Massive Clear up over the summer

First of all, sorry for not posting any more videos of my Spring clean up I did this year, but the videos didn't come out so well, so wanted to spare you with the pain of watching them. 

However this year I not only had a spring clean up, but had a massive declutter over the summer too.

I cleared out my cube units, as they were full with books, which were overwhelming me, so I decided to be ruthless and clear some out, and keep only those I know I am going to read. 

I have now made a rule with my self that I will only buy a book once one book has been read, and I am going to try my hardest not buy any more books until I have read the ones I have got.

​This has helped me make space to keep some items of clothing as I don't have much closet space.

Speaking of my of my Closet I cleared out the top part as it was full of Christmas decor, which is now in the shed, some hats and belt that I was never going to wear again, shoes I have never worn and some other bits of I can only describe a junk.

I also cleared out my wardrobe and was able to make space to hang some more clothing. 

I have stored my bags underneath.


I think am going to make clearing out my wardrobe a regular thing, perhaps every quarter of the year. 

I no longer want to keep junk, but what brings me joy as like Marie Kondo says and what I need. 

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The other area my husband and I decluttered is the living room. We took one of the corner units and put this upstairs and now only have two in the living room, which keeps our CDS, my recipe books and journals. 

We also got rid of our Cinema Surround sound as we never used it, our Xbox which Elv has kept for Henry in the future, but stored this in the shed and now all we have on our TV unit, is the TV, some DVD's (mainly my workout ones) and our Now TV box. 

As you can see from the picture above we bought a new sofa, which I think I have shown, but not sure. This was from Oak Furniture Land, in New Malden. 

We wanted to create a living room space and a dining area, so we could all sit at the table together and eat our meals, great way of having some family time.

Here is the Dining area of our living room. The table and chairs are from Argos. 

I also revamped our Fireplace. I was going to get some nice candles but Henry (our son) has the tendency to grab things like candles so wasn't safe to do this, so I decided to use the space to display some photos. 

The Frames: Starting from left to right. First one was a present from my Step-sister and is a picture of my family at mine and Elv's wedding, the second one I bought from local store in Wimbledon, but sorry can't remember the name of it, it is showing a family photo of my mum's Christening, the third one is my husbands family at our wedding, which I bought off Amazon and the last one is of Henry and my husband, which I created for my husband one Father's day from Poundland. 

The vase at the bottom was given to use by my mum, no idea where she bought it, but the flowers, which are fake are from Wilkos.

My husband helped me with the guest bedroom by moving our white bookcase which keeps my diaries, scrapbooks, photo albums, craft tools and some stickers into the built in closet. 

We also cleared the top and now only keeps a storage container, which keeps some files and important documents. 

This is my office space, but I don't really tend to use it now, so I am thinking of changing this at some point, but I am not sure of how I would like it. Here I keep more stickers, diaries, craft tools and some CD's. 

We wanted to clear off the tops and keep as minimal amount of stuff as possible. It is good to have such a cleared area, but like I say this won't be looking like this forever and will be changing. 

We also in the summer decided to give our garden a bit of a makeover and so my husband cleared the unwanted bushes, and tree that was there, and created some flower beds for me. 

The Flowers and plants were all from Homebase, as they were closing down, and were doing some great offers on flowers and plants.

We also created a centre piece in between the flower beds too (see below).

The pot we have had since we moved in, the flowers are from Homebase. 

My husband put down some Blue Slate Cornish Stones, which he bought from the Ashtead Garden Centre and Homebase.

He also bought a Water Feature which goes into the corner of our garden, from Primrose.

It really has been good to have a clear out this summer and I think I will continue doing so as it really has helped us make the most of our summer days and good to get ready for each season. 

Many thanks for reading

Carrie X