Getting the House Cleaned Up...

So one day last week I didn't go to work. I stayed home and while at home I ended up cleaning up the office in the basement quite a bit. I got all of the trash out of there and got a lot of the items stored away in the closet and such. I made it so that you can easily see the floor in that room, which is saying something, because for the last 18 months or so it seems you haven't been able to see the floor in that room at all...let alone the other furniture and such in that room. The goal was to have that room cleaned up enough that we could move other random stuff into it while we cleaned up the big bedroom in the house. Eventually, we will set up the air hockey table and put the arcade machine in that room, along with a TV and maybe the stereo. It will be like a small game and entertainment room for us.

Then on the days off last week, I tackled getting the basement even more organized. I bought another DVD shelf and got all of the DVDs onto the two large shelves...except the workout DVDs which are on their own shelf. I then used one of the empty shelves to put all of the LEGO sets on. I also moved the hope chest that was down there into our bedroom. Sometime soon we will be working on getting the table and chairs out of that basement and somehwere else, then the dog crates will be moved and we'll have plenty of room for the exercise bike when it gets here.

Well, the other day Cathy wasn't feeling very well so she didn't go to work. When I got home from work, I was pretty amazed. She had ran to the store and ended up picking up some new window coverings. She had put those up in the kitchen, the dining room, and the living room. They look infinitely better than the ones that were in there...but even more impressive than that was that she actually cleaned up the big bedroom. I had figured the big bedroom was going to be an almost impossible project, but she had gotten it cleaned almost entirely. The only things left in there are two boxes of things that are mine and a bed full of stuffed animals. The animals will probably be bagged up and donated to a charity locally. They are all animals that we won in the Grab a Claw game at work. The big bedroom is now clean enough that I feel that it can be painted...and once it's painted, we can start moving our stuff into there and actually have the Master Bedroom in the house be our room!!!! Then we can work on decorating the guest bedroom, and figuring out what we want to do with Cathy's old bedroom.

The house has really gotten clean in the last few weeks, and it's nice because it feels like we are finally starting to do some things to make it "ours." I think that maybe on Wednesday we'll go and pick out some paint for that big bedroom, so that maybe next week we can get that taken care of!!!!