all things cleaning
This past week we completed the room refresh of the office. Now it’s time to move on to the pontentially hardest working room of the house – the kitchen!! With that, we’ll just jump right into it! The Kitchen Clear off the kitchen table and kitchen island if you have one. Empty out all the cabinets, drawers, and countertops. Set…
This week got a little hectic and I am a little late in writing this week’s blog post! While a little late, I hope you were able to spend a little more time and get caught up on the Room Refresh challenge! So far we have organized our laundry rooms, mudrooms, and dropzones, and I have before and after pictures…
Welcome to week 3 of the Ultimate Roof Refresh! Last week we organized our laundry room. This week we are tackling the mudroom and/or drop zone(s)! Drop zones consist of any areas in your home where you walk through the door and drop your stuff – purse, mail, workout equipment, etc. Your drop zone may be in the mudroom, but…
I hope you were able to start the year off on the right foot! If you missed last week’s post you can read that here. You’ll find a few tips to help you reduce your stress on challenge days. A quick recap is that I’ll be hosting the ultimate purge, clean, and organizing challenge I have been able to think…
Welcome to week 1 of the Ultimate Room Refresh! This is going to be the ultimate purge, cleaning, and organizing challenge! For the past couple of years I have wanted to have a cleaning challenge, but it just felt very overwhelming to put together. However, with the pandemic I’ve been obsessed with creating systems to keep my home a sanctuary.…
This post may contain affiliate links. For more information see disclosures. Many of the DIY tutorials I’ve found on how to wash patio cushions involved Borax and dish soap. By all means if you have Borax, those tutorials might work for you. However, I did not have Borax, and I was either having trouble finding it or not looking in…
This week’s post is a guest post by Charlotte Meier. Charlotte has been passionate about safety her whole life. Ever since she became a homeowner, she began directing that passion towards home safety and created her website, homesafetyhub.org. Be sure to check out Charlotte’s website and I hope you enjoy this week’s post! Families all over the country are quarantining,…
I’m here to spread some tough love on you this week! If your life is cluttered, whether that be physically or emotionally, you lack clarity in your life. Plain and simple. Physical clutter can be detrimental to your health and wellbeing. It can increase stress levels, decrease your productivity, encourage bad spending habits, and can keep you in debt. If…
A couple weeks ago I posted an article titled “Why You Don’t Need to Buy Storage Containers to Keep You Organized.” You can go read the article if you missed it, but I talked about how fancy storage containers don’t keep you organized. You need to actually declutter your possessions before trying to organize them. However, I might have lied…
Just last week the hubs and I were on vacation. We had a ton of stuff on our “to-do” list to get done that we had been putting off or were waiting for nice weather to accomplish. Last week I shared with you our bathroom refresh. That just happened to be only one of our many projects to complete for…
