First Stop, the Master Bedroom

First off, I want to say thank you for all of your comments yesterday! I truly love receiving feedback on a blog post. I think the best things can be achieved when everyone shares their experiences and people work together. With that being said, I thought I would share this journey, through home organization, with you! Maybe you can learn something from me, but most important, maybe you can teach me something! Goodness knows I love to learn and I think my friends and family are the best teachers! 

Before I get into today's post though, I have to make one thing clear: We have embraced our home. One thousand square feet is nothing to sneeze at, but the average american home home in 2010 was a little over 2,100 square feet (source). So, it posses some challenges that not everyone may have. That being said, EVERYONE experiences the challenge of fitting their things into their home. Our homes are basically a big (and beautiful) storage facility for our stuff--overly simplified, but so true. 

With this next baby on the way, I have felt challenged to really get rid of a bunch of our stuff (all the extra unimportant things) and make sure that what we have is important, needed, and intentional. I know there is so much stuff in our house, right now, that can be cleared out. And that is just what I intend on doing.

The first place I'm going to start is our master bedroom. This is an easy place to work on because Daniel doesn't go up their very often and it's also the furthest away from his room (meaning nap-times won't be disturbed). My initial goal was to come up with some guidelines for our room. These were going to be based on the functions that this room needs to embrace.

To me this is key to organizing a house: all your spaces must have assigned roles and responsibilities. For instance, you don't want bath towels stored in every room in the entire house. No, there should be one place that they all are located and that place should be as close to the bathroom as you can get it. For our master bedroom the list of roles I wanted to consider are as follows:

1. The bedroom needs to function as our bedroom, a newborn nursery, and a place for the dog's pens. 

2. In the long run, we will have a family closet in this room. (Daniel's room doesn't have a closet, so it makes sense to store the small amount of hanging clothes he has, in our closet). 

3. The overall space needs to be calming and possibly involve a place for nursing a newborn, curling up with a book, or just an extra space for mom/dad to escape to if need be. 

These are very basic, but will help me keep on track when I'm deciding what needs to go and what needs to stay. It's all about effective and efficient organization. Hopefully, I can show you what I mean in my next post. I'm off to start the process!