So here it is. I'm scared to share

I took photos of my house the day before I started to super clean.  I had a few days to work at home and I feel I accomplished quite a bit.  I will show the improvements next post.  So, here goes...messy!!!

When you walk in the front door, this is what you see.  Not a great impression I know, but I can say it is an improvement that I actually created a purpose for this front room which was designed to be a dining room.  It was just a small sitting area with my prettiest furniture and accessories, but didn't serve any purpose at all really.  It works very well as an office where I can meet clients, and the whole family can use the computer here.

This is our Family Room/Kitchen open space where we spend most of our time.  My office is up in the front, so when I meet with clients all must be clean!

View from the back door...

Kitchen view...

Well, I think my kitchen was extra, super messy, and I didn't take a photo of it.  

Here is the stairs, things to take up and to take down always seem to stay for awhile.  

Then here is the view at the top of the stairs looking into the craft/play room and further into my bedroom.  This is always a problem.  I use this table to place boxes and containers that need to go elsewhere, and it is a huge embarrassment every time someone visits and this is what they see first coming up the stairs.  Right now, since I have been eliminating lots and lots of things, I am happy to say that under the table and against the wall there are just empty containers, notebooks, and bags.  Yeah!!!

Here is the Craft Room.  I will always be creating, even though I can't do much of it right now, so this space is important to me.  The kids also have a space for arts and crafts and puzzles.  I have great storage space here.  This was an organized space, but since I moved much of my things from the garage into here to make room for my flower designing, I now need to start over.

This is my bedroom after a weekend of work - last room on the list as far as priority unfortunately, but it does serve it's purpose...sleeping.  

My goals for this room:  Wall system for TV, with additional storage to put things away.  Getting rid of the mattress on the floor (which is mine because our bed became too soft for me - my body didn't like that soft King bed during and after my second pregnancy).  This room is a great size and is obviously not used at it's full potential.  A new rule I have put into place is no toys in Momma's room.  It's been several days and my kids are doing good so far.

Kid's Bath.  Not too hard to keep up with.  This is about as bad as it gets.

Baby Girl's Room.  The problem with this room now is that I have put Christmas boxes at the side of her bed to get them out of the hallway.  These have needed to go in the attic for about 4 months now.  OK, that is bad.

My Boy's Room....toys, toys and.....wait for it..... toys :)

And I have already had two garage sales this year.

OK.  I put it all out there for everyone to see.  Kind of embarassing, but I feel I will be much more accountable to accomplish more and more.  I am actually excited.

 I guess that is enough for now.  I'll share closets later.  This is overwhelming enough already.