Cynthia Ewer's Blog, page 46
February 8, 2016
New Year Cleaning Challenge: Clever Containment Ideas
Hardworking multi-purpose areas like the family room benefit from a core principle of clutter control: containment.
Heading clutter into containers makes sense in a shared space like the family room. Using open containers to group and store stray objects keeps order in a busy space.
Consider ideas for clutter containment today in the New Year Cleaning Challenge.
February 7, 2016
New Year Cleaning Challenge: It's Family Room Week!
It's a new week in the New Year Cleaning Challenge: the Family Room takes center stage.
For many of us, the family room is the hard-working hub of daily life. It's where we meet, eat, watch television, do homework, read and relax.
To bring order to the family room, we'll declutter, deep-clean and organize it this week in the New Year Cleaning Challenge.
Printables:
Family Room Cleaning Checklist
February 6, 2016
New Year Cleaning Challenge: Dining Room Week Wrap-Up
This week, we headed into the dining room, cleaning and organizing our family's dining space. Time for a weekend wrap-up!
Today, take the last steps to clean, declutter and organize the dining room and dining area.
Tomorrow, we kick off Family Room Week in the New Year Cleaning Challenge, where we'll bring a new order to the household's center of family life.
February 4, 2016
New Year Cleaning Challenge: Declutter Table Linens
Colorful table linens bring a special spark to the dining room ... if you can find them!
What's the state of the table linens stored in your home? Are your favorites hidden beneath a crowd of crumpled interlopers?
Today, it's time to declutter napkins, placements and tablecloths. Keep the best, toss the rest for an organized home!
February 1, 2016
New Year Cleaning Challenge: Identify Activity Centers
What's the state of your dining room?
While some households boast a separate room used only for formal meals, for most of us, the reality is a lot more complicated.
Today in the New Year Cleaning Challenge, we'll consider the activities that take place in the dining room or dining area.
Identifying the room's activity centers is the first step toward an organized dining space!
January 31, 2016
New Year Cleaning Challenge: It's Dining Room Week
It's a new week in the New Year Cleaning Challenge: we're diving into dining areas with Dining Room Week.
The dining room table is a busy center of family life. It's where the family eats--and does a whole lot more. This week, we'll declutter, deep-clean and organize the dining room or dining area, and tackle any associated activity centers.
Ready? Time to bring order to the dining room in the New Year Cleaning Challenge!
Printables: Dining Room Cleaning Checklist
January 30, 2016
New Year Cleaning Challenge: Kitchen Week Wrap-Up
This week, we've kicked it in the kitchen, cleaning and organizing everything from the counters to the pantry. Time for a weekend wrap-up!
Today, take the last steps to clean, declutter and organize kitchen and food storage areas.
Next week, we dive into the dining room in the New Year Cleaning Challenge, so clear the decks in the kitchen today!
January 26, 2016
New Year Cleaning Challenge: Clear Kitchen Countertops
What's taken up residence on your kitchen counters?
The old real estate maxim works for kitchens, too: "location, location, location!" In the kitchen, countertop space represents the room's most prestigious--and hardest-working--real estate address. Is your cooking space clean and lean--or crammed and cluttered?
Today in the New Year Cleaning Challenge, we'll clear kitchen countertops, applying a simple A-B-C method to make zoning decisions for appliances, decor and storage.
January 25, 2016
New Year Cleaning Challenge: Cut Clutter in the Kitchen
When we dream of an ideal kitchen, the room we visualize is usually spare, clean and serene.
But when we open our eyes to reality, we're faced with a basic truth: the kitchen has an amazing ability to attract clutter.
Even after out-of-place items are rounded up and given new homes, we remain faced with hard-core kitchen clutter.
How to banish kitchen clutter once and for all? Try these kitchen declutter tips in today's New Year Cleaning Challenge Challenge.
January 24, 2016
New Year Cleaning Challenge: Kitchen Week
It's a new week in the New Year Cleaning Challenge: kitchen and pantry take center stage during Kitchen Week.
In the days ahead, we'll declutter, deep-clean and organize the kitchen, and brush up our pantry power in food storage areas.
Menu and meal planning basics round out the week in the New Year Cleaning Challenge.
Ready? Let's get cooking!
Printables: Kitchen Cleaning Checklist
