Why do New Years Resolutions have to be just for you? Your home is as vital to your life as your diet, exercise regime or love life! So here are four resolutions you should commit to in order to make your home that much sweeter.
Pick a Room to Improve
Yes, that is singular on purpose. New Years Resolutions have a tendency to peter out because they are often times too grand in scope. “I want a new body!”, “I want to master Italian cooking”, etc. Things would likely end up being cast aside come February if you endeavoured to redecorate your whole house, so scale down a bit.
Pick one room in the house you want to refresh, and give yourself a year to do it. If you get it all done in the first week of January, you now have 51 weeks to enjoy it before taking down the next room! If not, you can do it in small increments, which is usually the best way to accomplish tasks such as this.
Cleaning rota
You are forever moaning at your family to keep the house tidy, but it seems futile. You may end up doing it yourself. So why not introduce a system that not only gives the cleaning duties a structure, but also some variety? Pick out the jobs that need doing on a weekly basis, and make a system that distributes them.
Furthermore, if there are enough people, or a small number of jobs, why not rota in a week “off”? That way, people won’t feel like they are working all the time, and can look forward to a week off from the jobs. This may also mean your first week off from cleaning in a very long time!
Get gardening
While the interior can be done in small increments, improving the garden may require a little more work. You have two choices ahead of you. The first option is to designate a few weeks squarely for garden work, where either you, your entire family, or a professional get their green fingers going. If you haven’t got the time, one weekend in the summer can be enough to mow the lawn, take out a few plants that are dead, and replace them with new ones.
There is no point doing this until it’s warm, so why not do it when you would normally be sunbathing? One hour of gardening for one hour of lazing around on the grass seems like a fair deal.
“Lose weight”
Not that kind of losing weight! Think of this resolution as “Spring Cleaning”, but spread over 12 months. Again pick one room a month in the first half of the year, and throw out everything you don’t need. Be ruthless! This may require some organisation of the bigger rooms like the bathroom. but it will be worth come the 2nd half of the year.
That’s when the fun starts. For your 6 months of stringent cleaning, you now get 6 months of buying new things! Again, go with one room a month, and set reasonable budgets, but be a little self-indulgent! Repeating this process each year will leave you with whole new rooms within a couple of years!
