Cozy Family Room! BEFORE and AFTER Clean with Me, Organize Toys, and Minimalist Living
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- Опубліковано 1 сер 2024
- Join me as I clean and organize our minimalist family room for spring! I share the before and after clean with me as we organize toys, tidy the room, and give it a good clean with me! Watch part of a day of minimalist living.
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// CHAPTER TIMESTAMPS
0:00 intro/before
1:20 gather the toys to organize
3:30 organize toys
12:00 putting things away
13:00 toy shelf after
14:15 tidy my desk
14:54 fireplace
16:15 clean with me
23:30 family room after
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I've watched your videos from Day 1 - that school room in your basement! Oh, my! I'm definitely a minimalish minimalist! Thanks for the inspiration. 🤗
Thank you for being here!!! Have a wonderful week!!
Moving the couch forward towards the TV is much more cosy
The empowering stockings! That’s where Pippi got her oompf.
(Judy VanderPloeg)
I used to change furniture around all the time.
One time I moved furniture and my husband came home after his shift at work.
He didn't turn on the light, so he wouldn't wake me and sat where he thought his chair was.
The 'thud' when he hit the floor in the space where his chair used to be, was what woke me up.
I really like that you give your kids agency over their belongings. They will have a great sense of responsibility and great respect for things as they grow.
BTW, the room looks very cozy.
Love that you change your rooms around and "shop your house" for different bits of furniture. I like to do it too
I love that you also shove stuff in your pockets as you're vacuuming...LOL
Ha always
It's so Awesome that Spiderman came by and helped tidy up! 😊 What a great guy.
I move my furniture at least once a season. It makes me happy. It makes it look refreshed ...It also makes me do a deeper clean.
I love seeing you decluttering and cleaning this room again three months later. It helps remind me that this is normal for most of us, we're not "fringe people" with unacceptable thinking patterns. Life happens. The process works. Seeing you process your clutter, especially with children, helps me process mine, staying solution focused.
I have the same wooden train tracks in my kindergarten classroom. I was able to get a few sets of them at garage sales. They are by far one of my student's favorite toys. I love how your kids have so many open ended toys. Many of my students enter school not knowing how to play creatively, because they spend their free time at home on screens. They quickly see that blocks, trains, marble runs, Duplos etc... are more fun than tablets. Keep them playing as long as you can!
I love the new couch placement. The kids did a good job organizing and decluttering their toys.
When my kids were young,a long time ago, we would talk about rearranging their bedrooms.They loved planning their rooms,and were much better at it than I was. Toys were sorted,trash and donation piles were made,and after a lot of hard work ‘new’ rooms’ were created. Now all three are married and their homes do reflect their personalities, it’s so fun to visit them. Great job ,Erica
As someone who loves to organise, can I suggest you label those toy bins? I have found labels (word plus picture of whatever is in the bin) to really help keep organization systems in place. Also, keeping the lids off the bins will make it easier for the kids to put the toys away 😊. Very inspiring video, need to get to my living area now!
absolutely a pic or labels. kids are clearly in habit of picking up now --- seous accomplishments. lables will not solve the problem completely , but will reduce the muddle.
Yes! A change is as good as a holiday.
We constantly move our furniture around. It feels so nice to have a fresh space that’s totally cleaned 🧼
Yes!!
I definitely love refreshing a room by rearranging and/or reorganizing every so often. It's my jam. 😊
Love your reading corner 💕
I change rooms around all the time. I have done this as a child as well. I love giving things a new look. So you are not alone! I love doing this.
I love watching ppl refresh rooms but I HATE constantly moving things around the house. I will move until I have it perfect, but once I have it, I never want to touch it again 😊 I am a done and don't touch it (except to clean) kind of girl! But I don't do ANY holiday decor for this reason, so I may be the odd one. 😳
I have zero holiday decor (no Valentine's Day, St. Patrick's Day, Easter, 4th of July, Thanksgiving, or Christmas) and also zero seasonal decor - mainly I hate having things on the walls and flat surfaces (the few things I do have on those surfaces are curated with the utmost care and arranged to the point of absolute perfection, so I hate when something gets moved from its spot), and I'm always gone for 3-4 weeks at Christmas anyway, so I would never see the Christmas stuff in the first place, and there is absolutely no room in my house for a tree - of any size (because I need the open floor space for wheelchair maneuverability, and there are other things that live in the only corner of the living room because there's nowhere else to keep them due to the wall outlet placement) - and my parents always put one up, anyway, so I get to appreciate that one instead (I always stay with my parents for Christmas). I like to move furniture once and be done with it, too, and only move things again if something's not functioning the way I need it to.
