Now three months latter we have put an end to the basement purge and organization and will begin another room of the house. Here are some other posts on the basement purge
Goodbye 2012
Slow and Steady Wins the Race
Lost Treasures
Ridding the house of toxins
My husband said from the beginning that we shouldn't start with the basement because it would be the largest task and the most daunting. Oh I hope he was right, cause there were times I thought about just giving up on this endeavor. The thought of still having to do even more rooms and closets after this was overwhelming. But now the biggest part is done and the house feels liter more calm and ready for more purging.
So now I want to share the before and after pictures (the before ones you have seem before) side by side so you can see the scope of our cleaning.
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The main room still has some piles of boxes around I'll get to those.
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The shop/laundry area, is also used for winter bike storage so it will look even better soon.
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The office still has some work to do, but it is mostly my husbands paper work and things to sell that remain in here so I'm moving on while he will still spend some time working in this area.
The under the stair storage might not look as impressive as it really is, but if you could have seen in the back of it and realize now it is not over flowing and I got rid of about 3 full bins of clothes, then you would be impressed.
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This is the storage closet. Believe it or not there is lots more room in here now
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It might look like this shelf is more crowded then before but it is holding things that used to just be in the floor in this room and we got rid of about 4 bins/boxes of stuff from just these shelves.
Now after many hours of work it looks better, that's all I will say is better. Not great yet. But I want to point out some of the piles in the basement really are. Then maybe you can get a better idea of the scope.
This pile on the futon is all going to a consignment sale at the end of this week.
This pile is all going to be donated to the City Mission. Understand this is just the stuff we are donating that we found in the basement (and some clothes I'll admit), we still have 5 more rooms in our house to go through.
There still are a few piles in the office area to be taken care of but those aren't really my area so I'm moving on.
I'm so excited that I now have a good little area in the basement where the kids can play with play doh (cause they always ask to do that right after I vacuum the house and I just say no cause I hate the mess) and do other messy activities. They also have room to ride their horse and the little cars or play with a ball.
I don't know if you are inspired but I am. I can't wait to start the next room (the kitchen) and keep going. This summer I plan to repaint the basement and get rid of the ugly wall paper trim. We are also going to redo the basement bathroom, that I spared your eyes the awful sight of (not because it is messy or dirty just UGLY). So right now it doesn't look like whole new room/area but hopefully soon.
Happy Purging Everyone
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