Minimilism

I love home design blogs as much as the next girl and I would love a beautifully styled home, but honestly sometimes I would settle just for clean and tidy.

I am not a fast mover, and feel like I spend all day doing housework just to have a house that is as messy when i go to bed as it was when I woke up. I've figured out that the only way I'm going to find any joy balanced between my speed of doing housework and the amount of housework I need to do is to have way less stuff.

I am making progress though. I downloaded Clutterfree With Kids by Joshua Becker to the Kindle app on my phone and was totally inspired to start living with less stuff. I heard about the book on Ginny's blog. I am getting more ruthless as a chucker as one of the benefits of less stuff getting in my way is that it's making it easier to keep things tidy around here. I love it!

I also love the dishwasher which is helping, and my robo-vac :) Just being able to push the button on that little 'sucker' and have floors that don't crunch when you walk calms me so much. I'm hoping that when we move in to our new place having all new surfaces makes it easier to clean too.

Where do you fit on the clutterbug scale? Any great tips?! "Do it now" is one that has helped me, thanks to Andrea Dekker and her simple living blog.

Mx

Getting There

At times it feels like we aren't making any progress at the new house and then all of a sudden things are happening. We are so close (well I think we are) but Ian says there is still a lot to do. Since I took the last lot of photos on the weekend the plumbers have been and fitted the sink and taps in the kitchen and laundry and fitted out the ensuite. Now once the electrician comes and finishes his stuff we just need to get the flooring finished and we should be able to move in. There is still all the little things that Ian can see that still need doing, like hanging doors and painting all the gloss work on the trim but all I can see is that we are nearly there!!

Mx