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Since I did the linen closet last week, I thought I best just continue down the hot spots in our upstairs hallway until it is done. Considering it is such a short hallway it is surprising that it has three clutter hot spots. I will do the last next week.
I almost don’t want to include the before picture for this post because this weeks spot is nasty!
The picture makes the mess look better than it is -sad.
When we first bought this home, we did some extensive renovations due to its poor shape (when you get a home for just under ten thousand dollars you expect that).
When smashing down the walls in the hallway, my husband found all this wasted space under the stairs to the attic. Our children were much smaller then, and he and I thought it would make an excellent study nook, and it did for many years. Now our kids are all too big for it, and all it seems to do is collect junk from their rooms. It seems that when ever they are cleaning their rooms and find things they don’t know what to do with they throw it here.
It didn’t take long for me to clear it out. Most of the things were either recycling, giveaway items, laundry, or pure trash.
The pillow on the floor is for the dog. She likes to hide in this space when there is a thunderstorm going on. The boxes I kept here for now because they are going to be used on next week’s project which is a bookshelf that has made its home in the hallway for 6 or so months now and it is just not working out as I had hoped. Next week that bookshelf is going bye bye.
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- How To Start Decluttering When You Feel Overwhelmed By It
- How To Declutter When You Just Don’t Feel Like It
- 4 Essential Items For Efficient Decluttering
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I want that study nook so bad. But I think I’d actually make my kid study in it. 🙂
Yes, I wish my kids could still use this but one of my boys is 6 foot 2 and his brother not far behind him, and my daughter is almost as tall as me now which is 5′ 9″. It isn’t a comfortable fit for them anymore sadly.
I’ve been inspired to clear some spaces. Thank you! (not as many as you, but cleared a chair covered with items for months and the entire staircase was clear for a day!) I’ve got many more spaces to de-clutter.
Great work!
The study nook is a cute idea. I would have loved something like that when I was younger.
My daughter especially loved it when she was small. Now sadly the dog gets the most use out of it. It is her storm shelter.