Living Clean

Springing Into the Livingroom!

This week has been focusing on the living room in the Spring Into Spring Cleaning Challenge.

I'm finding the same reaction with the living room as I had with the bedroom - awe that there was room for so much improvement.

Not saying that our house is Martha Stewart by a long shot, but the spring cleaning really shows me how much better it can be and how striving to go a little deeper can be quite easy and make a huge difference.

I am finding it to be a perfect companion to the Take 5 daily tasks and to my BOOST Circuit to go a little deeper.

After doing surfaces yesterday, I'm amazed at how much nicer a little polishing and wiping can make things. The irony is that yesterday I got a load of stuff dumped in my living room, so it looks anything but decluttered, but the new shininess is truly shining through.

Can't wait to get it all cleared out this morning and really see the shine!

I took down our curtains, found some mold on a bamboo shade that I had underneath where it had collected some moisture over the winter.

The curtain rod needs fixing, a job I had been putting off. I've washed the bamboo, washed the curtains and looking forward to a better looking curtain rod!

I may even change the curtains completely now that it's spring, will have some fun thinking about it today.

Even with all of this, I still didn't use 5 minutes of day 3, so I will have an extra 5 to work with today, which will be nice because I suspect that cleaning behind my couch is going to take a little extra time, we have a ledge from the stairs behind it and things fall there and somehow don't get picked up!

I am thinking that one of the benefits of the Spring Cleaning challenge is how much I look forward to the progress of each day. 20 minutes is over in a flash and the benefits make my day, especially as they are adding up as the challenge progresses.

If you aren't doing the Spring Into Spring Cleaning Challenge but your house could use a little picker upper, don't wait another day, put a little spring in your step and jump right in with us.