A client was helping her parents prepare to sell their family home when she called me to assist her with redesigning her own smaller house and incorporating as many of her mother and father’s mid-century furnishings as possible. We met in the morning and, by dinnertime, we’d successful figured out where almost every piece she liked could be used and enjoyed in her 1920s house.  I gave the woman a plan for redecorating every room and she was thrilled, yet the thought of her childhood home being sold was upsetting her.

In Downsizing Your Home With Style I suggest that readers take a special photo of their home to preserve a memory of the house that is being left behind. Yesterday, I went a step further and recommended that my client take photos of every room in her family’s homestead, as soon as possible, while the decor is still intact, so that she can create a special album to look at whenever she misses her old place. The idea made her happy – she plans to go through the whole house and take lots of digital photos she can download and also email to the rest of her family.

If you are downsizing or moving and are feeling sad about leaving your present home, consider taking photographs of every room, and remember to shoot the small details, too. In the future, you and your children – and grandchildren – will enjoy being able to look at and share your sweet memories.