make my house presentable enough for unexpected guests

The main areas of the house are presentable again. My mother bought me an excellent lightweight DirtDevil vaccuum she found at a thrift store. It sucks up everything but the trade off, which I’m quite willing to put up with, is that it’s extremely loud. Sounds like you really have a dirt devil working inside the tiny dust compartment, going nuts for you.

I’m also in the process of throwing away extraneous papers. Amazing how obsolete things get when you leave them for a year and gain perspective.

It’s been a while since I’ve visited this goal, and it’ll be a while before I entertain in the house. But this is still an important goal. My focus here will be to completely clean and declutter the house from January to April, the first quarter of the new year. Because when I am put on bedrest, I won’t be able to clean at all, and I want to make things as simple as possible for my husband and anyone else who may be helping out.

I cleaned the kitchen completely, again. Sigh. I absolutely love a clean kitchen, but it always seems to get dirty so quickly and it takes me a great amount of time to talk myself into cleaning it.

Next week, I’m scheduling another couple of hours to cleaning it. I still have to do the bathroom today. And am currently decluttering the closet.

It’s odd but since I posted this goal, I seem to be entertaining guests several times a month, so there is a necessity to keep it moderately presentable.

having the owners of your rental property want to have the house valued to shake you up into doing a serious clean.

The house was really embarrassing without realising it. It’s now nearly 100% ok. I need to wash all the windows (of which there are many) and continue with decluttering and do the garden and I’ll be happy!

please drop by. The house is in good order in the living/kitchen areas and best of all my DH did it ALL!!! :-D Hooray for going away for a few days and coming home to a clean house.

To get our lounge suite steam cleaned and fix up the broken part of it. Really, I just want to turf it. I’ve always hated it (poor Tyrone who really wanted it) and some feral children that came to stay with us last year, jumped on the top all over it and the stuffing has come out of the middle part of the back rest. So I need to restuff it and sew it back up. Easy enough to do I hope. Also want to get it steam cleaned as it is looking quite grotty and not at all I want for all of those unexpected guests that never unexpectedly arrive!

I vaccuumed and rearranged the furniture today. I want to make it comfortable and inviting, a beautiful place to be. Which means that slowly I’d like to switch out a few ratty, old things and put in some new ones. A rough list:

1. new sleep pillows
2. pretty reading lamp
3. short bookcase
4. night stand
5. radio/cd player
6. plants
7. new mattress sheets
8. quilt

I didn’t do anything major with it. Cleaned off my desk and polished it. Cleaned the windows and dusty ledges, vaccuumed. Rearranged a few things. But on the whole, it looks and feels so much fresher, AND roomier. There are some things I have not done yet, like displaying our framed photos, going through the magazine piles, and the stack of receipts and paperwork. But these aren’t necessary for this goal.

Today I’ll be starting with the guest room. I really want to get a few pieces of furniture for it, like a night stand, cute lamp, etc. It’s currently our dumping ground for excess stuff right now.

I made a lot of progress towards this goal today. Spent the entire day cleaning up the bathroom and the entire kitchen and all the floors. I also sorted out things to file and threw out a whole bunch of junk mail. Also did four loads of laundry and made a fresh bed with them and covered the couch with fresh covers.

Tomorrow I’m going to tackle the living room and either the guestroom or the bedroom. I felt so good about the clean-ness.

zones in the house that are great and others that are not so great. But essentially, the living room/dining room/kitchen are presentable enough for me not to be embarressed if someone dropped in.