The KonMarie method

silvasava

greenbee wrote: »

My bathroom is being redone over the next few weeks. And the ensuite. I've decided on the shower, bath, loo, basin, taps etc for the main bathroom, and the replacement taps, basin and loo for the ensuite. But I still have to pick tiles (floor and wall) and paint for both...

Greenbee - unless you love cleaning DON'T get black tiles! They look fab but they're a bu**er to keep it looking like that. DS2 tiled our main bathroom floor some years ago with white gloss tiles that have a grey grain running through them - wish I'd had them as they always look clean & shiny

Managed to Kondo twodrawers of komono out of my'office' aka small spare bedroom. I managed to freegle some redundant cables and a bag of rubbish & my ink refills are now stored nicely in the stir fry veg container. I need to do the other two drawers that hold stationery and cards as I know there's cards there that I've had years 'just in case' - if the weather is carp tomorrow that what I'll do

greenbee

silvasava wrote: »

Greenbee - unless you love cleaning DON'T get black tiles! They look fab but they're a bu**er to keep it looking like that. DS2 tiled our main bathroom floor some years ago with white gloss tiles that have a grey grain running through them - wish I'd had them as they always look clean & shiny

Thanks silvasava. I hate cleaning. Dirt colour would probably be best :cool: I'm leaning towards white/neutral in the main bathroom with green paintwork (it faces east). If I have neutral tiles I can change the colour easily - and the whole look in there is very contemporary. For the ensuite, which faces south, I'm considering dark blue (paint left over from the cloakroom) for the panelling (to cover up the mess left by removing the tiles) and pale grey for the walls. I know south-facing rooms should apparently use warm colours, but I don't want a pink bathroom... And I want a slightly old-fashioned indulgent feel.

I've hoovered the garage today (getting it ready for bathroom deliveries... I've been storing bark that came off the logs in there and gradually burning it on the fire on cool nights rather than using logs, so it was filthy) and as a result of that and a quick tidy of annoying stuff in the study have a bootful of stuff to deliver to the CS tomorrow. Just need to find my donor number...

I really do wish all the people who 'help' with DIY etc would put stuff away though. There's stuff all over the place in the garage, and I'm pretty sure there are a few things missing. Like my hammer.

If the weather is OK over the weekend I'm planning on emptying a lot of stuff onto the drive and sorting out some of the chaos. In the meantime, I'm relocating the contents of the bathroom in preparation for it being stripped out.

silvasava

Both our bathrooms are mainly white so I can ring the colour changes with the towels and maybe a small ornament or decoration. Your schemes sound great Greenbee!
I also find it really irritating when DIYers don't clear up after themselves ( no DH isn't a culprit lol)

iQueen

Didn't do much at all today, apart from shopping for food, banking and a bit of cleaning. Oddly, I felt very tired today, but I'm ready for a 'kondo weekend'.

Forgot to mention that I also have in the bathroom, a spare tube of toothpaste and spare brush-heads in the cabinet, my white towelling robe on the back of the door, and my cork bath mat... lovely and warm when I step from the bath!

I've realised why I'm still having problems with 'maybe' clothes. They are better quality than anything I could afford to replace them with! Today's budget buys are rubbish!

Earlier this year, I bought 2 new pairs of jeans to replace the 3 (10 years-old and still going strong, FAR too big now,) that were kondoed. The new ones, same make, are thin compared with the old ones, which cost £7 each in a sale. The new ones, also in a sale, cost £18 each! :eek:

One of the things that I shall be doing, post-kondo, (and I'm already itching to get back to it!) is designing and making my own clothes. That will fill any gaps. Like home-cooking, I shall use the best ingredients!

I've decided to go back to training with weights, to tone up my nearly 70 year-old muscles! I hate exercise, but I really loved using weights,15 years ago, at the gym. When I mentioned it at the weekend, my daughter's OH burst out laughing! Ah, but he doesn't know that I know my stuff! I shall start gently. Perhaps he had visions of my training for 'Miss Ancient Universe'! :rotfl:

OOO! I might have to up my carbs a bit, with CAKE! :j

Igamogam

Another trip to the CS today and to recycle centre - left a bag of beyond help clothes in the textile skip, couple of ancient missing keys cracked screen mobile phones, some laser jet ink cartridges and some garden waste I couldn't get into the green waste bin or our compost bins. Have managed to pass on a bird feeder ( we have lots of others), hanging basket ( empty) and half a dozen pairs of and 3D glasses (for watching films) using fr**gle:cool:

