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I can't say I really enjoy spring cleaning. I don't even do a very good job of it. But this year I am promising myself that we will spring clean!
I began on the basement 'storage', 'family', 'catch-all' room. Do you have one of those? It is that room that everything you don't know where to put goes. It had been being added to for about 2 years. We need it now for another bedroom. I completely cleaned it out, painted, sponged painted in green and blue, hung wallpaper border, put down a carpet and moved dh and me in last week.
This left our old room free. I had PLANNED on just washing the walls and leaving them alone, but the border was ripped in one area, the walls and ceiling was dirty and so I grabbed the bucket of paint and painted it too. Then I sponged it in pink, then peach, put up new border and curtains, laid back in the carpet and moved 3 of the girls in.
Now I have one bedroom left, a large room that will be divided into two spaces for Jon and Mandy. I need to re-cover an antique hospital divider ($2 at a yard sale) for this room. I plan to put a solid background and pockets out of clear plastic, just the size for calendar pictures. Jon has a calendar of horses, Mandy has dog and cat calendars. This should make an interesting divider wall I just painted it two years ago with a mural, green hills on the bottom, blue with clouds on the top. This will stay, but 1/2 the room is losing the flowers, a bug border is going in around the bottom and stars on top. MAYBE. I am still debating the border thing. Jon is getting camping stamps on his side, and puzzle squares for flooring, Mandy is getting dog and cat pictures, and rugs on the floor. I have to clean, set up a captains bed, and the new double bed frame. I will need to hang curtains, make the divider and move in 2 dressers for Mandy. The room is large, it used to be our 'nursery', but the kids have outgrown a nursery, and it will make two nice spaces for these two.
Now, the only problem I see with this cleaning plan is that while I am busy doing all this work, the rest of my house is slowly but surely falling into a state of chaos! So as soon as I finish the bedrooms I will need to clean the rest of the house completely.
I hope to have the house all done by June 2nd, as I am to have a yard sale that day! I would like to haul in about 1/4 of all we own! What doesn't sell, will go to a thrift shop. I am bribing my children. All the money we raise will go towards sending them to camp in June. :D I have already given away a spare set of living room furniture and two applainces will be heading to the dump. I have to have this all done by June 5th as that is garden planting day! YEAH!
Once I am done in the bedrooms I will post pictures. By the way, redecorating doesn't have to be expensive, just be flexible! The paint was left from another project, I added craft paint until I got the right color. Border was $2 a roll on clearamce. The curtains and bedspreads were from thrift stores, and we were given the carpets. My most expensive project will be the divider. That may run me $20. Which is cheaper than a wall! Total for this project under $50.00!
Joyfully, Cheryl |
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