Survey #275—Full Response from Ginger
| Share a word, a few words, a phrase, or more to describe the CURRENT or USUAL condition of your primary bedroom. | Cozy retreat. This space has been decluttered. We plan some changes to furniture and flooring. |
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| Share a description of the IDEAL state of your main bedroom. We’re talking aspirations here, so feel free to write in terms of appearance, mood, activities, contents, decor, or whatever elements would make your bedroom “just right”! | Our ideal bedroom is cool, dark, quiet and cozy. This is our retreat. We rest, read, listen to books or music, watch videos and sleep here. ▪️Structure. The walls are painted a nice taupe as they are today. The ceiling is white. The floors have luxury vinyl plank in a wide plank oak look. The windows have blinds and curtains. ▪️The closet is a wide reach in closet. My side is on the left. My husband’s is on the right. Our clothes are minimal and hung on matching hangers. We wear all these clothes. We have shoe shelves stacked on the floor. These hold all of our shoes. The top of the shelves on my side hold my tote bag with my 2 other purses. It also holds the Travel bag for my Cpap machine. In the far left corner is a small tower shelf. I keep a zipper case of my medications on one shelf, keepsake box on the other shelf and on top is a portable expandable file box holding our papers. There is nothing stored loosely on the floor of the closet. There is top shelf holds my husband’s hats and a few other items. ▪️Furniture. We have a simple king sized iron bedstead. Two bedside tables. A tall chest of drawers. A storage ottoman holds linens, blankets, pillows. ▪️Soft Furnishings. The bed has a cream colored dust ruffle and coverlet. We sleep with 6 pillows. We don’t have decorative pillows. We have a nice big washable rug that fits under our bed and hangs out enough to step on from either side of the bed and at the foot of the bed. ▪️Decor. Family photos. Framed quotes. Bedside tables are minimal with a drawer or two. Plus, a lamp, clock & fan remote on hubby’s. Lamp, angel box and Cpap machine on mine. |
| What factor or factors stand in the way of having the “just right” bedroom you described above? | 🔲 We’ve spent a lot of time over the years clearing clutter from our bedroom. ▪️We achieved our goal of having nothing stored under the bed or in the floor of the closet. ▪️My wardrobe consist of about 135 items including all footwear, bags, outerwear. I haven’t inventoried my husband’s clothes lately. Earlier this year - we decluttered a lot of his clothes since his size went from 2x to Large in 2022 and he’s maintained the loss. 🔲 Updates Planned. To Do List: ✔️1. Replace carpet with LVP flooring. ✔️2. Fresh paint but in same/similar colors we have now. ✔️3. Change our bed to one our cats won’t scratch and walk across the headboard. Our current headboard is too high. It blocks a window. AND, OUR CATS LIKE TO CLIMB UP AND WALK ACROSS THE HIGH RIDGE. AT 2am - THEY LOOKS LIKE BATMAN! I’m looking at a simple iron bedstead. One that’s lower so I don’t have to do a high jump to get into the bed. ✔️4. Get rid of the 9 drawer dresser with the tall mirror. This has been my dresser. A few drawers are empty. I think I can store my clothes in the tall chest of 6 drawers since we’ve decluttered so much of hubby’s clothes - or in the closet. ✔️5. Change our huge bedside tables to simpler, smaller tables. ✔️6. New bedding and curtains. ✔️7. Decide what to do with my stack of 4 baskets: Sewing, Journals, Photos, Cards/Letters. I haven’t inventoried my some ideas for decluttering these items and storing the keepers elsewhere. |
| List an item currently in your primary bedroom that you acknowledge has absolutely no business being in the bedroom. | An axe. Yes… an axe. We brought an axe to our upstairs bedroom after Hurricane Katrina in 2005. That was traumatizing even though we weren’t personally affected by it. ▪️We thought the axe might come in handy if our home flooded so badly that we needed to cut thru the roof. Or, if there was a fire and we needed to cut our way out. It floods in our area. In fact when my husband built the house - he designed it like a beach house. It’s built on stilts. ▪️The axe was actually under our bed for years until we cleared out under the bed. So, it went into hubby’s nightstand drawer. I found it recently when I decluttered those drawers. I left it there. ▪️I know it’s bad feng shui. I don’t really follow that philosophy - but it could possibly be a reason we’ve struggled with sleep for years. Hmmm…. I’ll take it back to the garage tomorrow. We are 20 years older now - I’m fairly certain we won’’t have the strength or energy to chop thru walls & the roof. |
| Here’s your chance to ask Gayle and Ed any question you’re curious about. It need not be related to this survey’s topic(s). If we think that your question—and our answer—might be useful or instructive to The Clutter Fairy Weekly audience, we’ll share them in an upcoming episode. | When and why did the “Meet-Ups” start? |
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