So how has the battle to fight clutter been going at your house lately? 

For me, housekeeping isn't my strongest suit at the best of times but I do know that I feel better about life and myself when I'm not looking at to-do lists (in pile form) all over the dining table. 

Some amount of clutter-busting will always be a form of #adulting but we can make the job harder or easier when the house we live in is designed a certain way. How can you design updates for your house that will help you stop clutter before it can start. 

IN TODAY’S EPISODE YOU’LL HEAR …

• A story about the excellent advice I give my BFF (and vice versa) [0:58]
• Permission to let things go when you have to … but a little gentle encouragement that you (and I) can benefit from our efforts to fight clutter! [3:50]
• I’m sharing a quick run down of the cow path theory landscape architecture and how you can use it run a mild social experiment on your own household to ID key clutter hotspots. [5:01]
• Four ways you can fight clutter – from hardest to easiest. Spoiler: the easy one is after you’ve mitigated your clutter problem with a design solution. [7:00]
• How filtering out the clutter RIGHT AT THE DOOR can make the whole house easier to tidy – with tips from the creator of Apartment Therapy [8:32]
• Some history of storage in MCM ranches (and the houses that came before). We actually have it pretty good! [10:10]
• And why it doesn’t feel like enough. Volume isn’t the answer. We need WELL ORGANIZED storage to fight clutter well. [12:04]
• A fun tip for how to improve on walk in closets if you plan a new master suite! [15:18]
• Be real with yourself. I’m not Marie Kondo and you probably aren’t either. So design in the amount of storage you’ll ACTUALLY need to keep down clutter! [16:15]

Hey do you need help pivoting from your remodel plans in the before times to a remodel that can actually help you and your family feel comfortable at home in the new normal? I’m giving a masterclass on JUST THAT TOPIC coming up soon. Sign up here to get an invitation to the free live class as soon as it opens!

Grab the show notes at midmod-midwest.com/308.