TRANSFORM YOUR HOME :: Extreme Decluttering Motivation for Excess Home Decor & Kids Rooms

Hey guys, welcome back today. We are decluttering more around the house and I have my sister visiting again. I asked her to come back and help me because honestly it's been so nice going through our kitchen and going through my bathroom and I did okay with my by myself, but it was so much better when she was here. She just like kind of made me be a little bit more harsh than I would have been by myself and it was so good and I felt like so much more peace in our kitchen so today we are going to be going into our guest bedroom because that's where we have like a ton of home decor and things like that. We're also going to be going through some of our Christmas bins because I decorated and I still have some left so I want to go through some of that and then I also want to go through like some of the boys rooms and some of their clothes and stuff like that. Anyway, we have a lot to get done. Hopefully we can be very productive and just declutter a ton. So let's get into it. Alright, I know you're thinking like why are we sitting here looking at your bed frame when we're about to be decluttering, but typically our guest bedroom where we're going to be decluttering is kind of like our drop zone, I know. I'm sure it is like that in a lot of people's homes, but the thrifted bed frame that we actually got for our recent room rescue makeover was sitting in there so I needed to clear that out and when I took it out of there, obviously I needed somewhere to put it so we decided to go ahead and just change it out for our bed frame because I've been actually looking for a new bed frame for a long time and we found this one for like $125 on Facebook Marketplace and I just think it's so pretty. So we're going to go ahead and change that out really quick and I'm really curious to hear what you guys are thinking about this. I honestly just love it so much. I feel like it just kind of gives like a softer more elevated look to our bedroom and actually it's making me rethink the paint color on our walls. I don't think I'm going to repaint all of them because if you've been here for a while you know I just repainted all the bedroom walls white. I think it was Benjamin Moore White Dove to be exact but I think I'm actually going to be painting at least the back wall probably Urbane Bronze by Sherwin-Williams. I just love that color. I think it's so beautiful. We're going to be adding in some trim boxes to the back wall and I think I want to paint it that dark color especially because now we'll have this light headboard and so I want to give kind of that contrast and really make this like a focal area but like I said I cannot wait to hear what your thoughts are on the new bed frame. All right you guys have to let me know what you're thinking about the bed if you love it if you like our original bed. I know for me we've slept in this bed now for a few nights and I just love it so much. Before we get into the massive decluttering which you guys I got rid of so much and actually feels so good I did want to say a huge thank you to Eufy for teaming up with me and today's video. Now we have had our Eufy S1 Pro for several months and it has been the most thorough robot vacuum that we've used. Now over on the left side of the screen I want to share all the amazing features that we love about it but I want to talk super candidly about this amazing floor washing robot vacuum. So what I mean when I say it's thorough is it has next level mapping so it always knows where it's at and it always cleans the floor in the most effective ways without bouncing around aimlessly which is amazing because then it's not taking extra time it's just doing the job the right way first. 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Hopefully that the doors will get installed before the video so you guys can go ahead and see what they look like but I'm so excited that finally after like three years of living here we are getting some doors and we can take down the curtain that's been the makeshift door. All right here we go. I'm not gonna touch my face though. She's allergic to cats and we have like a bunch of them. All right table runners. If you don't do it like this where you take pictures right away and like put it in an area then it goes into a pile of like oh I'm going to sell this you don't do it. I have a big pile in my garage right now. That's exactly in that category. Exactly. Well what are you wanting these shelves to like be intended for? Like your home decor that you switch to? I would say mine. Yeah and then room rescue be like the storage unit. Yeah okay so let's put this in a box that goes to the storage unit for room rescue if that makes sense. This is the room rescue box. Another runner. So this is one of the things that I have a hard time decluttering because you know this is like 20 pillow covers that over the years they've gotten and it's like oh this says like eight dollars or you know 15 bucks or something and they don't take up a lot of space. This hasn't been opened. No this has not been opened. I didn't notice it because I got it and then I got buried in here. And the things you spent money on like just sits there. Yeah oh there's more. So one thing that I really have had a hard time with is if it fits you can keep it right like that's been my theory for a while and I try to still declutter things but I have found personally that that theory is wrong and when I really get in trouble with that is when I have multiples of the same item. So for example back over in our kitchen when we decluttered my kitchen I had like probably 12 or 13 different wooden utensils and I never ever used 12 or 13 but it was like they all technically fit they were all the same thing so it was like why get rid of a bunch but my sister kind of encouraged me to pick only a few and so now I probably have like five maybe six and I