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Sick of clutter.

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My flat is in a dreadful state of preventable clutter and it's annoying! There is always this small corner in my flat that has a big laundry box with piled up papers, journals, books and whatnots. I am determined to get rid of that pile today. I really like the idea of a floor level "bookshelf".

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My floors are not grey but they are due for a thorough cleaning and polish. It's been 7 months since I polished them last.
81 words · edited Oct 16, 2010

💬 5 comments

  1. libertad ·

    Only pyschotics live in places like those. I like to have some clutter. Books on the floor?

  2. metalpeter ·

    great comment by @libertad .... It sounds like what you need is One Filling Cabinet That could maybe be in like a corner or some type of thing to hold things you need but hide them away (I need about 7 of those).... Here is the thing that is odd. Books you read on the floor is clutter but books on the table displayed for people to look at or magazines in that half circle are part of home decorating.........

  3. dimartiste ·

    You would actually have a heart attack to enter my humble abode. I have years worth of paperwork to file (thankfully I already have the filing cabinets);Things that need to be gone through, thrown out and reorganized to my new thought processes. Beautiful flat BTW! Very neat and organized. Space as a great deal to do with your perspective. If you had a small closed flat with separate rooms your clutter would not be the same kind of noticeable. Your open floor plan makes the littlest thing out of order come to your attention. I was less curious about the rugs versus white chairs, how do you keep them White?

  4. tinypliny ·

    I would be in heaven if that was my flat!! Sadly, it is not.
    Anyway, mission accomplished. I managed to get rid of every little sheet of paper that I won't be reading, gave away a zillion journals to the unofficial Mayflower basement freecycle, washed the grime off my keyboard, washed all the piled up dishes and scrubbed the sink, polished the floors so much that I think they are rather slippery now, populated a "floating" almost-floor level bookshelf with books that I will actually read, rounded up the books that I have always hated to be sold, packed up folders and old statistical methods notes to be given away, found @jbeatty's Lebanese cooking book that I never gave back (despicable me!), found a credit card that I thought I had lost and a cheque for $11!

    Next weekend: Bathroom cleanup and polishing.

    LOL, I guess this makes me sound psychotic, but you have no idea how much of a clutter a pile of random paper and cardboard can make. I guess this is part of how I get ready for a gloomy winter ahead - by making the flat so shiny that I can ignore the terrible weather even though I have no curtains. :-)

    What I really want is the Philips LivingColours :::link::: but at $199, it's a bit too expensive to justify as a "winterizing" purchase.

  5. tinypliny ·

    That is a really nice space.. How terrible. My corner clutter has built up ONCE AGAIN! AAArgh I made that floor level floating bookshelf work for about half a year and then I started throwing everything on top of it till it became a pile.

    I think my floors are somewhat okay now - polishing them makes them very orangey but they need a clean up too. NO time till december end.

    I don't like those chairs in that flat. I would sit on the floor near the windows with the low table. :)

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