New and Improved: Declutter to Streamline Your Renovation Project

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.

Practice Prep for Renovation

This week’s assignment is a thought experiment designed to help you recognize some clutter you’ve been avoiding or ignoring and find motivation to address it:

• Identify a room or space in your home that feels stuck, stale, unappealing, or overstuffed.
• Imagine a renovation project to overhaul this area. What changes would you like to make? Jot down a few ideas.
• Visualize the preparations you’d need to make to carry out the renovation you’ve envisioned. Answer these questions:
  • What belongings would you have to move or remove to make room for the work to proceed?
  • What furniture would you need to clear from the space or replace with better options in the reimagined space?
  • Where would you stash the present contents while the work goes on?
  • What would you be willing and ready to let go of as you clear the space in preparation?
  • If this space were renovated, what items and furniture would you want to put back into the space?
• Reflect on your answers and think about one or two tasks you could carry out this week to improve the present condition of the space.

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