Putting the door back would make the room look larger if the door is painted white like the trim, less busy. It's worth a try if you're storing the door. Great video!
Hey Sophia, good to see you. Maybe take the top shelf out of the closet and stand the albums up on the (new) top shelf. I’m not sure if you still love the green stripe boxes, but maybe move their contents into an empty blue bin (for consistency) or the wood crate. If you love the green boxes, then I definitely support keeping them.
The book "Hero with a Thousand Faces" is about the archetype of different characters through mythology. It's pretty much a writing book for characterization. I think I have that one on my Kindle. My household don't have many pictures. Maybe an albums worth and nobody's allowed to touch them.
Ms Sophia , start a new LAW, only covered mugs are allowed on the work space. I almost ruined my laptop when a glass of coke spilled I grabbed the laptop in the Nick of time, now only covered , lidded beverages are allowed or if you HAVE to gave a opened cup or glass it has to be on a separate little table 👍🏻☺️
Just wondering as your not using the top shelf could that come out and the albums stood up on the shelf underneath, they may all fit then and be easier to access? Love your videos they really inspire me to declutter
I had all my photos scanned, when it's online, you are able to tag them, by date, by occasion, by spesific things. Unlimited options. Once you back up 5 times, it's almost impossible to lose. Even if we lose memories are for the win💕
I do too! I was thinking the painting. would have looked so pretty if Sophia had put it up on the wall where the Memo board had been. I think it would have fit perfectly.
Yes put the door back, better than a curtain ..awesome video ...😁🇦🇺 also maybe that house picture you like could go where you took down the pin board ... possibly...
Hi Sophia! What about putting your albums downstairs in your large cabinet ( I can't think of the name of it) I remember you cleaning out the books that were in there before. Maybe they'll fit in there. Just a thought. I'm moving, so I've been going through my stuff and giving things away and throwing things away. I remember something you said. "I enjoyed this then, but now I can let it go". Something like that anyway 🙂. But that comment has helped me so much. I have given a lot of things that I bought and collected because I really liked them when I bought them. But now today, I can share those things with someone else that will like them. I really like this series of one box at a time. Thank you for sharing this great idea!
Yes I am not into family photos on walls, I only have my stitched samplers on them. You could condense everything in the small boxes into the blue boxes making more room. You could also move your etiquette books to your bedroom library OR try putting them on the shelves above your computer! Put the photo albums into large plastic containers to the basement for safe keeping or set them a place in the basement somewhere on show. You have come a long way over the years well done you BRAVO 😉 xx
Putting back the door sounds good. Or, decorators say to make an S pattern. Example: top shelf left side you place green boxes and on right side you stack black albums. Then on the next shelf you reverse the items-albums on left and box on right.
I am in the process of purging books. So very hard to let go , but I don't have room. Most are in boxes or storage tubs. An butting in another bookcase and will have to let go of hundreds of books as they will not all fit.
Sophia, I took every one of my photos out of albums and frames and put them in a photobox with cardboard dividers e.g. us,holidays, our home, friends, family etc. I absolutely love it, easier to find what you're looking for and we use it. The space it saves is unbelievable!
I'm with you Sophia, I don't like pictures on the wall. The only pictures I have up are the ones my late father painted they are so special to me. You did a good job in the office, looks real nice.
Just a note of warning. I saved the majority of the books I own and have read for the last 40 plus years. There are a great many. Now I am retired, and could read them again, my eyesight won't let me. So I am having to get rid of most of them.
Long time subscriber, I am amazed how quickly you decluttered those books. Great idea for a little library on your lawn. We have a few of them in my neighbourhood. Bring a book, leave a book. Going to order the 1000 white women book from my library.
Sofia, I don't know if this will help, but I found photo scrapbooks too cumbersom and heavy. Since I didn't make a habit of looking at them frequently, I decided to put all my pictures into photo boxes. They hold up to 600 - 700 pictures in each depending on the size of the box. The large 8x11 pictures I put into a notebook with page protectors. This works for 5x7's too. All the boxes take up less room than all the scrapbooks. Also, all the pictures are in order by date so it's easy to find what I am looking for. Good luck. You're doing a great job.
