Before and After Pics from Today

I made sure to get a little done today and I have before and after pics to prove it.  The place that I’ve been wanting to work on is the upstairs hallway.  I don’t go up there very often so I tend to procrastinate on it.  Today I finally worked on it.  The same ugly 50 year old carpet that was in my living room is in the hallway so there’s only so much that I can do.  No matter how clean it is, it will still look bad but at least the kids will be able to walk through. I should look around and see if I can find something decorative to put on that cabinet but for now, I’m going to leave it cleared off.

Here’s the After Picture:

The Before Picture:

The picture below is what it looked like when I started.  There was a lot of junk that I had thrown out there when I was switching rooms around.  There’s a big bag of garbage that hadn’t made it’s way downstairs yet.  I know that it looks really bad but it took me less than an hour to get it all cleaned up and vacuumed.  That’s phenomenal because it used to take me hours to clean up that hallway and now it’s done in a flash! That’s what happens when you get rid of lots of stuff!! It’s not overwhelming anymore!  I knew it wouldn’t take me long once I got started and I was right.

The other half of the hallway:

This is the top of the stairway.  I’ve been wanting to move that cabinet into the new storage room and I finally did that today too.  The litter box was next to the cabinet.  Once the cabinet was gone, I moved the litter box over so now there’s more room to get past it.  All the cat supplies are nicely in the corner now. It’s so nice to have this all done and it was all done before 1:00 p.m.

Since there was still enough of the day left after I finished, we were able to spend some time out by the horses.  It was a very nice day with plenty of sunshine.