Dining Rooms: Traditional, Multifunctional, or Gone Out of Style?

The Weekly Tittle is an exercise designed to focus your attention on a specific space, aspect, or challenge of decluttering and organizing your home. We assign a new tittle in each webcast/podcast, then check on your progress the following week.

A Peaceful Table

This week’s assignment is to look for ways to make the experience of eating meals or feeding guests in your home more enjoyable. Whether you eat your meals or entertain visitors in the dining room, kitchen, on the deck, gathered around a coffee table, or sitting in front of the TV, we’d like you to consider ways in which clutter or a lack of organization adversely affects the experience. Reflect on these questions:

• What feeling or mood would you like to cultivate for your eating space?
• Is any clutter visible from the place where you eat? Does it detract from your enjoyment of meals?
• Does your eating space share functions with other activities? Could you relocate any of those activities elsewhere?
• If you eat in a space that’s shared with other activities, what could you do to make it faster and easier to clear away the materials when you’re ready to eat?
• What other changes to your living space could make dining and entertaining more satisfying and relaxing?

For the full discussion of this week’s tittle, watch the Weekly Tittle segment on YouTube.