It's one thing to know you're selling your house sometime in the near future. It's another to realize you're actually about to have strangers walking through your house, even the rooms you use to hide your mess. Everyone has that room you don't want anyone to go in. The place where your old exercise equipment and boxes of clutter go to die.
Here's the thing...When you're in the process of downsizing and selling your house, you're forced to take a look at your house and your stuff with a different perspective. You have to see things how a potential buyer would, because we all stop noticing things after we've looked at them for a while. I found myself asking questions today like "How long has this been here?" and my favourite, "Why the hell didn't we do this sooner?".
Letting go of things hasn't been easy to say the least. Feeling how different and good a space feels when it's free of clutter has made it easier it though. Because as I told my son today, if something doesn't have a purpose or make you feel something when you look at it, why hold on to it?
Speaking of "why didn't we do this sooner?" here are some "before" shots of our kitchen. I have despised the wood cupboards and pepto bismol paint colour (not to mention the grapes border just removed) since we moved in 5 years ago. The transformation is almost complete and I'm thrilled with the results. Stay tuned for the awesome "after" shots.
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| Before the painting and new light fixtures. |
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| Cupboards before their makeover. Won't miss them for a second. |
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| Chris and his dad worked so hard on the new laminate. |
