NOTE: SOMEHOW IN THE ORGANIZATION OF OLD POSTS THIS AFTERNOON, THIS ONE RE-PUBLISHED. IF YOU WANT TO SEE HOW AVA’S CLOSET TURNED OUT, GO HERE. 🙂
People that visit our home on a daily or weekly basis would not categorize us as “neat.” We do not have a house keeper, and I often find myself barely getting everyone taught, fed, changed, and myself showered and dressed, let alone spending the day organizing the pantry staples.
I’m totally fine with that. Although I do not stress myself over picking up every toy I see, we are actually pretty clean, and surfaces are squeaky even if there’s a mess on top.
Frustrating, but so it is with small children…this includes Matt.
🙂
HOWEVER, we are not completely unorganized, sloppy, and wading through our mess.
Except today….and probably all of next week. It’s my annual purge all the closets/drawers/cabinets/toys/etc. time of year.
And this year seems to be worse.
Part of it was simply adding more stuff with another child. Our attic renovation seriously amped our garage mess (which now is strikingly close to resembling Sanford and Son’s place). We also may have shoved things into closets when Layla and Kevin came to shoot the house for Cottages and Bungalow’s.
So…it’s time. Time to pull it all out, so it can be put back in the right way.
And while I can’t get the white walls out of my mind (and I think, yay, it’s happening!), I physically need to get more organized, to rid myself of this mess first.
Can’t tell enough from the pictures? Check out the video below.
Just keepin’ it real.
Maybe I’ll come back tomorrow with it all finished.
🙂
I just wrote a post about my mess (mine is from ZERO storage-not lyin-NO closets in my house that are big enough to hang a single hanger in. I blame the old house) but I did it because I have postpartum and I’ve had to let it go in order to stress less. I wrote about how I’ve stopped reading design blogs because they make me feel so inferior & inadequate! I saw you tweet this on Twitter and I had to read. I know you said it was from you re-organizing the closet but it makes me feel SO MUCH better & makes me feel like you are a ‘real’ person LOL ( I know you are real-I met you at Blissdom but y’know what I mean!)
Thank you, thank you, thank you a MILLION times, thank you! 🙂 xo
Loving the real! makes ME feel REAL!
At least we know you’ll have some awesome AFTER shots, hopefully sooner rather then later! (For your sake and sanity of course.) Good luck and Goodwill is going to love you.
Yep. We did our massive Spring Cleaning last Saturday. EVERY inch of our house was cleared, cleaned, and put back together. 23 bags of trash and donations. I estimated it would take our family of 5 at the most 4 hours to do the task. SO WRONG! It took us 7 hours and we had hoped to get to the outside areas like the porches and garage but no way… we were all exhausted just with doing the interior of the house. Now I have determined that our little family cannot be trusted to only purge and thoroughly clean top to bottom once a year, embarrassing as it may be… we will now have a MONTHLY family clean day and surely month to month we can shave some time off that 7 hour clean-o-rama of last Saturday… surely.
Nice! Somehow pink makes the mess more pleasant on the eyes. Not the same lovely effect when it is pr Love the video. Will check back for the “reveal”…
Nice! Somehow pink makes the mess more pleasant on the eyes. Love the video. Will check back for the “reveal”…
I am a BIG believer in throwing things away to keep a clean house. My husband jokes that if you leave anything sitting too long that is not in its place it will end up in the trash or the good will pile. I am amazed even as a “thrower awayer” how much junk we accumulate. A yearly purge sounds like my cup of tea! Or maybe a couple cups for the several hour project!
I absolutely love befores and “keeping it real”on blogs. It’s refreshing to see a truly lived-in home with mess and clutter. Of course, we all pine for the afters, but with children under 5, is that really possible?
Kid-friendly chic, if you will?
We live in a 1100 sq foot 2 bedroom home in Chicago. I’ve been struggling with this since my second child was born.
Looking forward to the after. You’ve inspired me to start that pot of coffee and get to work!
<3