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I’ll definitely be keeping all of my closet doors closed this Winter.OK, so you know how much I love DIY.

As long as I can see a little bit of progress everyday, I feel great.A lot of our big projects (like cutting holes in walls or electrical) are mostly done by Chris, but there are still plenty of things that need to be done that aren’t huge perfectionist jobs, like painting, installing hardware, or keeping the work area organized, that I can get done a little at a time and keep myself feeling like we’re moving in the right direction.. 4) Learn to get rid of stuff..

I cannot believe that amount of stuff we own.I feel like the amount of junk that I’ve accumulated should be what someone twice my age would have in their house.When we were emptying out the room for this project, I got rid of about 70% of what was in the room.

I either put things in the trash or donated them.Then when I moved the stuff back into the cupboards and onto the shelves that used to be there, I got rid of even more.

Now that I’ve had to move stuff back into our bedroom again because we’ve decided to get all intense about this project, the amount of stuff is really very manageable.

If I hadn’t done a major decluttering, we probably wouldn’t be able to walk in here.So we decided to get on another phone call and talk the whole thing out like civilized people instead of emailing politely back and forth while I secretly had a mini panic attack every five minutes thinking about this whole thing.

I was actually looking forward to the call.I was thinking that surely they must have some kind of amazingly brilliant explanation for why we shouldn’t make my book beautiful and photo-filled, and as soon as I heard it, I would completely understand.

But of course, that was not the case.Why is it that these phone calls always catch me so off guard?.