Summer Clean Up Challenge - July

What a job! I never would have thought it would take so long to get our bedroom in order. It is embarrassing to think how bad it had gotten, but it is looking good now. What a difference!

We moved all my scrapbooking stuff out of the alcove and organized it into a closet. We moved Gabe's bed into the alcove. We will put a curtain over the opening, but haven't picked out the hardware for that yet. We moved some other furniture around, washed the curtains and windows, and did a deep clean on the room.

Below you will see the before and after pictures.

Gabe's bed moved and furniture rearranged.


Scrapbooking supplies organized and relocated and Gabe's bed and possessions moved in.


Everything picked up, put away and organized.


A few extra pictures of the finished room. How much more pleasing to my eye!


Thank you, Lisa for posting this challenge. It was just the incentive I needed to tackle this room. Once I posted the pictures of how bad the room was, my pride would not let me quit until the room was clean!

I have a new area all picked out for August!

Summer Clean Up Challenge

Lisa posted a Summer Clean Up Challenge on her blog yesterday. I wanted to do this challenge but was feeling pretty embarrassed about how messy some of the rooms in our house are, but maybe this will spur me on to clean up some of the messier areas.

Anyway, I've chosen our bedroom which is the catch all for the house. Right now we have way more stuff than will fit in the house. We are working on storage areas and also getting rid of stuff.

This will also tie in nicely with Cynthia's Scrapbook Challenge as my scrapbooking area is in our bedroom!

So...here it is in all it's messiness...our bedroom.

Did I mention that Gabe shares our room. That is his bed between the windows!

This is a little alcove that I've been using for my scrapbooking area. It also has my serger there. We are hoping to move things around so Gabe can use this little cubby for his area.