Need to pack up most of my bedroom while building work happens - please help me decide what I need to keep out!

[Lexilicious]

We are having our large bedroom split into two soon and it will be completely unusable for a while, and not fully useful until we have got fitted wardrobes in which with our track record will possibly take a while. The living room is also being done in the same project and the only other downstairs room is the kitchen/dining/playroom, which is now full to bursting with the couple of pieces of living room furniture which we have.

While the door is knocked through for the new bedroom, a partition wall is put in, and the electrics, plastering and radiator plumbing are done, we are going to sleep in the back bedroom which we will have to share with DS. He is just small enough to sleep on his cot mattress on the floor, we will be on a futon, and the available furniture consists of two single wardrobes, an overhead storage cupboard, and a sort of open sided shelf set. Probably 8 cubic feet. I am getting rid of our KS bed, a dressing table and bedside tables, and ripping out the knackered fitted wardrobes.

So, in our shared room:

DH will need a suit, a week's shirts, a few casual clothes, about a cubic-foot shelf's worth of undercrackers, and shoes/bags/coats will be downstairs.

DS has a reasonably small amount of clothing but a vast amount of storybooks which will have to be edited down and better stored - probably in one of the cubic shelves.

In theory I need only the same as DH but in practice I can't seem to circulate as small a 'capsule' as he does. Has anybody got something like a holiday packing list but for a month of normal life? When the weather is going up and down like knickers?

Also, what do I do with the rest? Into the loft I guess but I have already filled all our suitcases and I can only think of cardboard boxes and carrier bags for the rest - and I am a bit worried about moths/squirrels/having to wash and iron the lot when it comes back down.

We could possibly put boxed up clothes into the living room before the downstairs part of the job is started, but there will be huge amounts of dust and I want to hermetically seal as much as I can.

This is going to be impossible, isn't it. Aaaargh.

those translucent plastic storage boxes with lids will be useful. You can see what's inside them and they stack. Put a label inside the end of each anyway. Put a moth killer inside each to be on the safe side. You can tape round the lid to keep builders dust out (it gets everywhere).

you can wear track suits or similar around the house, you'll need two each. Have a box of biscuits and a kettle in the bedroom, also a radio and/or TV. You can get headphones.

Thanks Pigletjohn, have headphones for my iPad so that's a start. But once DS Is down to bed we won't be in there, we will need to be in the diner/ playroom in the evenings. We haven't had the use of the living room really for the past year so it's not a big deal. And we can sit outside too if it's not lashing down.

I have some spare plastic storage boxes, great idea. Not see through but i will fill those up and write on a label what they are, and then se how many more I need to get. Where is best to buy more? Do Costco do things like that for a good price?

Will it be practical or indeed at all effective to tape up the door of the in-use bedroom during the day when the builders are in? There isn't much more demolition to happen really, it's mostly construction.

I get mine at Wilkinsons, unless Tesco has a special offer.