Create Space: Declutter your home to clear your mind

by Dilly Carter

Overview

Cut the clutter, live better with less, give yourself headspace, and enjoy life more.

Create Space shows you how taking steps to clear and simplify your living space can also clear your mind, improve your relationships, and enhance your well-being. This room-by-room guide to organizing and decluttering your home is packed with ideas, advice, tips, and techniques that are practical and functional as well as beautiful. Turn chaos into calm with step-by-step methods that you can adapt and sustain for your own needs.

When you stop allowing your life to revolve around things that don't matter, you instantly gain energy to focus on the things that do. Reclaim your space, your time, and your mind right now, to reorganize your living space into a place of sanctuary.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780241479285
Publisher:	DK
Publication date:	03/09/2021
Pages:	192
Product dimensions:	6.80(w) x 8.60(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Dilly Carter is a straight-talking, honest, and practical professional organizer. She is the founder of Declutter Dollies, a complete organizing and home styling service that promises to turn her clients' chaos into calm. A lifelong passion for fashion and an uncanny ability to bring order to a chaotic environment has seen her cleanse and curate the wardrobes of high-profile celebrities, busy professionals, and stressed-out mums alike. Known as @declutterdollies to her 30k+ Instagram followers around the world, Dilly now extends her helping hand on social media. Sharing organizing hacks and tips Dilly proves that you can not only make your home beautiful but truly make it work as a place of sanctuary. Dilly learned the value of decluttering when she began helping her mother, who suffers from bipolar disorder, organize her 'living chaos' at home.

Table of Contents

Chaos

The Trail of Destruction 8

Hello, I'm Dilly Carter 10

Reclaim Your Space 14

A Tale of Chaos to Calm 19

Reclaim Your Headspace 101 20

Bedroom

Make Your Bedroom your Sanctuary 26

Surprising Things That Might Affect Your Sleep 28

Shop Smarter and Question your Fashion Buys 30

How to Arrange a Feel-good Wardrobe 34

Packing 101 41

Doily Dash 42

Bedroom Checklist 44

Bathroom

Have a Vision for the Bathroom 50

Edit Your Products 52

How to Clean Up Your Bathroom 54

Bathroom Checklist 57

Kitchen

Create a Kitchen That Flows 62

A Tale of Chaos to Cairn 64

Use Containers to Control Your Spending 66

Organize Your Fridge and Freezer 68

Reduce Your Counter Clutter 70

How to Organize Your Kitchen 72

Zoning Spaces 101 75

Dolly Dash 76

Kitchen Checklist 77

Utility

Create Space with Purpose 82

Sort Out Your Cleaning Products 84

How to Rework Your Utility 86

Love Your Linen 101 87

Doily Dash 88

Utility Checklist 89

Dining

Clear Up, Dine in, Chill Out 94

Let Go of Perfection 101 95

Don't Save your Best for Best 96

How to Maximize Storage 98

Dolly Dash 100

Dining Checklist 101

Living

Make a Laid-back Living Space 106

Change Your View, Change your Mood 108

Heirlooms 101 110

Create Space for Multigenerational Living 111

How to Arrange Books and Records 112

A Tale of Chaos to Calm 115

Dolly Dash 116

Living Checklist 117

Entrance

Make Your First Impression Count 122

Use Your Under-stairs Space 124

Overhaul Your Shoe Storage 125

How to Keep Mail and Keys Under Control 126

Dolly Dash 128

Entrance Checklist 129

Office

Write the Job Spec' for Your Space 134

Digitize Your Documents 136

Don't Let Work Affect Your Relationships 138

How to Create the Ultimate Office Space 140

Dolly Dash 142

Office Checklist 143

Kids

Go Back to School 148

Why Are We Attached to Toys? 150

Teach your Kids Decluttering 101 153

How to Organize Toys 154

Dolly Dash 156

Kids Checklist 157

Spare Spaces

Transform Spare Spaces 162

Blank Space and Structure 164

How to Sort Sentimental Things 166

Dolly Dash 168

Spare Spaces Checklist 169

Calm

Realize Your Vision 174

Create Space 174

Resources

Look After your Mental Health 180

Donate Responsibly 182

My Favourite Places to Resell and Buy 183

Essential Kit 186

Index 188

Acknowledgements 191

Declutter Dollies 192