Well, we've finally wrapped up our 1.5 months of viewing and voting on the Smallest Coolest spaces. Thanks again to the AT:Chicago community for joining us last Thursday at DWR Tree Studio for some contest talk, fun conversation and lively stories. As always, it was so nice to meet (or re-meet) you!
For the rest of May, we are going to focus on Spring Cleaning, and getting our places as spotless as possible. When we clean, we tend to do small amounts at random times, rather than a large overhaul during an entire day. This of course means that certain jobs are easier to put off then others. What's the one cleaning job you really need a push to accomplish?
We'll be blogging helpful products, resources and encouragement for your spring cleaning jobs, and if there's something you want to ask, read, or share with AT, drop us a line!
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Comments (6)
putting things in their places when i am lacking in furniture. i often don't want to even try to give it a temporary home (although that is what bf and i did all weekend) becuase i hate not having adequate furniture.
elizabeth, same here. I recently moved from a small apartment with lots of built-in storage to a larger place in with no built-in storage at all, and now all of my stuff sits in small (but tidy!) piles on the floor.
i like cleaning, & my place is usually ok, but certain things annoy me. i still do them, but ugh... yuck!
1. litter box, not fun.
2. laundry, the part that gets me is putting it all away. i usually do it during a radio program to make it easier.
Floor washing, hands down. Hate it hate it. I think it's because it's such a fussy job, with the mops, the water, blah blah. I don't want to use the environmentally-bad floor mops where you throw everything away (although I do use the throwaway floor cloths in my bathroom :C which has the litter box in it and is a white tile that always looks dirty, except when freshly washed.) I've never been able to wrap my head around this task. Fortunately, the tile in the kitchen and other areas of my place never looks dirty, even when (now) it is.
Katie, that is so funny! That is my same predicament. There are three closets in the entire 2 bedroom apartment. the biggest closet is in........THE DINING ROOM!!!!! it's so frustrating. there is simply NO storage and we are trying so hard to come up with a place for everything. Like with big boxes (out of season clothes, christmas decorations especially, etc) if you put it in a closet, you do away with room for the yoga mats and that ..ball thing.. and guitars, etc. i have all my blankets in my very narrow (as in long but not deep in any way, shape or form) bedroom closet. the closet in the second bedroom, i really think it's probaly 2ftX3ft with some awful, tiny, useless shelves in them. in my old apartment, there was a walkin (with built in shelves, etc) and a regular closet in the bedroom, one in the spare bedroom, one in the hall, one in the kitchen, and one in the living room. hated the location of that apartment but the one i live in now is cheaper, and has w/d connections (and i got a free washer and dryer from a co-worker).
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