A home is more than just a roof over your head but a great quality roof can really lift the exterior appearance of a property, making it look smart and elegant. But roofs are obviously crucial for other things, besides their aesthetic value. A quality roof helps to maintain the value of your property, keep […]

Why does mess lead to so much stress? Over-stimulation Lots of physical possessions in homes bombard people.  Much like a baby who feels overwhelmed with all the colour and noise of a large array of toys and instead chooses to play with a simple cardboard box, the senses can become overloaded and a longing for simplicity prevails. […]

Whilst, technically, midsummer night has been and gone, we are clearly in the middle of a sizzling summer. It can be tempting to neglect the cleanliness, or at least the tidiness, of our homes due to living outside most of the time. However! it’s essential not to neglect the need for a midsummer clean as […]

There’s always a good reason to improve your home. For most, increasing its value is the core reason for investing their money into it. If you’re a home owner, perhaps you’re thinking of selling your home soon. If you have a buy-to-let, you may want to drive up the rental price. Or maybe you simply […]

At the CORE of the Tidy Mind philosophy is eking every last bit of joy out of what you CHOOSE to have in your life. In the modern world, I truly believe that we have too much. Too much choice. Too much pressure. Too many expectations Too many possessions. We tend to look outwards for […]

Inhale, exhale. Inhale, exhale. Breathing is at the base and core of who we are. There’s nowhere we should be able to breathe more freely, than at home. Our homes are like a magpie nest. We collect and collect all the things that we need, and those things that we think we need. Soon, our […]

You have likely heard the rhyme about the monkeys that jump on the bed. Swap the word monkeys for children, and that’s what you get in a room where siblings share: cute little monkeys that jump on the bed. As with the whole house, of course you’ll want to make their room as calm as you […]

Are you lucky enough to have a loft? If you are and you’re one of the 75% of people who have filled it with ‘stuff’, have you ever asked yourself whether you REALLY need all those things up there? Imagine if you cleared them all out and no longer lived with them, hanging, literally, over […]

It might seem like a strange place to start.  But your bathroom is the perfect room in which to begin your tidying journey. Why? It’s one of the easiest projects to tackle to allow you to build up your skills.  More importantly, the state of your bathroom can be particularly important in terms of your […]

In this guest blog post, LOVESPACE explore the reasons behind the rising tide of ‘stuff’ in our homes and explore the costs of hidden clutter. Are we a nation of secret hoarders? A recent survey of more than 4,000 people by self-storage specialists LOVESPACE, found that the vast majority (95%) of respondents admitted to holding […]