But you know what I’ve learned over the years? Sometimes he needs a few days or weeks to create, and then he is content to break down or recycle his creations (he likes to make weapons out of cardboard, currently-that’s the stack in the corner by his bed).
Here is what I mean:Īt least we confine it to one room and can close the door. Unfortunately, I cannot show you the normal, semi-minimalist state of Little ThreeYear’s room, because it is the summer time, and to entertain himself, he uses every square inch of his bedroom to create. It is a large room and really functions as a catch-all room.
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Here is our guest room/upstairs play room/upstairs TV room/my occasional office. Here is how his room actually looks, with him in the bed reading, eating chips, and playing on his phone (or all three!).
Here is his side table, also a thrift store find, also painted with chalk paint. Here is a bookshelf that we painted with chalkboard paint (it was a thrift store find). He uses his desk a lot, especially when he was in virtual school. I outlined how we redid Junior ThreeYear’s room in this post. Here’s another angle showing the bar area, where we entertain (there’s not a lot of entertaining space in this house). It is another room in our fairly small house for the kids to play ipad or read in. She organized it, complete with bins and shelves, for my birthday last year. Our pantry is small and so it rarely looks this good, but it is now organized, thanks to my sister. Currently, our cabinet looks like this (looks like most of our bowls are dirty): We keep just what we need for plates, and when they’re dirty, we wash them. In the kitchen, we keep just what we need and use. It is not minimal, as you can tell, but we installed a closet system a couple of years ago that keeps it super organized. It is much easier to keep clean that way. On the other side of the cabinet is my travel bag I can just grab whenever we travel, my jewelry bag (underneath), and my large makeup brushes (I also have a travel size brush set in my travel bag). I don’t use half of them, so I need to go through them. We keep as much as possible in the drawers and cabinets.Īs you can see, I have a lot of products under the sink. This is our bay window in our bedroom, where we keep a spare blanket for cold days.Īnd this is us playing arcade games on the floor.
I keep my charger in the first drawer of my bedside table (I drilled a hole in the back for the plug) and that has helped me keep clutter off the bedside table. I have posted pictures of our recently-renovated half-bathroom before. As you can see, it is open to the living room.
Family photos and plants are important to us so we have filled the built-in with those. This is the other side of the room, with our television and chair.
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We keep several decorative pillows and a plant on the side table, as you can see, but other than that, our decor is sparse (I got our cute glass coffee table for free on FB Marketplace-so proud of that find). Our home was built in 1999, so it is a bit of an older home, but it has been a great home in a solid location for three years now. And we’re trying valiantly not to move into a bigger home, given that we would probably have to spend double to find a larger home in this crazy market. ThreeYear’s office!) and to make our home work.
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It has taken a lot to get our home pared down, as it is a full one thousand square feet smaller than our previous home, but luckily it has more bedrooms, so we have been able to create spaces for everyone in the family (and for Mr. I gave you a tour, four and a half years ago now (wow!), of our New Hampshire home, and I thought you might be interested in seeing how we’ve organized our North Carolina home. Still, we practice a reduced aesthetic in our family, and while we still consume too many material goods, we regularly reflect upon and rid ourselves of extraneous belongings in order to make our home calmer and more inviting. Minimalism isn’t a contest and there is no right way to undertake it, but I hesitated to call myself a full-one minimalist because I don’t believe I have gotten to the place where I eschew material items enough to warrant the full title. Years ago, I published pictures of what I called our semi-minimalist home in New Hampshire.
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