Homes & Gardens Featured Article

Punteha at Homes & Gardens interviewed Kevin (current client) and me for this article about us decluttering his parents’ home. The attached article has the affiliated links removed and I added before and after photos of the house.

*Mark Your Calendar: Kevin and I are going Live on Facebook ABCs Community Group on Thursday, July 24 at 9:00am from inside his transformed home!  
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Homeowners in their 80s have had a glorious lifetime to accumulate a lot of belongings, and ruthlessly decluttering can be very challenging. The home of Kevin’s parents, high school sweethearts, Shirley and Bill, was no exception.

Together for 65 years, and in their Houston, Texas house for over four decades, a difficult and shared decline with dementia led to the clutter in their home not only spiraling out of control, but becoming a daily risk to their well-being.

That’s why Kevin took early retirement and left his life in California, moving home to support his parents and painstakingly working on decluttering the whole house. Here are some of the crucial lessons learned along the way.

Why decluttering in your 80s can be so challenging…continue reading to find out what areas we struggled and how organizing for a year can transform a home…and the people inside the home!