have not missed the extras and it actually looks so much more calming and peaceful over there. So I will just share my recommendation from experience with you but if you have too many of something it can be overwhelming and it actually is a benefit to not keep all of the multiples. So do with that what you will but that is one thing that I've kind of realized more recently. Another perfect example of this is I had all of this extra paint in my craft cabinet area just because it fit but that's not really a good enough reason to keep it if I'm not using it and I was not using a lot of this stuff. So out it goes. Okay so yeah this is where it's to me gonna get a little hard because this is like I regularly change out decor and I do pull from a lot of this like some of this like I'll find at Goodwill which is another reason like yeah. These don't belong in here. They belong more in Christmas if you're to keep them. But you just kind of mentioned like waxy candles just get messy. Yeah I feel like they're pretty but yeah. Um I just don't use it because I have a different one that I like. Yeah see them and find them. I like this one. I like it. It's very beautiful. Thank you. I got that thrifted. I love it. Okay this I would put with my fall stuff but I got it thrifted. I don't have that here but I put it over here. Okay. I love this. I know. I know you do. Do you love it? I do. It's really cool. Yeah it's really cool. I feel like this has a lot of different uses too that it's worth saving. Okay so I always am changing out books. So I would say for sure we've got to do another box run. Yeah we have three full boxes there. One's like piling over. It is good. They're not all donations so it's not like we're getting rid of necessarily. We're just like putting them in their necessary spots. Like one's gonna go to room rescue. It'll be so much more functional like you have all room rescue in one spot and then some is donate. Some is stuff that we feel like is too nice to donate. Won't be useful here but we want to see if we can sell them or like give them to somebody that we know. You know like that type of thing. Someone that could use them. This is what it's been. Oh my gosh there's more. I know. And look at this. Obviously if we still have some more stuff but like look how much nicer and it's actually inspiring like oh I want that piece. Which one do you like Charlotte? Do you like this side or do you like this side or this side? Your mom's side or this one? Our plan of attack for all of the home decor was we were just pulling out one shelf at a time and I was only keeping pieces that I truly was always gravitating towards and then decluttering anything that I was always passing over. I know it can be hard to be real with yourself on this but trust me this was really hard for me to get rid of things and in the end I have felt so much more peace and so much more inspiration every time I come into these cabinets. So I guarantee it will be worth it if you're really honest with yourself. In this drawer I have like different paints and stuff. Oh no I made this for grandma. I'll clear this out and put this into into the cabinets. All right I'm about to show you the before and look at how packed full every single shelf was and this is the after. It's not completely bare but it's not stuffed and instead you can just see each item. Nothing is stacked. Everything is placed very beautifully and it's actually inspiring to open a door and not overwhelming which is such a relief. Now don't get me wrong I love decor. I love creating a warm cozy space but this just goes to show that too much of a good thing can absolutely be a bad thing. So declutter and give yourself the peace that you deserve. We went through all the cabinets. They look so much better and then we actually filled up three boxes. This one right here is gonna be kind of focused on like room rescue like the really nice items. This is declutter and donate and this is either declutter and maybe sell and then these are I'm going to post them on Facebook marketplace. One room is down. Next we're actually going to work on our Christmas decor and declutter whatever I like didn't use and maybe won't use next year. All right moving on to the Christmas declutter. Again it's kind of difficult to get rid of things especially when it's like technically you can use them technically they still work but if you are constantly passing over items those items deserve to be decluttered. They deserve to go to a home that's going to use them and utilize them and enjoy them versus just staying in your bins and your totes year after year. So that's what we did is I just decluttered that and then I actually pulled aside a few items that I'm planning to decorate my sister's house one of my other sisters and I'm going to be decorating her home for Christmas because she's actually finishing up with nursing school and she has been so busy. So I'm really excited to go down to her house and just decorate and kind of create the magic of Christmas for her and I'm planning to take you guys with me so stay tuned for that video. Okay so this garland is the garland that we've used on our stairs for the last ever since we moved into this house but do you see the little like snow pieces these little snow pieces on there just like fall off all year round or like not all year round all season long. So we cleared out one bin completely we have this bin this bin is like pretty empty there's not too much in there and then this has some garland that we're going to use on the stairs and then also the pieces that go on the Christmas tree so that'll get used this year. Okay so we're obviously in Liam's room I want to at least go through Liam and Noah's room and give them a little head start because a lot of times I will it's like I will just include them in the entire process but sometimes then I feel like it's not as effective so I'm gonna actually try doing what I usually