use the things in the room, etc). Very few people want to be in physical chaos, but a surprising number of people cannot figure out better physical arrangements of the stuff. Do not mention any decluttering, no matter what it is, the person will figure out for themselves what they are ready to let go of. Note – very often disorganized people are very brilliant in other ways and very charming.
If someone is offended because we call it the master bedroom, I'm sorry, but that shouldn't be offensive (in my opinion only). That's just me though. You can delete this comment if you feel it is offensive in any way lol. 😆 Now I guess people are going to be required to change the name of "master-planned communities" too.
So you only need to count two sheep to fall asleep? ( Referring to your painting.)
My little bedroom is very clean and minimal but hope to introduce a pop of color this winter with a slipcover for my chair and some curtains. I have Elfa units. Love them!
Clutter Free Minimalism works for me.
Gail that color on you with your gorgeous jewelry is making you Shine as a Piece of Art. You look so alive and beautiful today. And Ed you are my type so I wont get any further compliments today LOL
Love the Yellow and White
Actually, I think it’s perfect that you don’t have a title because that makes it incomplete as well!