Martha's Weekly Homekeeping

Today I'm setting up my weekly homekeeping schedule. Because I do not have enough time on any one day to accomplish all the things on the weekly checklist I'm going to spread it out throughout the week.

Sunday

Kitchen 

Monday

Dining Room

Tuesday

Living Room

 Home Office

Wednesday

Library

Entryway and Hallway

Thursday

Bedrooms

Friday

Bathrooms

Saturday

Throughout the House

So, today is Tuesday that means I tackled the Living Room and Home Office. Here is a picture of the before and the after using Martha's advice.


Living Room

 

Before

After

Before

After

Our house is in a bit of a transition. Hopefully, our living room/dining room will look a little more finished soon.

Home Office

Before

After

Before

After

Martha's steps are pretty simple the whole process took me about 45 minutes. I'll follow this for a week going through each day of the week.

Now that it is a new year, A and I will be starting up the home improvement projects again. We started our living room/dining room in the fall and then took a break during the holidays, we are ready to get started. Below is an idea of the design for the rooms, these are not the exact items that we will be using but they are very close. I'll be sharing our progress as it happens.

Living Room by design4less on Polyvore.com

Items in this set:
Chloe Side Table | Pottery Barn, mahogany, $199
Nanti Collection Iron Oxide 14" Wide Ceiling Light | LampsPlus.com, $160
Deco Coffee Table | Overstock.com, $140
Green Table Lamp. 20"H (14"Wx7"Dx9"H shade), $90
Oli - Sunburst Mirror, 80 GBP

Last week I showed you how we started our living room/dining room/hall project by tearing down the wall in between the living room and dining room.

This weekend we continue the project with more demo by taking down the rest of the wallpaper in the living room and most of the wallpaper in the hall. This time it was only myself and Aaron so it was slow going but, we did make considerable progress.


By the end of Saturday we had one wall in the hallway done and started on the finishing the living room, (this weekend we did not start until 11am, we wanted to sleep in a little this weekend). We stopped at around 5pm.

Sunday, we started again, working from 11am to about 3pm. We finished the living room and most of the second wall in the hall. The hall that is adjacent to the living room/dining room had the same wallpaper as the living room, which had been painted over and plastered over in certain parts which made it harder to take down than regular wallpaper.

When we stopped at 3pm, we went on a cleaning rampage because the dust was driving me crazy.

Later this week I'll be able to finally show off the finished bathroom, stay tuned.