do with Kaia like I'll do this today give them a head start and then they will have say over things like what they keep but I'll kind of encourage them and that's what my sister is saying she does with her kids a lot like your younger kids so that's what we're gonna do today. It'll be good especially in Liam's room because he is like so sentimental about every little thing which is so sweet but it's hard when then he wants to keep everything and then also like Luke will give him clothes that doesn't fit him anymore and so like we just went through Liam's clothes and already they're like stacked and I haven't bought him anything new. It'll be good we'll kind of go through his closet a little bit and then also his clothing. Okay well something that I used to do for the kids when they were younger and I felt like they cared a little bit less about clothes is I would say 10 of each item or like maybe 14 so like you could have two full weeks of clothing that was kind of like my number and so it was like we just narrowed it down to 10 and it was nice because they were constantly like rotating through their clothes versus how the shirts are right now for example where there's just too many to even see what you have. These ones I think we're gonna keep and then these three I'll ask him about and see what he wants to do but it closes so easy now. So this is like a little hat loop hanger and it's actually really nice as long as your hats have the holes in them you can just hang up a bunch but we're gonna declare some. So this I just wanted to mention because I think it's so fun but Liam actually collects antiques and those were all different antiques that he has actually found himself from thrifting at different thrift stores so I'm actually planning on building a tall really long shelf that he can go ahead and display all of his beautiful antiques and actually enjoy them and it'll also be really nice because it'll clear out a lot of closet space which he could definitely use a little bit more of and with that including all his clothes and all his extra things I would say Liam's room was definitely a success. Now we'll head on in to Noah's room. So Noah loves Hawaiian shirts so we found some like the thrift store. These hangers are really nice if you are dealing with like a small closet area because then you can still see everything but just small space. All right in just a second we're gonna start going through all of Noah's toys and I feel like the toys have been a little bit of a weird situation because Noah for example is our youngest and when Luke was this old he was really still into toys but I think because Liam and Noah have an older brother they tend to kind of go after the things that Luke is more into also and they almost just grew up a little faster which is definitely bittersweet to me but with that being said I really feel like they do not pull out these toys all the time like they pull out certain ones for sure but a lot of them they just do not gravitate towards so instead of asking them like hey do you want this I'm pulling the things aside that I never see them using and then I was able to ask them later on like do you feel comfortable getting rid of these yes or no and the cool thing is like all the trains and the cars and things that he just never played with anymore we were actually able to give those to my sister's little boy who absolutely loves trains and cars so it worked out so perfect and Noah was so excited to pass those toys on to his it's like the cartoons are just like yeah holy get out of your pockets keep okay this ring pop and all the other random things that I found in the bins leads me to ask what has been the most random item that you have found in your kids rooms or even in your own spaces when you've been cleaning and decluttering I'm really curious so drop your answers down in the comments so I think Noah's room is done I just have to bring all the stuff that we're donating out all righty this is Noah's before we literally could not even close his drawers they were so stuffed full and this is the after every drawer has just enough clothes and I'm feeling like we can finally breathe Noah can finally breathe in here and I'm so grateful for that it looks and feels like a breath of fresh air and honestly our whole entire home is feeling that way the more I go through it now decluttering is not something you do once and you're done like I have decluttered so much over the years but over time I feel like you get a little bit more comfortable with less which is so nice and then you can feel even more comfortable next time you declutter to get rid of even more one two three four five six seven eight nine ten eleven twelve and more oh my gosh I cannot believe we pulled all of this out of our closets and the crevices and the bedrooms and the dressers and all the places and those places were stuffed to the brim with all these things that we weren't using and now we can breathe now our home can breathe and I'm really excited to continue this process go into more areas I think my closet and dressers might be next and I'm a little worried I think my sister is definitely going to make a dent in that I'm really excited for that I don't know if that'll be before the end of the year or if it'll be in the new year but either way stay tuned because that is for sure coming thank you so much for hanging out with me today and don't forget to check out the eufy discount code like I said you can save $500 on the most amazing floor washing robot vacuum ever you guys are going to love it so I'll have that information down below if you're not subscribed already make sure you subscribe down below and if you didn't see our previous declutter video I'm going to link that over here on the screen so you can go ahead and check it out and get even more decluttering motivation that one was really fun so definitely check that out and I will see you in the next one bye guys