Also kondoed a mole - the skin variety not the underground mammal. Nothing sinister but I kept catching it so GP, who does minor surgery whipped it off. Didn't feel a thing. It will be sent off for checking but GP confident all OK. Got seven stitches though and it will eave a scar - not in place that is visible unless I wore a bikini and my bikini days are well and truly kondoed:eek::rotfl:

Cleared out under the kitchen sink ...AGAIN. Nothing in there with use by dates on - I checked everything. The outdoor gear weather proofing stuff has gone into the shed in a basket that I found in the greenhouse:) And I used up the WM cleaning product I bought on a whim because it was on offer ( dont do that any more )

Not sure if its the KM magic woo thing, but today I also cleaned, inside and out, all the downstairs windows...........all 12 of them! As we live in a long single storey cottage with a double storey extension on the back, most of our windows are down stairs:D Upstairs is all in the roof with mainly Vel*x windows. We only have 4 regular windows upstairs and OH can do the outside of those;) Cant remember the last time the windows were cleaned on the outside.

Right off to bed - I feel another kondo day tomorrow,errum later today:o,is called for and some cleaning as friends around later too:T

supersaver1000

iQueen wrote: »

Didn't do much at all today, apart from shopping for food, banking and a bit of cleaning. Oddly, I felt very tired today, but I'm ready for a 'kondo weekend'.

Forgot to mention that I also have in the bathroom, a spare tube of toothpaste and spare brush-heads in the cabinet, my white towelling robe on the back of the door, and my cork bath mat... lovely and warm when I step from the bath!

I've realised why I'm still having problems with 'maybe' clothes. They are better quality than anything I could afford to replace them with! Today's budget buys are rubbish!

Earlier this year, I bought 2 new pairs of jeans to replace the 3 (10 years-old and still going strong, FAR too big now,) that were kondoed. The new ones, same make, are thin compared with the old ones, which cost £7 each in a sale. The new ones, also in a sale, cost £18 each! :eek:

One of the things that I shall be doing, post-kondo, (and I'm already itching to get back to it!) is designing and making my own clothes. That will fill any gaps. Like home-cooking, I shall use the best ingredients!

I've decided to go back to training with weights, to tone up my nearly 70 year-old muscles! I hate exercise, but I really loved using weights,15 years ago, at the gym. When I mentioned it at the weekend, my daughter's OH burst out laughing! Ah, but he doesn't know that I know my stuff! I shall start gently. Perhaps he had visions of my training for 'Miss Ancient Universe'! :rotfl:

OOO! I might have to up my carbs a bit, with CAKE! :j

I've been strangely tired too iQueen, fell asleep before bake-off ended the other night :eek: maybe due to my new job but maybe the weather?

I loved your description of the cork mat, may get one as I hate my forever damp ones.

And home made clothes, I'm envious. I'm getting everything kondoed and in place so that I can spend free time on sewing clothes. Sadly I'm rubbish at the moment but I'm giving sewing a try.

And weights are great for strengthening bones to help stave off osteoporosis. Plus I have seen photos of mature body builders and they look great. You've motivated me to think about some home exercises as I used to do a routine at home.

Thanks for a lovely post

GreyQueen

Morning all.

For anyone thinking of refrubishments and wanting to reduce/ eliminate some ongoing chores, this is a very useful book which may be in your library system:

Make Your House Do the Housework by Don Aslett and Laura Aslett Simons.

Don is the decluttering and cleaning guru and Laura is his designer daughter. It's very very interesting. Many things aren't applicable to me as I rent a tiny flat but, for homeowners, there is much of interest.

DA wrote about buildiing a home in Hawaii, for use by the extended family inc a gaggle of grandchildren. They matched the colour of the tiled floors to the reddish earth which predominated there, so the tracked-in dirt wouldn't be obvious. So sensible. And I love the description of every piece of furniture as 'four (feet) on the floor' - i.e an obstacle to easy cleaning. Makes you feel differently about occasional tables, lol.

One thing which makes my life easier is that I don't have carpets. I have a couple of rugs in my sitting-room, and a runner-type rug serving as a doormat, but the rest is tiles. Which mean easy clean up. I talk to people in my job who are in real pickles because of certain flooring choices such as carpeted bathrooms (all bathrooms have leaks, eventually) and laminate floor. Laminate doesn't stand up to a soaking very well.

Am waiting to see what the weather will do as it's not looking promising, so may be doing gardening up the allotment or stuff at home. Going to do the chore of printing out a big project and then see about getting the copyshop to bind it.

