Mission Decluttering #4 – Our Living Room & Office

This used to be our office.

No where near clean and organized and this is what it turned into.

This is our living room/office now.  A smooshed up, cluttered mess.

We do EVERYTHING out of this room – have parties here, watch TV, play with Lily, run my husband’s company out of here, play games, read, work, literally everything.  So it’s really no surprise that it is a dumping ground and I hate it!  I have tried everything to keep it clean and organized, but no matter what I do it just doesn’t happen.  My thought is, if I declutter and minimize as much as possible there is a chance that it might just stay clean.  Right?

Here goes nothing, or lots.  Not sure yet.

After two days of decluttering, our living room and office yielded the following:
-          One bin of recycling (including papers that need to be shredded)
-          One photo box of photos that I have sent to be scanned
-          A box of craft supplies that I no longer needed
-          A box of duplicate office supplies that we plan to donate
-          10 CDs that we put onto our computer
-          12 books that we plan to sell
-          A stack of magazines that we took to our gym
-          A bag of garbage (grocery bag)

Almost embarrassing that that amount of ‘stuff’came out of such a small space.I doubt if it will stay clean for long, eight hands in a small space do not a clean space make.

After all of that, this is what it looks like now ...

Can you spot the differences?  I think it looks better and it gives us WAY more space for Lily!  We got rid of the two humungous armchairs and got two small armchairs from IKEA, we moved the couch against the wall and changed the storage bench to an actual coffee table.

It's still a teeny tiny space, but it's a cleaner space!

Next up – Kitchen & Nook!