I’m always swapping rooms around, my husband always says he never knows where things are going to be when he comes home :) I like using what we have to change a space rather than keep buying things x
My grandma will change my bed and reposition other stuff when I’m not home because she knows she shouldn’t do it. She also deep cleans my room again, when I’m not around lol.
However, I do appreciate it and love a layout change! And good clean sheets are my favorite
I am with you on rearranging rooms. Every three months it seems I need change. Loved this video and watching your kids help. You are doing a great job.👍👍👏👏
Right!? Maybe it’s a seasonal inspired need.
yes I like to rearrange and shop my home for new ideas. Always nice to get spring cleaning done early in spring so summer can just be enjoyed
I am a mama a grandma and was an elementary teacher. I admire the way you are raising your children and your sweet manner with them. Little superman is soo cute.And your older children are adorable too.
Looks very comfortable. Lots of different activity areas to accommodate interests of entire family. You have made a wonderful home for your family!
Such a cozy space Erica!!!!!
Your youngest son cracks me up! What a cutie patootie! What a hoot! (getting his spidey senses on)
Totally awesome job by you and the kids. It made ME feel more refreshed and I don’t even live there. You’re a superstar Mama and organizer.
Try moving the pretty cabinet & piano to the other side of the room under the photo frames so that you look at the pretty cabinet when you're sitting on the couch. Move the couch a little closer to the window. Move the not pretty to look at toy shelf behind the couch against the banister. Eventually, if you switch out the plastic bins for something more uniform, that shelf will feel better.
I think your new living room arrangement works well! Great work done by all!
I like the furniture placement better this way, it seems more cozy.
I LOVE changing around furniture. Hubby and I even take pieces from other rooms. Makes everything feel new and fresh without spending a dime. Great video!
I love changing furniture around!
I enjoy rearranging furniture often too! I love where your couch ended up , I think it looks great!
Girl I rearrange almost weekly 😂🤣🤣 I loved watching this video while getting my dishes done tonight!
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Totally agree with rearranging rooms. When I get the itch to redecorate or buy things I think I need but don’t, I rearrange furniture and decor to refresh my view and I usually feel so much better and don’t feel the need to impulse shop for stuff anymore!
What I really love about you is how you let your family members make their decisions what to keep, what to declutter… I wish I could be more like you. I always find myself giving my opinion UGH! Even with Andy when you were down to sentimental you always respected his choices…
Great job Erica, the room looks great, love the springtime touches…I put your cordless vacuume on my Amazon wish list, I am going to save for it😀 been thinking of getting one, but also,didn’t want to spend that much on a dyson
We not only change furniture placement often within rooms, we also change the purpose of rooms multiple times, to reflect changes in our activities. When we started extensive indoor gardening, the basement got a total makeover; our offices moved throughout the house multiple times; the piano has pretty much lived anywhere; the toys move as our grandkids grow; we change who sleeps where; we made several big changes to accommodate the arrival of pets. Only the bathrooms and kitchen seem to stay where they are 😂
Like this. Sometimes we forget that nothing is fixed, we try to make a place work without realizing that it is the wrong place for its purpose.
With my empty nest when kids visit and hear “ I’d just like to move the…” the teasing begins. So yes absolutely I move things to freshen things up and make space for open grandkid play.
I love changing around my furniture too.
I enjoy rearranging my spaces and “shopping” my house to use things in different areas for a new look. I really like where you moved your couch to. It opened up the area nicely.
LOVE having a room refresh by rearranging the furniture! I'm with you :) Been doing it since I could move the furniture, LOL
Looks great Erica! I love how you moved the furniture and I'm always rearranging ❤️
Love your videos/ one suggestion would be to organize the bins with either pictures, words or both. I am a visual person and it helps immensely
I love the reading nook !
