No Accounting for Taste: Decluttering Decor for Your Evolving 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.

Up Against the Wall

Since our inspiration for this episode was walls, we present a wall-themed tittle for your enjoyment. Start by identifying the wall or section of a wall in your home that has the most stuff on it, one that was decorated a while ago, or one that just doesn’t look quite right to you. Ask yourself any or all of these questions:

• Do you still like all of the items on display here?
• Be brutally honest: Is there anything here that reflects a bad choice—a gift you never loved, a fad that came and went, a mismatched color?
• Is there anything hanging here that reflects a taste you’ve moved on from or grown out of?
• Could the layout be changed to make the display more interesting and appealing?
• Is it time to refresh the photos?

If you don’t suffer from decor clutter or have a wall that fits the bill, here are a couple of alternative assignments just for you:

• Look at a collection you own and consider whether all of the items in it still fit your current sense of style.
• Take inventory of your seasonal-decor collection. Eliminate any items that no longer suit your taste.

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