Blessings From Home

Nesting Mission-Day 5 & 6-Laundry room and Bathroom-Updated

My time on the computer is always very limited on the weekends, as this is the main place my hubby spends on his days off, but I just wanted to update on my nesting mission. I have still been working diligently cleaning from room to room, and maintaining the rest of the rooms that have already been cleaned. This weekend, I have worked on the laundry room, and today is the bathroom and hallway. I have not been remembering to take before pictures, but first thing tomorrow I will update this post with after pictures. The laundry room, although not perfect, is much nicer than it was and I was able to make much more room in there. The reason why I didn't get the whole room done exactly as I wanted was that most everything in there is hubby's tools and misc. things that don't have any other home. So I organized everything to the best of my ability, and put it all out of the way until spring, when everything can be sorted through and yard saled or gotten rid of.

Maintaining the other clean rooms has gotten increasingly easier as it becomes a habit for each of us. As of right now, I have only 3 rooms left to clean...the girl's bedroom, the boy's bedroom, and the playroom. The playroom will probably be the most difficult because it seems to be a catchall for everything, as well as all my crafting supplies. So I am anticipating that it will take me a few days to get it done, but I will at least get a start on it. I am planning on cleaning the girl's room Monday, the boy's room Tuesday, and will work on the playroom on Wednesday. I will do only what I can in the playroom, and at least straighten it up a bit, and then if baby hasn't made his arrival yet, will relax for the holiday, and spend the weekend getting our Christmas decorations out. Have a blessed weekend!

***Weekend Update***

Here's my laundry room. It's small and still has a lot of stuff that needs going through. I'm standing by the door that leads into the backyard. There's another door behind the drying rack that leads to the front, but we don't ever use it. Trust me, this room has made a drastic improvement. There was barely a path to get through the room. To the near left is my deep freeze, and the two containers on top of the dryer are my homemade laundry soaps, one for baby, and one for the rest of us. On the shelf to the right I have 3 baskets, one for dirty towels, one for baby clothes, and one for clothes to be put away. Underneath the shelf is a laundry sorter, where I keep darks, lights, and whites sorted.

Here's our main bathroom. It's still in the middle of a remodel, but we aren't really working on it right now. The walls need to be fixed and the baseboards replaced, but it still looks nice enough and is quite functional. The toilet and pedestal sink are both brand new, as is the floor. There's a medicine cabinet behind the door on the right, and a floor to ceiling cabinet with lots of storage on the left. I got it all cleaned out and straightened.

And here's the hallway, with our cedar cabinet. From where I'm standing at...behind me is the bathroom you just saw, to the right leads into the family room, and to the left is the door to the girl's room. Ahead...the door to the left is the boy's room, straight ahead is the door to the playroom, the first door on the right is a closet, and then past that is the doorway leading into the formal living/dining room. We had quite a mess in the hallway, but I've got it all straightened and put away.

Although I am going through getting every room straightened and organized as much as I can, after the holidays I am going to start working through my flylady zones, working through and doing some more serious decluttering and getting rid of some of this junk that I don't know what to do with, and spending more time in each area. For now it's on to day 7 of my nesting mission....

sara