You said that the kids have a hard time putting things back in the correct bin. Cas says that nearly all kids are butterflies, and in a previous video you said you were, too. Like ladybugs, butterflies (as you know) generally (especially for kids) can't be bothered to take off and replace a lid in order to put something away, and so would much rather, and do tend to, put something down instead of put it away if there's a lid to be dealt with, so to makes perfect sense that the kids would just stick things in whatever bin is closest. Might be worth a try to take the lids off (would mean unstacking bins that are on top of each other) so that literally all the kids have to do is drop them in the correct bin and be done with it. Labels might also be really helpful for them (or if other kids are helping put the toys away as well) because while the bins are clear so what's inside can still be seen, if the bins are ever empty, it can be a lot harder to put their contents back in them, even if they don't realize it. I know having a lid on a bin helps kids gauge better when there's too much stuff in the bin (lid won't go back on), but it might be worth it at least to try out having no lids and see if that helps them put things away in their correct bins.
Wow! You and your kiddos did a great job! I’m still mired down with too much stuff but a clean, fresh and beautiful living room is my goal. Thanks for the inspiration 😊
The kids did such a great job!
Everything looks Beautiful!
Ur kiddos r adorable! U have a sweet sweet family! An Excellent Job! Yippee 🥳 👏👏👏💞
love the way your rearranged the room! looks great!
I like what you did with your couch and creating a little reading nook area. That looks really nice. When I was young and still living with my parents, I loved rearranging my bedroom. Now that I'm older, we live in a small house with 2 teenagers and 3 cats, 1 kitty is blind, so we can't really move the furniture around too much. Kitty needs things to pretty much stay the same, so when he's barreling through the house chasing our other cats, he doesn't crash unexpectedly into something. In a way, it's taught my kids to pick up after ourselves and keep the walking areas clear for our cat.
I like the sectional placement. Good job
We are minimal with our space - 1100 square feet/102 square meters (condo for my husband, myself and 2 teenage boys + canine so I don't like to store a lot of seasonal décor but a pop of fresh blooms is always lovely. Enjoyed the process you went through and good not to rush and make it stressful.
I purchased a cordless from Amazon last year and I love it! My house is 100 years old and small so maneuvering and finding an outlet is time consuming and tireless. The cordless gives me so much more freedom and it’s easier to clean more frequently and like you I can do my whole house quickly! I have stairs and the cordless is a game changer.
I rarely rearrange my rooms but that’s just because of limited arrangements.
I love the little reading/play nook you made for the kiddos.
Great job to you and the kids! Room looks great!
I wish my husband would not freak out over room changes…🤦🏻♀️❤️. So I make little changes. I like how you changed the room!! Much nicer! Go Erica and kids!!
That's ok!! When it comes to dust, we'll get to it when we can, and it's ok!
Yes! I love to rearrange my furniture and repurpose stuff to give my house a refresh without spending money.
Love your point about all the space to play!
Very nice. I did laugh about all the stuff under the couch. So real! I don't think I have ever seen someone on you tube show that! LOL Good job.
I have been with you on this journey since your first video and I am always so impressed with the gentle way you coax your family to participate in your minimalist lifestyle.
Looks great! I like to more stuff around too. My husband says I rearrange so often that I'm keeping his brain young and vibrant having to learn new systems 😆
I always put a seasonal item in each room. Sometimes a seasonal pick from dollar tree in a plant or wreath.
Looks cozy! If you put picture labels on the toy boxes, the kids will be able to help with keeping them organized :)
Love rearranging things. And oh god. Under the couch. >.
Hi Erica! I love the new look of your family room…you all did a great job. I love how you allow time for these organizing projects. Too often we try to cram a 3-hour-job in one hour and everyone gets frustrated. I also love how the kids are involved in the decisions on what toys to keep. I watch all your videos and look forward to them every week. I also wanted to express my condolences to you and your entire family. ❤️
I find dusting every single weekend helps to keep the clutter put away and stay decluttered. Since becoming a minimalist I have discovered I love to dust when I use to dread it when I had more belongings. Decluttering to me helps make everything easier!
When you don't have stuff all around it makes it easy to do quick wipe ups.
Ever since I was a tween I changed my room around monthly and I inadvertently became a professional stuff shuffler. Getting out of that habit is still work. I love your real life videos Erica 💞😊🌟
I love getting the kids involved with the cleaning! What a great way to teach sorting, colors, shapes, responsibility and charity! You rock!
I used to move furniture around when I was younger though most of the time I would rearrange it back the next time. In my current house I keep most of the furniture in the same place except for the Grandkids’ toy room. I move stuff around to see if a new position will cause toys to be played with again and sometimes it will. If I try a toy in a couple different areas and they still don’t pick it up then I know it is donate time. I usually ask the Grandkids before I donate something but if it is a small toy like from a Happy Meal or Dollar Tree and they haven’t touched it after the day it came in then out it goes. My Granddaughter has a Happy Meal Barbie toy that now, years later, she still gets out every time she comes over so that one is a win!