Going back and redoing the albums would never get done if it was up to me. I did go through all my pictures and get rid of duplicates or people looking away or people I didn’t know. Reduced a lot.
Hi Sofia, I have been your follower since you had all the walls filled with books. Don’t be hard on yourself. You have done such great job. You are a inspiration , what if you sew a pretty curtain and place it on the bottom part with a spring rod?. Just a idea. Take care and God bless.
You made a real difference! Perhaps make use of the empty blue boxes by moving things from the closet shelves into them, thus eliminating some of the boxes that don't match and giving you more of the visual coherence you like?
I agree about the photos. I have all past family members. Thank you for sharing that. And it makes me think about them when my eye catches an old photo I have displayed. 😍
Warning. Storing your photo albums sideways will make your pictures wavy over time. Modify your shelving in closet and just leave them in their album’s maybe
Way to go! I love the one box challenge…keeps you grounded in what’s important. Maybe you can sew a curtain to cover the photo albums?? But it doesn’t look that bad. Great job!🎉
Your picture (at 8:11) looks like the Walton's house. Don't know if you ever caught them in reruns but I watched the originals when they made their debut in 1972. The Waltons and Little House on the Prairie were my two favorite shows. I was teaching school in 1974 when Little House on the Prairie first aired and my students joked that if my house caught on fire while I was watching it, I would stay and watch the last of the show before I left my house. I don't know that I would go that far but I did let them know if they needed to call me they must do so before or after Little House because I did not answer my phone while it was on. That was long before we could hit a pause button or record the show to watch later so if you missed it you just missed it and I had no intentions of missing it.
Please put the door back on, Sophia. I think you would be happy with the door. Also, I would put the plate of grandma's in your family curio. It's a pretty old plate. Yes, I think I can probably get rid of more than I usually would (books) after watching your video. Thank you! 🌻😊
The office looks great. I was just curious, since French is your native language, do enjoy reading books in French better than the same or similar book in English?
I guess this is a good time to ask this question I am also going through my old photo albums many of the people I don’t know in the photo albums because they have passed away and the people that I can ask about the people in the photo albums have also passed away so would you throw those photos out what would you do with them
Your face is too much when your folding up the towels. Your linen closet is so empty compared to years ago . When you opened it up I was like what that's not bad. But now that you re organized it looks so pretty. You are doing so amazing 👏 💖
Hobby Lobby has their brand, Paper Studio, at 50% off every other week. You can get beautiful 12 x 12 albums that match and/or coordinate. They cost $10 each when half off. I have to have my stuff matching and looking good, too.
Putting the door back would make the room look larger if the door is painted white like the trim, less busy. It's worth a try if you're storing the door. Great video!
Hey Sophia, good to see you. Maybe take the top shelf out of the closet and stand the albums up on the (new) top shelf. I’m not sure if you still love the green stripe boxes, but maybe move their contents into an empty blue bin (for consistency) or the wood crate. If you love the green boxes, then I definitely support keeping them.
Hang the picture of the house on the empty hook.
I had the same thought!!! It would look so pretty there.
That's what I was thinking!
Could you take the top shelf out and put the albums on the new top shelf. Buy one more. Black one to replace the red one?
The oil painting with the white house would look fantastic on that hook on the wall.
great video! you have the door, wow, i would put it back on instead of a curtain
The book "Hero with a Thousand Faces" is about the archetype of different characters through mythology. It's pretty much a writing book for characterization. I think I have that one on my Kindle. My household don't have many pictures. Maybe an albums worth and nobody's allowed to touch them.
I have a garbage bag 1/2 full going to a thrift store this weekend.
Ms Sophia , start a new LAW, only covered mugs are allowed on the work space. I almost ruined my laptop when a glass of coke spilled I grabbed the laptop in the Nick of time, now only covered , lidded beverages are allowed or if you HAVE to gave a opened cup or glass it has to be on a separate little table 👍🏻☺️
I love the idea of putting up the curtain again!🌸
You could always temporarily hang a curtain over the front of the albums to disquise them further.
Just wondering as your not using the top shelf could that come out and the albums stood up on the shelf underneath, they may all fit then and be easier to access?
Love your videos they really inspire me to declutter
What a great idea!!
