Design Tips to Help you Fight Clutter!

So how has the battle to fight clutter been going at your house
lately? 


For me, housekeeping isn't my strongest suit at the best of times
but I do know that I feel better about life and myself when I'm
not looking at to-do lists (in pile form) all over the dining
table. 


Some amount of clutter-busting will always be a form of #adulting
but we can make the job harder or easier when the house we live
in is designed a certain way. How can you design updates for your
house that will help you stop clutter before it can start. 



IN TODAY’S EPISODE YOU’LL HEAR …


A story about the excellent advice I give my BFF (and vice
versa) [0:58]

Permission to let things go when you have to … but a little
gentle encouragement that you (and I) can benefit from our
efforts to fight clutter! [3:50]

I’m sharing a quick run down of the cow path theory landscape
architecture and how you can use it run a mild social experiment
on your own household to ID key clutter hotspots. [5:01]

Four ways you can fight clutter – from hardest to easiest.
Spoiler: the easy one is after you’ve mitigated your clutter
problem with a design solution. [7:00]

How filtering out the clutter RIGHT AT THE DOOR can make the
whole house easier to tidy – with tips from the creator of
Apartment Therapy [8:32]

Some history of storage in MCM ranches (and the houses that
came before). We actually have it pretty good! [10:10]

And why it doesn’t feel like enough. Volume isn’t the answer.
We need WELL ORGANIZED storage to fight clutter well. [12:04]

A fun tip for how to improve on walk in closets if you plan a
new master suite! [15:18]

Be real with yourself. I’m not Marie Kondo and you probably
aren’t either. So design in the amount of storage you’ll ACTUALLY
need to keep down clutter! [16:15]



Hey do you need help pivoting from your remodel plans in the
before times to a remodel that can actually help you and your
family feel comfortable at home in the new normal? I’m giving a
masterclass on JUST THAT TOPIC coming up soon. Sign up here to
get an invitation to the free live class as soon
as it opens!




Grab the show notes at midmod-midwest.com/308.