Toolkit for Tough Times: A Sheltering Place

Happy Starts at Home.  These days, it can take a bit of doing to get to happy! For some it is, exactly, how to work with My Small Space and others, My Bedroom is an Office and Other Interior Design Dilemmas.  See what I mean?

It takes work to get to that Clutter-Free Home and to do so you might need to employ a Clutter Remedy. Everyone cannot Be Bold and bodacious enough to just Keep This, Toss That at the drop of a hat.

Help is closer than you think. If you’ve been wondering How to Make a House a Home or want to create a Beautifully Organized, Cozy Minimalist Home with Holistic Spaces, stay tuned. Even if you are renting and on a tight budget, there are options at hand.  You can Rescue, Restore, Redecorate and cozy up your place in fabulous Rental Style.

Ideas for making your space fit your needs without breaking the bank are possible. For starters, some neat ideas can be found in Affordable Interior Design.

From Small Space Living to Shared Living, from a house roomy with rooms to a rooming house, apartment, cottage or shed, every configuration of housing has a singular purpose, shelter. Every person needs a space to shelter in this world. For some, it is far more serious than simply decorating. Too many people are in the need of shelter, of finding shelter, right now.

For some, perhaps a place like Mary’s Place is an option.  Seeking out the Compass Housing Alliance may provide a solution or making a connection with The Block Project might just be the answer to the question of where and how. There are numerous programs and organizations doing their part, but are unable to meet the demand.

People get creative! They convert school buses, hook up trailers and make a mobile home their place to be.

And yet, there are the numbers, rising numbers that we cannot escape witnessing, daily. The numbers of people faced with the dire circumstance of being unhoused and their state of crisis is in full view of all passersby. Undaunted, people take matters into their own hands, across the nation, they organized and created Tent City Urbanism.  Not so long ago, this was an unthinkable housing option but that no longer applies and tent communities continue to proliferate. Still, I can assure you, even in their dire circumstance, someone is paying attention to making their tent a comfortable and pleasant place to be.

A place to call home, a roof over your head, whether it is a tent, a room or a mansion, we need shelter, to be sheltered in this world. For ideas, solutions and inspiration for occupying that necessary space check out the resource list Toolkit for Tough Times:  A Sheltering Place.

     ~ Posted by Chris

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