{"id":11651,"date":"2016-03-24T05:00:08","date_gmt":"2016-03-24T12:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.homeyohmy.com\/?p=11651"},"modified":"2016-09-08T21:15:29","modified_gmt":"2016-09-09T04:15:29","slug":"bedroom-organization-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homeyohmy.com\/bedroom-organization-progress\/","title":{"rendered":"Bedroom Organization Progress"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"wardrobe<\/p>\n

My biggest excuse for\u00a0anything around the home taking too long to get done is that the task is daunting and I just don’t want to do it. \u00a0Shocker! \u00a0Who wants to build IKEA furniture all day?? \u00a0I don’t.<\/p>\n

Take our bedroom for example. \u00a0It’s been maybe over a year of me\u00a0promising that I’m going to make changes and finally turn\u00a0it into a functional space instead of the storage room it turned into over the years, and\u00a0that was the very problem: there was a lot of STUFF, and it was stuff I wasn’t using or no longer liked. \u00a0The plan to declutter and overhaul the space was so overwhelming that I kept putting it off indefinitely, giving my frequent\u00a0excuse that I don’t have time and that there were other more pressing to-do’s that I needed to finish first.<\/p>\n

This is\u00a0what the plan needed to be: declutter, sell the furniture, get new furniture, build furniture, reorganize, redecorate. \u00a0I frequently thought about my\u00a0ideal\u00a0plan, which was to have\u00a0someone come and take everything away so I could start with a clean slate and get straight to the fun part (decorating), which I\u00a0guess<\/em> was\u00a0possible to do, but the point was this: I needed help and I was never going to finish this\u00a0project\u00a0by myself.<\/p>\n

Help came when\u00a0TaskRabbit<\/a>\u00a0reached out to me to aid\u00a0with any\u00a0Spring cleaning tasks, to see if they could match me with a Tasker to do\u00a0any jobs around the home I had been procrastinating. \u00a0Were they reading my mind?? \u00a0I said heck yes, can someone come and carry new furniture up to my bedroom and build it?! \u00a0I\u00a0scheduled a date to have a Tasker do the job, and that date became my deadline to make some real\u00a0progress on our bedroom.<\/p>\n

\"wardrobe<\/p>\n

Because the built-in closet our bedroom came with is essentially the size of a broom closet, an external wardrobe is necessary for us to have. \u00a0We inherited the one in the “before” shot above from the previous tenant and it always felt like a\u00a0soul-sucking\u00a0black hole in the corner of the room, plus we needed something wider\u00a0that would make better use of the space instead of that storage bench we had that actually couldn’t store much. \u00a0We went with a double wardrobe in white, which our first Tasker Romain<\/a> carried the pieces of from my car up to the bedroom and built with the help of our second Tasker Steve<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"IKEASO much better, right?<\/p>\n

\"IKEAI keep all my tops, bags, sweaters, and hats in here. \u00a0Up at the very top I stored some extra bed linens, which used to live on\u00a0top of our second wardrobe.<\/p>\n

\"dresser<\/p>\n

This was our second wardrobe which, like the first wardrobe, was dark and not making us\u00a0happy, plus it blocked a lot of the light coming in from the window next to it. \u00a0A\u00a0dresser\u00a0made a lot more sense for this area, and yup, my Tasker\u00a0Romain<\/a>\u00a0carried all those pieces up and built it.<\/p>\n

\"white<\/p>\n

I keep my socks, underwear, basic tees, loungewear, and workout gear on my side of the dresser. \u00a0I was nice enough to let my guy have the left side, aw.<\/p>\n

\"IKEAWe still have more to go with nightstands, lamps, a bed frame, art, and rugs on our decisions list, which is yet another promise I’m making on more changes to come, but I’m already so relieved that we’ve started on our path to the much more organized and minimalist bedroom I’ve always wished for.<\/p>\n

\"minimal
\n\"minimalist<\/p>\n

While the Taskers built my furniture, I sat at my desk and worked on the blog. \u00a0Isn’t that amazing? \u00a0What they finished in 6 hours would have taken me 38. \u00a0They freed up my time, which\u00a0gave me so much motivation to continue organizing and decluttering after their job was done. \u00a0This is absolutely the first time in my life where\u00a0there’s extra space around my clothes, I’m serious. \u00a0I’ve never known till now what it’s like to be able to see<\/em> all my clothing. \u00a0I’m super proud of this.<\/p>\n

If you’re looking to make progress on any\u00a0home projects or Spring cleaning chores, TaskRabbit<\/a> now offers\u00a0real-time service (read: tasks scheduled and done immediately<\/em>.) \u00a0We’re all busy and can’t always find the time to do it all on our own, I know, so I really hope this helps you out if it sounds\u00a0right for you. \u00a0Use promo code\u00a0OHMY\u00a0<\/strong>for $20\u00a0off same-day tasks.<\/p>\n

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SOURCES: wardrobe<\/a> | wardrobe handles<\/a> | dresser<\/a> | mirror<\/a> | marble canister<\/a>\u00a0| clock<\/a> | tray<\/a> | copper vase<\/a> | ceramic pillar<\/a> | candle<\/a><\/p>\n

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This post is in partnership with\u00a0TaskRabbit<\/a>. \u00a0All words and opinions are always my own. \u00a0Thank you for supporting brands that help make it possible to bring you new and inspiring ideas!<\/em><\/p>\n

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