Well I am absolutely shattered.
I started the living room at lunchtime and I am still not finished.....in my defense it has had a proper gutting - everything out and I have still managed to
- do the school run in this time
- Deliver nephew to my mother in law
- Put an old TV out for collection
- Do the intended skip run to rid my greenhouse of old wood
- Do a food shop online and get it ordered
.......I will sleep well tonight.
Shamefully here is the before pictures......I had already pulled the sofa out at this point.
This is the second sofa and behind the camera
and the shoe crevasse - its not a show rack but seems to be the shoe dumping ground! Youd think we had about 20 people living in our house - no there is 4! and behind this sofa is where my hubby stores his motorbike stuff that he wears daily for work.
Anyway 2 bags of rubbish out, various bits of paperwork rechecked and binned/re-homed, numerous hair bobbles, scrunchies, bands moved to little Holly's bedroom, DVDs checked and re-homed to Holly's bookcase, various dog items now stored, and toys neatened and moved
This is the after pictures
(note the sewing box next to my seat
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All the toys are now in the one box with a strict one in , one out rule.
I managed to get this far, until I had to leave the room to do the online shopping and get it ordered......tumbleweeds in the fridge is not a good look..........and came back to this.........
My helpful husband and mutts (there is 2 there is you look closely!) which now means I will have to leave cleaning this side of the room until tomorrow or until tonight once the kids are in bed and hubby is probably on the computer......I am not in work till 2.15 tomorrow afternoon so I think I might actually just have a rest or just slowly finish the living room off...........
Next thing to get done though is tonight I plan on stripping the covers off the sofas and washing them overnight so I can hang them out to dry tomorrow morning when the weather is meant to be nice because they are absolutely minging.
The good thing is this is shaming me into getting it all done and keeping it clean! My bathroom is still nice and tidy, and so is the back porch bar a few things I moved there that are going in the shed from the living room