January Home Reset Vlog | Simple, Minimal Decor + Easy DIY Updates

Welcome back to my channel. If you're new here, I'm Megan Dalfini and I share everything from DIY, home design, decor, crafts, and everything in between. So if that's something you're interested in, make sure you hit that subscribe button so you never miss a video. It's post-holidays and I know everyone does it a little bit differently. Some people wait to take down their Christmas decor till after January 1st. Some do it on Boxing Day. Some do it summers between. For myself, it's summers in between. I do get a real tree every year and this year our tree was looking especially dead and it was almost just sad to look at. So I think it was on the 28th or 29th that I took down my tree and because I had all my totes out to put the tree decorations away, I was like I might as well just put everything else away. So I did do a bit of a refresh, which I'm going to share today, just to reset for January and into the winter. I'm located in Nova Scotia in Canada so we get very cold, wet, damp winters. Not my favorite season but I make it through. We are near the ocean in Nova Scotia so even though it's negative 15, other parts in Canada it might be negative 45, but we get that really cold, ocean, damp, wind chill and it truly just goes right through your bones. Like you can feel it in your bones when that wind hits you. So it's one of those times of years for us here and I just want to make everything feel clean and we should be good to go. So let's see. Okay so here's my living room. I have all my bins down from the attic and I'm ready to take down my tree. As you can see, I go with a real tree every year and it's looking extremely dead and it just became sad to look at. So we decided to take it down and I might go artificial next year just because it feels like a lot of upkeep and work and a lot of mess and I might be ready to make the switch. So let's see. I always take my ornaments and put them back into their original packaging that I bought them in. I feel like I should really order one of those things on Amazon that you can store all your ornaments in. It would be very helpful but I just need to order it a little earlier next year. In the meantime, this will work for me. This year I went to my local craft store and got some burgundy silk ribbon and I made beautiful little bows and attached those around my tree and I put them on a little too snug so I have a hard time getting them off. I ended up just taking them apart and storing them away for next year and I'll have a better plan for storing them as bows but for now this will work. I ended up recruiting my husband and two hands definitely make light work so that made taking the tree down actually a really fast process. He removed all the lights as well from the tree while I just focused on organizing all the ornaments so that they could be packed away for the year. Because our tree was so dead this actually made such a huge mess throughout our home while we're moving it and that is when we both looked at each other and said okay maybe this will be the year we go artificial as in this will be the year next year so we'll see but overall I was just so happy to see bright light come through my living room again and to be able to reorganize everything and get the coaches back to where they belong. As much as I love all the Christmas decor it really does feel good to just declutter because I do find the Christmas decor just makes everything look so full and busy and I don't know with January having this fresh start I'm just really looking forward to having everything a little more calm a little more less cluttered more simple because that's really how I like my home decor. The soft green I don't know it's just giving a little bright little calm and I just think it's perfect for January. This here is a vintage record cabinet player that my husband marketplace it's from the 60s it is original and we got it up at the beginning of November so we haven't had time to work on it but we do really love it to be an addition here in our dining room. It does need a little bit of a resurface facelift so I've been looking up some different options to do that and then we tore off the I forget what it's called but the speaker cushion cover from that one because it was really frayed and damaged but this is what it was on there so it looks like in order to install a new one you need to remove all this from the back so I'm trying to see if there's a easier fix if anyone knows let me know but I'd like to get that taken care of soon as well too just so that that has a more complete finished look. This here is my dining room reset after the holidays and then you can see here I've already started to work on the door that's going to go replace the electric cabinet so there was a hole here I just had that drying I'm going to sand it down I'm going to take my electric sander to all of it just to give it a more smooth finish I still find it's looking very like plywood then I might give it a skin coat just to give it a smooth surface but that's going to go right up here so I'm really looking forward to getting that closed off because it's been a very long time and then these here are the cabinet doors you can see here I've got the nail holes filled probably gonna have to do a second coat but I'm going to sand that down here later today and I want to sand the bottom of this one just a little bit to give it a little more space this here is my living room post Christmas decor I did decide to leave a little bit of the pine faux arrangements within my vases throughout my home because I do think that they give a bit of a wintry vibe and then this isn't perfectly styled just yet I pulled out some of my other decor and I do think that I might leave this frame up here but just swap out the photo I left these here because I do think that they give a bit more of a winter vibe than necessarily a Christmas vibe so I like this for the coming months again for now I left these pine little picks in my vases I think that they still give a bit of a winter vibe and I like the way they look so these are what I'm going to have stay here so that's everything for my January reset as far as getting all my Christmas decor packed away and just making everything simple and minimalist and I just want to show you guys what everything looks like before as far as the pantry doors and electric box go and just to show you like these were the old hinges on the door they were painted over they were very old so you can see why I didn't want to put this back up and I just removed the hardware filled the holes and I got everything painted I'm just waiting for new hinges to come in and I do take my hand electric sander with 80 grit and just sand it down the front of the door it definitely still has indents because it is an older piece of plywood but it doesn't bother me it's not sanded down enough and I've already got the paint coated on it and these pantry doors really needed a very good cleaning they certainly got food and just dirt from time accumulated on them so I took a patch of eraser wiped them all down and filled the nail holes so stay tuned in my next video I'll share them painted with the new hardware on because that has already been done and they look so good so stay tuned and we'll see you in the next one thanks for watching