OK, time for a cuppa and to see what the wicked of the world are up to.

mavvymoo

Morning all
Well iTwin I 100% agree on the jeans.When I went on my epic shopping trip.I must have tried on about 20 pairs :mad: They were all awful thin,twisted seams, just plain expensive rubbish :mad: All the makes that I had had before which were good quality but had seen better days needed to be replaced. In the end I had to bite the bullet and buy L*vis not cheap but really nice quality and fit perfectly.

I even had a look at the Victoria B*acham range at a price of £295 a pair :eek: Just to see what the quality was like. and too be honest they were thin and to me looked as if they would go baggy as they had so much stretch in them. Who would pay that sort of price for a pair of those I would never know

I am replacing gaps in my wardrobe with good well made items from the chazzers as I couldnt afford to pay full price for them.But as I said before I have booked on a machine sewing course that starts in sept so I am also going to have a go at making (easy) things when I have been on that :rotfl:Or to be able to alter things that I have already got would be a great bonus


My bathroom also has very shiny greyish big tiles on the floor which show every drip of water. I polish mine with glass cleaner once I have cleaned them :rotfl:Its the only way they look nice to me and they dont go too slippy either so I will carry on with it

I really have nothing out on show apart from a china duck on each window sill which have a long story attached to them and I love them and they bring me joy They are the only thing on any window sill in my whole house as I hate anything on there really.

on the sink handwash toothbrushes and paste in a stainless steel mug thing.and nothing else :rotfl: I do have a couple of drawers in there where spare towels and shampoo etc are kept.DH has his own drawer in there for his carp. and I have one for mine I do really like my bathroom it was done a couple of years ago and my idea was a spa based bathroom clean lines no clutter and very calming which it is

Today I have planned to get all the fete carp out of the house and dumped down the village hall will take a few car loads I think. Deliver a load of fete leaflets to the very upmarket part of the village big drives and huge gates fab gardens so love having a nosey when doing this :rotfl:Shame you never see any off these people at any events but all you can do is keep trying There is one house I love it is a huge Art Deco house and it is stunning and one day while delivering I am hoping to meet the owners and get a look around it You can see from the small bit you can see it is also furnished in all art deco so I bet its stunning inside. So will hope to meet them soon

So I will get joy today just looking and trying to chat to everyone I see


Mav x

silvasava

iqueen - I started going to the gym about 2 years ago for osteopenia in my hips and lower spine (think I'm the same age as you) and I LOVE it. I'm using heavier weight now and my muscle tone has improved tremendously - so much so that a few weeks ago I held on to my boat by the mooring rope until it could be manoevered into place!! Couldn't believe I'd managed it but quite proud that there's life in the old girl yet
Cables being collected today & a bag of redundant sewing stuff going to the local CS. Need to Kondo some dust from upstairs and clean the bathroom floor - sigh.
Have a good day all x

PS I used to buy LTS jeans but the quality is now no better than the ones I can buy in asdar for a quarter of the price and they do long leg lengths.years ago I used to buy men's jeans to get the length as I've got no bum!

GrannyKate

Bathrooms - paid a lot of money several years ago to have both bathrooms updated. Not sure if I would do that now although they do look nice. Have wet room type flooring which was expensive but which has stained around loo (small grandchildren!). Both bathrooms have white fitted cupboards - post kondo they have lots of empty space.
Main bathroom has long narrow black shelf/work surface around sink and above loo. There is a large basket of bath/shower towels on one end and a small plastic basket near sink containing hand wash, soap, nail brush, toothpaste and brush for DH (he uses this room more than ensuite). There is also a small flip top rubbish bin on worksurface, step for little people and scales otherwise everything in cupboards. In cupboards I have medicines, first aid, spare soaps etc, - all severely kondoed now. There are bath toys which have a drawer but are currently arranged on bath side as GD3 stayed last night. There are bath mats and spare hand towels, DH cupboard with shaving etc, sun lotions, some baby accessories etc all out of sight.
The ensuite has very little storage space - under sink cupboard just wide enough to store loo rolls. Wall cupboard with my stuff severely kondoed. Basket of shower towels , small waste bin and plastic basket with my toothbrush, deodorant, hand wash etc are on surface. Some shampoos and shower gel in stick up plastic container in shower.
We have very large windows and whole bungalow is very sunny so all windows have vertical blinds which means nothing on any windowsills.
Paperwork kondoing not going well need to refocus.