Great job, Erica and loved your new arrangement. Thanks for sharing and for your inspiration. Love your videos! :) x
I really like how you arranged your family room. I think you should put the white cabinet that is behind the sofa and move it to where you have the gallery wall. And move the shelf unit with all the kids toys behind the sofa, that way the toys are out of sight and the kids can put them away back there. But that why cabinet shouldn’t be hidden, it is lovely and you should display it. Maybe you can put family pictures on it.
Love your videos! My favorite part is hearing your rationale behind decisions, especially when you come across the harder decisions in front of us. So helpful! Thanks for sharing!
Erica, if you use the zone cleaning schedule outlined by the Fly Lady, you won’t have these giant cleaning days. The beauty of the system is that you get to customize it for your home and schedule.
I have mentioned before that I paid someone to declutter my house to a point. It is still not perfect but 100% more liveable. I moved all the furniture around in every room on the first floor after that was done. When my husband and I were in the early years of our marriage, we often spent every Labor Day weekend moving furniture and rearranging it to suit a new school year as we are both teachers.
The advantage to having the train set behind the couch is that people can still get to the couch without the train set in the way. So, if you were to let them keep it out overnight, it would still be tucked away.
I love to change up rooms and things.
Looks fab! Just turn around the seam on the lamp shade by the chair
As a complete book addict, I found trying to get every book I wanted to read in ebook format. It takes up way less space and weight. I moved recently and literally gave away hundreds of books because I have the ones I will reread in ebook format. Or they are available from the library as ebooks. I still have hard copy books - mostly visual books (photographs, etc) or books I cannot get as ebooks such as antique books. It has changed my life without depriving me of my addiction.
In the past I changed my rooms around frequently, even though they were pretty small and didn’t offer a lot of options. Now that I am older, I don’t because it is just too big a hassle, not to mention harder to do.
As we get older we really appreciate good appliances. Something that makes life easier is 2 thumbs up in my book.
Your kids' lives must have changed so much since you started this journey. What started as a personal project ended up beneficial for the whole family ❤️
Good job Mama!
Hi there sweetie pie hope you are well I just take one day at time great job with your decluttering and cleaning great to see your family helping out Mom love from Eugenie your friend Happy Easter to you and your family xxx💖💚💤
I LoVE your beautiful attitude Erica ❤️
Love your arrangement.
My mom always said when you rearrange the furniture people know you've cleaned. LOL
That is a big job, Erica.
It turned out great.
I have to say that you are extremely normal moving furniture around because I love doing that too. Haha
It gives me a different feel for a room which is rejuvenating, I think.
You are not alone in moving around your living room, we have done this many times. More so when the kids were younger and we had toys, etc in the room. It is nice to refresh a space, love the spring flowers.
Great video! I really look forward to them and love that you get your kids involved. I gotta say, that dog is a horse!!
Late to the party here, but I wanted to say I love the reset - it all looks lovely!
Welcome here anytime!
The seems on the two lampshades is bugging me! Lol
I Love doing seasonal room refreshes!!! We live in a small apt so I can’t really move the furniture but I do it with smaller things and definitely a good clean always makes it’s better! 😁
I'm so glad you moved the couch. If you hadn't, I was going to suggest it. 🙂
Good Job 👌 your videos are always inspiring and relaxing for me! Big hug and greetings from Austria, Maria ✨🌷💞
🥰 you need to add a picture on the wall in reading area and Ranger needs a place to rest. Perfect. When you are healing from grief things tend to be put to the side 🙏🙏
I’m a relentless re-organizer/re-arranger! I love to move things, deep clean, and try new layouts several times a year. It’s so satisfying. The room looks great!
Erica, I love your videos!
I also like to rearrange rooms, but I have very limited space. We plan on buying or building our forever home, of which I am so exited about. 😁
Love your videos. Thank you.
Love changing things up, especially if they don't work!
I think it looks great!
I love my cordless vacuum! We went cordless last year and it was amazing. I wanted to be able to vacuum quick and easy when we had baby #2; I was about 34 weeks pregnant at that time. My 2 year old can also vacuum with it too because it’s adjustable to make it her size.
I have always changed up rooms!