I had all my photos scanned, when it's online, you are able to tag them, by date, by occasion, by spesific things. Unlimited options. Once you back up 5 times, it's almost impossible to lose. Even if we lose memories are for the win💕
I like that picture of the home too!
I do too! I was thinking the painting. would have looked so pretty if Sophia had put it up on the wall where the Memo board had been. I think it would have fit perfectly.
Me too! It's minimalist in colors but also very inviting(?)
Yes put the door back, better than a curtain ..awesome video ...😁🇦🇺 also maybe that house picture you like could go where you took down the pin board ... possibly...
Yes, door is better.
The watercolor pic has the same color that your walls are. I vote for hanging it by your desk also! The door would be a cleaner, calmer look!
I was thinking the same exact thing about the picture! It would look perfect there 🙂
Hi Sophia! What about putting your albums downstairs in your large cabinet ( I can't think of the name of it) I remember you cleaning out the books that were in there before. Maybe they'll fit in there. Just a thought. I'm moving, so I've been going through my stuff and giving things away and throwing things away. I remember something you said. "I enjoyed this then, but now I can let it go". Something like that anyway 🙂. But that comment has helped me so much. I have given a lot of things that I bought and collected because I really liked them when I bought them. But now today, I can share those things with someone else that will like them. I really like this series of one box at a time. Thank you for sharing this great idea!
I thought for sure you would find a pen hoard somewhere!!!🤣
I’m not a photo hanger either. I bought all the sports photos my kids were in but never hung them up. I guess too busy living the life with them.
Yes I am not into family photos on walls, I only have my stitched samplers on them. You could condense everything in the small boxes into the blue boxes making more room. You could also move your etiquette books to your bedroom library OR try putting them on the shelves above your computer! Put the photo albums into large plastic containers to the basement for safe keeping or set them a place in the basement somewhere on show. You have come a long way over the years well done you BRAVO 😉 xx
Go for the door solution! Would visually calm the overall space.
Maybe you could remove the top shelf in the closet and then all the albums could stand upright. Or the door is an excellent solution
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Putting back the door sounds good. Or, decorators say to make an S pattern. Example: top shelf left side you place green boxes and on right side you stack black albums. Then on the next shelf you reverse the items-albums on left and box on right.
If they can not be stores elsewhere, maybe make some kind of matching book covers for the albums?
I am in the process of purging books. So very hard to let go , but I don't have room. Most are in boxes or storage tubs. An butting in another bookcase and will have to let go of hundreds of books as they will not all fit.
I love those blue boxes above your desk - I was hoping they'd fit the whole time watching lol
Sophia, I took every one of my photos out of albums and frames and put them in a photobox with cardboard dividers e.g. us,holidays, our home, friends, family etc. I absolutely love it, easier to find what you're looking for and we use it. The space it saves is unbelievable!
I'm with you Sophia, I don't like pictures on the wall. The only pictures I have up are the ones my late father painted they are so special to me. You did a good job in the office, looks real nice.
Sophia, what about taking out the top shelf so that you can stand your albums upright?
Just a note of warning. I saved the majority of the books I own and have read for the last 40 plus years. There are a great many. Now I am retired, and could read them again, my eyesight won't let me. So I am having to get rid of most of them.
Long time subscriber, I am amazed how quickly you decluttered those books. Great idea for a little library on your lawn. We have a few of them in my neighbourhood. Bring a book, leave a book. Going to order the 1000 white women book from my library.
Sofia, I don't know if this will help, but I found photo scrapbooks too cumbersom and heavy. Since I didn't make a habit of looking at them frequently, I decided to put all my pictures into photo boxes.
They hold up to 600 - 700 pictures in each depending on the size of the box. The large 8x11 pictures
I put into a notebook with page protectors. This works for 5x7's too. All the boxes take up less room
than all the scrapbooks. Also, all the pictures are in order by date so it's easy to find what I am looking
for. Good luck. You're doing a great job.
Going back and redoing the albums would never get done if it was up to me. I did go through all my pictures and get rid of duplicates or people looking away or people I didn’t know. Reduced a lot.
