CounterCultural Momma

I know, I'm weird. You are probably looking at this title and saying to yourself...who in their right mind loves to clean their house from top to bottom? (ok, honestly, not me...but, I do love the END RESULT!) I am one of those people that loves to rearrange, it makes me feel like I got a bunch of new stuff (without the guilty over-shop, over-spent feeling).

This is the method to my Spring Cleaning madness - first of all, my house looks like a wreck for a month and then miraculously, it all snaps back together and looks fabulous! (at least to me, it does! :)

1.  I go into the room and purge the junk - store, move to another part of house, consign or give away
2. Go through every drawer and get rid of anything that I don't use/wear/broken. Refold &/or rearrange all the drawers. Clean all the cabinetry inside and out.
3. Wash everything that is washable - walls, drapes, baseboards, etc.
4. Rearrange the room moving in furniture or lamps from other parts of the house. Change around colors such as new rugs or hand-towels.
5. Add items that are needed to make that room or area work. First of all, shop your house! I currently have a pile of decorative stuff that I want OUT of the kitchen...it is all lined up next to my banister. While working on other rooms and I have need of something, I shop the lineup first (and then, maybe take a quick spin around the house)...then, and only then, if nothing is found that is right, do I add it to my list of "to-buy" items.

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