Small change in the eat-in-kitchen (Decluttering)

Today I just have a simple change or actually a decluttering project to share with you.  It is one of the things that I mentioned I wanted to change in my Home Tour post of my eat in kitchen. 

You may have even noticed the change in my Valentine Day tablescape post.  A few of you caught on and mentioned it in the comments.

Any one guess before you read on??

The cookbook stand in the corner – here it is from my eat in kitchen home tour post.  I told you I wanted to remove it.  I didn’t even use 1/2 of the cookbooks on it (but I hated to get rid of them) and it just was cluttery and rickety looking to me.  I honestly don’t know why I haven’t done something about it before.  One of the helpful things for ME about doing a tour through my home and showing you is I can really look at the room in pictures and see things that I might not have seen before or seen otherwise that I want to change.  AND some of you have had some more great suggestions too!

There it was!  And now it is gone.  Isn’t that a world of difference??  And  SOOO much better?

Funny story, actually.  About 2 days after I posted my eat in kitchen post, a little helper actually knocked the whole shelf, books, and all in the floor.   Since I didn’t want it there anyways, it was the PERFECT time to add the shelf to the growing yard sale pile in the garage and sort through the cookbooks.

A big stack joined the yard sale pile in the garage, the most frequently used ones went in the cabinet above the microwave for easy access,

loose recipes got tossed or added to my family recipe binder,

and the rest got put in the office to see if I use them again.  If not, they will get added to the yard sale pile at a later date.

LOVING the clean, open space now!

Here’s the before/after one more time.

A FREE update and I get to cross something off my to-do list for the kitchen!   Check out the other things I plan to change in this post.

I have heard people say, take everything out of the room, then only put back one thing at a time and STOP when you like it.  You will probably end up with several things not put back into the room and the room will look much better and less cluttered.

Been doing any spring cleaning or decluttering?  I have been working on some other projects too that I may share later.