Hi Sofia, I have been your follower since you had all the walls filled with books. Don’t be hard on yourself. You have done such great job. You are a inspiration , what if you sew a pretty curtain and place it on the bottom part with a spring rod?. Just a idea. Take care and God bless.
You made a real difference! Perhaps make use of the empty blue boxes by moving things from the closet shelves into them, thus eliminating some of the boxes that don't match and giving you more of the visual coherence you like?
YOU are amazing - doing so much decluttering
Sophie, I‘m so impressed with your new mindset about books!👍Thank you for this video!🙏🏻💕
I really enjoyed seeing the french reader again because I also used that one as a little girl learning to read. Such a good method!
A lot of people scan their old photos and then get rid of physical photos, just an idea, if you did one album a month perhaps.
What about putting the albums in a storage ottoman? This will hide them, but still give you easy access.
You need a taller shelf so all those albums can stand up like books. That would solve your problem.
Love watching you declutter ty hun
You have come a long way baby!😉I remember the first time I seen you do a video in the basement with allllll those books! 😂🤣
I agree about the photos. I have all past family members. Thank you for sharing that. And it makes me think about them when my eye catches an old photo I have displayed. 😍
Sophia, can you place the photo albums in the blue boxes ? Or purchase boxes large enough to put them in?
I like the curtain idea
Maybe adjust the shelf spacing and all the black albums can look nice on one shelf x
lol. Sophia, you have more stuff than my mom, which I didn't think was possible! Love ya!!
Put the door back on the closet 👍🏻
Sophia, can you make a small shelf to your left to set your mug and glass on?? Maybe that would help with spillage. Lots of hugs to you!!
Warning. Storing your photo albums sideways will make your pictures wavy over time. Modify your shelving in closet and just leave them in their album’s maybe
Way to go! I love the one box challenge…keeps you grounded in what’s important. Maybe you can sew a curtain to cover the photo albums?? But it doesn’t look that bad. Great job!🎉
Hi 👋 you've a cute picture on your profile. Just decided to stop by and say hi! I hope you appreciate my compliment...
Your picture (at 8:11) looks like the Walton's house. Don't know if you ever caught them in reruns but I watched the originals when they made their debut in 1972. The Waltons and Little House on the Prairie were my two favorite shows. I was teaching school in 1974 when Little House on the Prairie first aired and my students joked that if my house caught on fire while I was watching it, I would stay and watch the last of the show before I left my house. I don't know that I would go that far but I did let them know if they needed to call me they must do so before or after Little House because I did not answer my phone while it was on. That was long before we could hit a pause button or record the show to watch later so if you missed it you just missed it and I had no intentions of missing it.
Please put the door back on, Sophia. I think you would be happy with the door. Also, I would put the plate of grandma's in your family curio. It's a pretty old plate. Yes, I think I can probably get rid of more than I usually would (books) after watching your video. Thank you! 🌻😊
I like your nail polish!
What??? Sophia got rid of some books 😆 looks good
Hey Aophia. Great work. I was wondering if you put whatever is in the green boxes into the blue ones. Might be better
Hi 👋 you've a cute picture on your profile. Just decided to stop by and say hi! I hope you appreciate my compliment...
Could you adjust the shelf height to fit the albums? Or take the trim off? Just a thought 😊
Great job!
How about cutting the door in half and just closing in the bottom shelves with the albums
Keep grandmas plate.
No,please, no curtain. The door would look better 👍
For now, could you put the albums sideways in the blue boxes?
The office looks great. I was just curious, since French is your native language, do enjoy reading books in French better than the same or similar book in English?
I guess this is a good time to ask this question I am also going through my old photo albums many of the people I don’t know in the photo albums because they have passed away and the people that I can ask about the people in the photo albums have also passed away so would you throw those photos out what would you do with them
I have pictures of past pets on my wall, does that count?😁😉
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Your face is too much when your folding up the towels.
Your linen closet is so empty compared to years ago . When you opened it up I was like what that's not bad. But now that you re organized it looks so pretty. You are doing so amazing 👏 💖
😊 to be the first here!
Hobby Lobby has their brand, Paper Studio, at 50% off every other week. You can get beautiful 12 x 12 albums that match and/or coordinate. They cost $10 each when half off. I have to have my stuff matching and looking good, too.