3. Are Your Rooms Working For You?
3. Are Your Rooms Working For You? (Image 3 of 8)
The second golden rule for me is to make the spaces efficient. You might have a desk in your bedroom. You might have a wardrobe five times bigger than mine. It’s about your needs. You need to make a space personal, you need to make it work for you. So, how do you make it work? You might need to declutter. You might need to change the layout – move the bed to a different part of the room, so you can get a desk under a window. Or you might need to add space - either by extending out or by taking space off another room. It sounds ridiculously obvious, but if your kitchen isn’t big enough but you have a massive dining room, nick some of the dining room and give it back to the kitchen or smash the wall down and have an open plan kitchen diner. It’s what I did in Brixton – they got everything back, they didn’t lose anything. I didn’t extend, I nicked space and I gave them an extra bedroom. You’ve got to be a space thief. You’ve got to be quite brave.
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