It is all very well for a professional designer to tell you to minimise the clutter in your home. However, this generally means having nothing on display, removing all photo frames and putting your clothes away as soon as you take them off and we all know that is never going to happen for any longer than an hour or two.

But to design and create an uncluttered home, you don’tмаси have to do away with your personal belongings, and all of the little parts which make up your everyday life. All you have to do is find uncluttered ways to store and manage your clutter. For example, if you are redecorating you have the perfect opportunity to make space and room to unclutter your clutter.

This can be as simple as designating just one wall in your home to feature online casinophoto frames of family, friends, pets and holidays. You can also manage other displays by installing floor to ceiling shelving units for all of your trinkets, vases and other displays.

Also, as you go around your home updating colors, furniture and styles, add hooks too. Hooks on the backs of bedroom doors can be used for coats, a dirty clothes bag or even a little basket of makeup and brushes hung under a mirror can become a dressing table without the space consumption. Hooks on the back of a laundry door can hold peg baskets, coat hangers or umbrellas, while making a wall display in the hallway of a collection of hooks turns your bags and scarves from clutter into art.

Folk is said to be the hottest style for 2009 so forget about the winter chills and start preparing for summer right now with these fresh, floaty and bright ideas for folk decorating.

Chances are the walls of your home are a neutral white or cream color, and this is the best possible base for folk decorating. This is because folk decorating is all about natural products and traditional designs, which are reinterpreted for modern living. These traditional floral fabrics and handmade items are then the stars of the show against their white backdrop.

And there is no need to clear out your whole home to begin again from scratch with this decorating style either. Natural products are a feature of folk decorating and so your wooden dining table and chairs will be right at home, and you can add a calico table runner or paper doilies to bring it in line with the rest of your folk style.

This could be a handmade woollen throw rug draped over the back of your couch, in rich chocolate, red, pink, blue and green colors to pick up the pastel tones of the floral fabrics you have hung from the windows, and the cottage flowers you are displaying in a simple glass vase.

The feel for folk decorating is very bohemian and relaxed, so don’t stress out about matching your designs and colors. Simply have a look through op shops for colored ceramic plates and bowls, and select brightly colored and patterned throw cushions to liven up your couch.

If you are still living in the family home, you may not technically still be ‘living at home’ you may be renting the house you grew up in because your parents have kept it as an investment property when they upgraded homes, or you may be renting your grandparent’s place for the same reason.

Regardless you want to make the space your own, rather than feeling like you really are still ‘living at home’ in the worse sense of the phrase. Well the simplest start you can make on making your home your own is to move the furniture around. Your home may be furnished with your parent’s furniture, your own pieces or a mix of both, but now is the time to move that buffet which you always told your mother would look better under the window, as well as add in fabrics and colors which suit your personal style.

An almost equally affordable way to change the look of your home is to repaint, and make sure you commit to one color for each room as this will give you a lot more furniture placement and decoration options than designating one ‘feature’ wall. While you may still have to check with your ‘landlords’ with regards to your paint color choices, a dramatic difference can still be achieved with only a subtle color change.

Now you can change the purpose of the rooms. Maybe there is a better view from the study so why not make that your new bedroom? Or perhaps you’d rather turn the formal dining room – who uses that?! – into a home office.