{"id":22,"date":"2026-07-20T18:44:28","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T22:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/home-living\/2026\/07\/20\/moving-back-in-without-losing-a-week\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T18:44:28","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T22:23:30","slug":"moving-back-in-without-losing-a-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/home-living\/2026\/07\/20\/moving-back-in-without-losing-a-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Moving Back In Without Losing A Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead wp-block-paragraph\">The last two days of a project decide how the whole thing is remembered. They are worth planning as carefully as the first two.<\/p><h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Label By Room, Not By Box<\/h3><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Every crate carries the room it is going back into and nothing else. Unpacking then happens in one room at a time and the house is usable each evening instead of being a corridor of half-empty boxes for a fortnight.<\/p><h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Dress Before You Unpack<\/h3><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rugs, curtains, lighting and art first, while the floor is still clear. A room that is dressed before the boxes arrive tells you where everything belongs, and the unpacking takes half as long.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last two days of a project decide how the whole thing is remembered. They are worth planning as carefully as the first two.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":70,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[16,13,14],"class_list":["post-22","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-studio-notes","tag-moving","tag-process","tag-studio-notes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/home-living\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/home-living\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/home-living\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/home-living\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/home-living\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/home-living\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/home-living\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/home-living\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/home-living\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/home-living\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}