Friday, December 24, 2010

Its packing time!

Its just a few days before xmas, and the time for our planned move is approaching very fast.I feel so unprepared coz i havent yet started packing.My partner and i have been working late and getting home tired and without psyche to do anything.Take out has been the order of the day but today it hit me that its time we get extra boxes so that we avoid last minute rahed packing.
We are down sizing and im wondering how the hell will all our stuff fit into a one bedroom apartment????????? Seriously i have to de clutter at the same time pack.I read in some website of a few ideas to pack.Here are some.

>Make sure you have packing materials like tape, scissors, boxes, plastic bags for clothes to avoid buying suitcases.
>Go room by room ie kitchen, bathroom, living room, bedrooms and others
>de clutter before putting any items in the boxes i.e maybe box, clutter box & moving away box so that if you think some items are too hard to part with they`ll be in the maybe box until you make up ur mind on either to give them away or not
>Prioritize your packing in the sense that you pack things according to your needs, this will help once you get to your house to un pack slowly and not everything at once.You cant get your house organised in a snap.
>Get rid of all edibles that might get spoilt on your way depending on how far your moving, try take out to lessen you left overs in the fridge.
>Replace everything you removed during your stay in the rental to avoid issues with the land lord.
>Make arrangements with the moving van a week or two before and always have a back up plan in case they aren't reliable service providers.
>Always leave your rental like you found it even if the caretaker will come afterwards to clean collect all garbage and dispose it in the dustbin after all thats why we decluttered in the first place.!@#*^)

Monday, December 20, 2010

Moving into a smaller house!

In preparation to move into our new rental apartment, my friend and i went to take window curtain measurements and while we are it my mind was wondering about how relatively small the space is and how on earth im going to decorate it.I realized i have a lot of work in de-cluttering to do reasons being:-
)We are moving from a bigger house to a smaller house -one room less.
2)The living room is tricky as it has two doors one to the balcony an another to the main hallway.
3)Our bedroom is smaller than our existing one an since we cant get rid of it we gotta put our heads together and see how we`ll follow the feng shui rules of furniture placement.
However our Kitchen and bathroom are bigger esp the bath its well designed to suit our needs and i cant wait to decorate it and add splashes of color.
We`ve got a bonus balcony and all i can think of is entertaining out there and how nice it would be to be bask in the sun.
Oops i forgot i also need to start thinking about patio furniture, barbecue grill you know the works here are some images that are giving me psyche.

Friday, December 17, 2010

Moving out!

Im 26 and excited im moving out of a rental house for the third time.For the first time im super excited as i believe we`ve got a good deal.The rental we are moving into is so classy one wud think we are living in the leafy suburbs of Nairobi. Tomorrow im heading over with my pal who does curtains to get some measurements and fittings done.Im so confused about the color schemes as i want each room to have its own scheme.Here are a few ideas i saved up.


Id like something as pretty as this for the Kitchen most of the color scheme in the kitchen is brown as usual the cabinetry is brown same goes the floor its all matchy matchy something i dont like doing hence i want a contrast color like citrus orange, to just brighten up the space some more.


If i could get similar curtains here but apart from having the beige background color id have burgundy to match the sofas it wud be nice.



Same goes for the bedroom but the curtains above are too dark for my tiny bedroom a brighter fresh green alternative wud work.


I want funky bright shower curtains with big holes and very jisty rings plastic i propose because of rust and all that goeas along with it.I basically have 3 color schemes going on in my digs which is ok considering the fact that i can re shuffle my curtains around the house to change the color schemes thruout the yr.