Tackling Storage Spaces: The Basement

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Tackling Storage Spaces: The Basement

Is your basement crowded with boxes, old furniture and other assorted odds and ends, but now you want the space to be more functional? Sometimes it's hard to get started when rethinking your space. 

Before embarking on your basement organization project, it's important to take note of what is safe (and not safe) to store in your basement. Because basements have a tendency to be damp, you should avoid storing anything in cardboard boxes. Using plastic bins with secure tops will not only help to avoid mold and mildew, but they will also help to keep out any unwanted critters.

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How To Display and Store Sentimental Items

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How To Display and Store Sentimental Items

There comes a time in each of our lives where we wake up and realize that our homes are full of stuff…unwanted items that have been passed down to us, given as gifts, once had sentimental value but no longer do. These items accumulate over time, usually because we are just too busy to set aside the time to go through the endless boxes to see what we’ve been saving all these years.

When you’re ready to declutter the items from the basement, garage, back of your closet and under your bed, no doubt you will enjoy the walk down memory lane for many items and wonder why you’ve been saving others. Then you’ll be ready to do the hard work. Decide what to save and what to let go of.

For the items that you want to save, it’s important to store and display them in a safe manner so they can be passed down to the next generation. Following is a list of our favorite items:

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One Client’s Journey to a Functional Garage

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One Client’s Journey to a Functional Garage

From the time John and Jane* bought their suburban Boston home over 25 years ago, they never parked in their detached one-car garage. The garage stored toys for their kids, items for their business, tools and supplies for their lawn and gardens, and extra supplies for their home. So begins the story of why they hired Living. Simplified. to come in and help clear out their 142-year-old garage.

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How to Start Organizing Your Garage

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How to Start Organizing Your Garage

When it comes to organizing our home, the area that is most often overlooked is the garage. If we’re being honest, it’s probably where all our junk goes after we complete a decluttering project inside our home. Did you know that an estimated 25% of homeowners do not store their cars in their garage? What?!?! Yes, it’s true. People have so much stuff that they often can’t park their cars in their garage! And what’s more, the garage often gets so full of items that the homeowners can’t even find (or remember!) what they have saved.

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