Project Clean Up 2021...Week 5: Great Room

The Great Room took more time than it ever has. Not sure why exactly? I think I focused a lot more on the mopping and drying than usual. I was able to get the Valentine's Day decor up so I was very happy with that. 

I went from the golds and whites of the Valentine decor last year to basing the design around a jar and block set I made during a craft night. 

I loved how it turned out! 

Onto the cleaning...

So, as I've told you before, this room is big. I mean, BIG. It is the room with the highest ceiling, tall walls, lots of windows, ceiling beams, lots of furniture, fireplace and hardwood floors. Here is how I made it all happen...

__Vacuum sofas

__Spot clean sofas, if applicable

__Febreze Sofas and any pillows that cannot be laundered

__Launder throw pillows and blankets

I love that feeling of a completely clean couch. Spot cleaned, vacuumed out, washed throw pillows and Febrezed. Holiday pillows put out really perks it all up. 

__Dust shelves, furniture and decor

__Touch up black furniture with marker

This is one of our ladder shelves. We have 2 total, one on each side of the tv. I use a simple black marker to touch up any scuffs. This is also done on the tv stand. 

__Clean lamps and lampshades

__Wash windows and sills

__Take down curtains and handwash, dry, rehang

These are the windows towards the back of our room, towards the pool area. There are 3 other high windows in the front of the room, but these are the only curtains that have to be taken down, handwashed and dried. 

__Take out and wash window screens

__Clean TV screen

__Carefully dust electronics

__Tidy electronics wires. Tuck nicely out of sight. Label them, if practical.

__Sort dvd's in basket under coffee table. Keep any under that are currently watching, put others back in dvd cabinet. 

__Wash switch plates

__Wash walls and trim as needed

The walls go up very high so I have to be sure to break out the 6 ft ladder. Still having random stink bugs here and there, I have to look very closely for stink bug track marks to clean off of the walls.

__Wash doors and door knobs

__Wash floor registers and other vent covers. Hose sweep as far down in vent as possible. 

__Clean floors; broom sweep, shopvac sweep cracks of plank wood. Mop, Dry. 

We have plank wood flooring so I get the Shop Vac going and sweep thoroughly between the cracks. That is when you really have that feeling of the room being clean. 

__Vacuum area rugs 

Onto Week 6: Foyer.

See you next week!