
Interior Design Tips for Your Victorian/Federation Style Home in Ashburton
Looking for some interior design tips for your Victorian/Federation style house in Ashburton? Here’s a helpful guide to help you perfectly capture the vibe.
Ok, it’s time to get real – we’re about to deep dive into decluttering and organising your home.
If just reading those words has you hyperventilating and making moves to hide behind the enormous pile of washing teetering on the couch, then STOP. This one is for you.
Shows like Netflix’s The Home Edit and Tidying Up with Marie Kondo have made us face our messy shame, and have shown us in full-colour how much better our homes (and lives!) would be if we decluttered and got ourselves organised.
And you only have to spend a hot minute on Pinterest or Instagram before you have a perfectly styled ‘shelfie’ to miserably compare your own overstuffed shelves with.
We get it.
Life is busy and sometimes it’s easier just to shove that thing under that other thing and forget about it, rather than mindfully organising it.
But wouldn’t it be nice if having guests to your home didn’t require that psychotic scramble to tidy and clean beforehand?
So, now’s the time. It’s time to adult your way to a home that you’ll be relaxed about welcoming guests into, and FURNISHD’s very organised design team are here with some hot tips to help you turn your chaos into a place you’ll be posting smug photos of on aaaaall the socials.
No, you don’t.
But you should.
A home that’s organised and free from clutter looks beautiful, is better for your mental health, and is easier to look after.
It’ll literally give you more time in your day too – less stuff equates to less to clean and organise on a daily basis, and you’ll no longer have that mad search every morning for a hair tie or your daughter’s school socks (even though she has TEN PAIRS).
So, take a deep breath, own your mess, and get ready to kill it dead.
"A home that’s organised and free from clutter looks beautiful, is better for your mental health, and is easier to look after."
Good question!
We recommend starting in a high-use area of your home, so that your efforts will have a big impact on your day-to-day life and hopefully inspire you to keep going in other parts of the house.
Pantries, wardrobes and bathroom vanities are all good places to get started, and we promise you’ll thank yourself afterwards!
To get started, let’s keep it light.
Try one of these quick organising hacks for the home to get you into the swing of things and make it fun.
Ok, maybe not fun, fun – but definitely less boring, at the very least.
Ok, now that you’re in the zone, let us take you through our favourite method for really getting serious about decluttering and organising your home.
This is also your chance to jump on the Shelfie bandwagon. If you have open shelf space in your home, use it to display vignettes of your special things, without overcrowding. Look to Pinterest for styling inspiration, and change the arrangements every now and again to keep things fresh and interesting.
STEP 5: Keep your house clean and organised
Once you’ve put the hard work in to declutter and organise an area of your home, your only job is to keep it that way. Easier said than done, especially when you have a family, but you can do it! We recommend making sure everything is spic and span and where it should be before you trundle off to bed for the night, because it’s amazing how different your morning will feel when you wake up to an organised, clutter-free space.
Some other tips:
Need some help with furnishing and storage solutions to keep your place organised? The FURNISHD. team is here to help source the perfect pieces to suit your home (and keep all that stuff under control!)
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