Downsizing Your Home: Five Top Tips
Planning to downsize your home? Whatever the reason for your move, downsizing can be an incredibly tricky process. How do you decide what to keep and what to get rid of? And how small is too small?
As one of the leading removal companies in Sheffield, we’ve helped countless homeowners relocate to smaller properties. Based on our experience, here are five top tips to help you make the move run that little bit more smoothly.
Don’t downsize too far
There is such a thing as ‘too small’ – if you’ve been living in a detached four-bed home, relocating to a two-bedroom flat isn’t likely to work too well. Not only will you have to lose most of your stuff, you’ll have to adjust to a very different lifestyle. If you can’t find a large enough home near to where you live, it may be better to look elsewhere rather than trying to make a super-small home work for you.
Measure up
Once you’ve found an appropriately-sized home, arrange a second viewing before you move in to measure up key areas in each room. This will help you determine how much of your existing furniture will fit in your new place and what will need to be left behind.
Plan ahead
Think of your future needs when you’re clearing out your belongings. Which items are you likely to need more in future, and which will no longer be useful to you? If you don’t need it or it doesn’t mean much to you, you probably shouldn’t keep it.
Be ruthless
Waving goodbye to belongings can be hard, but when you’re downsizing it’s vital that you’re ruthless; only keep your must-have items or you’ll struggle to fit everything in! You never know, it might feel liberating to get rid of some old stuff and make a fresh start.
Use self storage
Storage providers are everywhere now. They provide a secure, affordable space for you to keep surplus items, be it on a temporary or long-term basis. Have a look at our storage Sheffield page to learn more. We also offer furniture removal and furniture storage services which is ideal when you are downsizing your home.
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