10 Things I hate about you (my house) part III: there's no storage

Oh haven't we all felt this at some point? And I know there's that old saying that it's not about the lack of space but the amount of stuff you are trying to cram into it, but speaking as a someone with hoardish tendencies (History A level crib sheet folder covered in the Corona Fizzical stickers anyone?) there are things I just can't throw away and just need to space to basically archive. So what to do?

home office in an alcove with storage via mark lewis interior design image @arorygardiner

Well I will say I am with Michelle Ogundehin on this, whose new book, Happy Inside,  we reviewed on the podcast last week - notes here) when she says that first you need to get rid of the stuff so you can make way for the things. Stuff is too many mugs and salad servers, things are the memories you have created along the path of your life that tell your story. Of course I don't need my history A level notes but the file is the thing. At boarding school we used to write to companies and ask them fo…