Organize Your Living Room – Family Room
The living room, or family room, gathers clutter by the hour. How do you battle the magazines, newspapers, and toys that find their way into the Living Room?

Cleaning

How to Clean Your Living and Dining Rooms
Compared to cleaning your kitchen or bathroom, cleaning the living room and dining room in your home is a piece of cake!

Compared to cleaning your kitchen or bathroom, cleaning the living room and dining room in your home is a piece of cake! You are basically just dusting and vacuuming. Neither of which are all that complex, but they do involve more than simply watching the dust blow around and then pushing your vacuum around the room.

Before you begin to actually clean the living and dining rooms, take a walk around them. Pick up all items that do not belong in the room and and return them to where they do. It’s like starting with a blank canvas.

As with cleaning any room in your home, you want to start at the top and work your way down – bring the dirt to the ground. Catchy little slogan, eh? If you do not own an extendable duster, go out and buy one – NOW. They are invaluable to cleaning and so much safer than wobbling around, tippie-toed on a step ladder. [Read more...]

The living room, or family room, gathers clutter by the hour. How do you battle the magazines, newspapers, and toys that find their way into the Living Room?

Organizing Your Home: The Family Room/Living Room

Some homes have a “great room” and no living room, others have a “family room” and a living room. No matter what you call it or how many of these rooms you have, organization is necessary to make it a welcoming haven for your family.

Walk in to this room as a visitor would. Notice the small details that you’ve overlooked in daily living. Do you see clutter? Your guests do, too. To make this room inviting, we’re going to reduce the number of *things* in this room and make it more homey. [Read more...]