Who Wants A Clean House?
I’ve become addicted lately to the show “Clean House” on the Style network. The title of this post is their slogan. (As far as I can tell!) In case you don’t know what the show is about, a group of organizers and designers go into a family’s home (usually this family’s house is overtaken with their stuff and uber messy) get them to get rid of a ton of junk stuff (not without a fight from the homeowners), sell the junk stuff in a yard sale and use that money to organize and makeover some of the rooms in the house. The results are amazing. And seeing the way some of these people live makes me feel a whole heck of a lot better about my cluttered and messy home! The show has given me a lot of inspiration for some of the work and organizing I want to do in my home. I’m becoming more and more convinced of the need to get rid of stuff. I would like to sell it and get some money for it but if that doesn’t work I’ll just put it on freecycle. I have never had a yard sale and would be interested in having one at some point. With Christmas coming up I really want to get rid of stuff before new stuff comes in. We just repainted our living room and revamped it a bit. We’re not quite done with it but almost. The next room we’re moving on to is our bedroom.
I don’t know about you, but my bedroom is the dumping ground for laundry and sundry things that go upstairs. My room never looks clean,is way cluttered and is definitely not an oasis for me. Which, I think my bedroom should be. We’ve had the same bed spread for 8 years now, plain, off white curtains, the same off white paint on the walls that was there when we moved in and the room is just….blah. And messy. It’s not very big, our bedroom furniture is huge and we have a tiny closet. So, there’s a few things working against us. But I think with a little de-cluttering, some new paint and a new bed/comforter set things will look a lot more relaxing and peaceful in there.
After living in this house for 6 years I’m finally getting around to wanting to do some work on it. It seemed overwhelming a few months back and I just didn’t want to deal with any of it. Now I’m taking it one room at a time. And if it comes down to it, one wall at a time. I’ll be posting some before and after pictures of our bedroom. I’m embarrassed to even post the “before” pictures of our bedroom!
Here are the bed sets that I’m looking at and asking for for Christmas. They are all from Kohl’s and on sale! My room right now is in plum and off white tones. So I wanted to go with something different. My furniture is dark and I like the contrast of dark browns and other shades. I’m leaning towards dark brown/teal, dark brown/blue-ish and dark brown/lavender/lilac
#1
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#3
What do you think? I’m leaning towards #1 and #3 right now with #1 taking lead. I would most likely paint my walls one of the lighter shades that are on the bedspread.
Which one is your favorite?
