Clean Bedroom

Picture of the Day for 9/12/2010. I'm finally making progress getting my house cleaned and organized. It was so frustrating having all this time on my hands while I was recuperating from surgery and not being able to lift a finger (per doctor's orders) to work on the house. Since I returned to active employment this past week, I considered myself officially healed and decided to tackle my bedroom. I spent the entire weekend washing every wall and surface- basically every nook and cranny. I think I'm the only person in the 50+ history of the house to ever take out all the drawers from the built-ins and wash them, along with washing the interior walls of the built-ins. It was pretty gross. I'm pretty sure my lungs are coated with several inches of dust. I also suspect I still have cobwebs in my hair. Ick.

As you can see, the room looks pretty spartan. That's OK for now. I'm just happy it's pristine. I'll focus on decorating (and painting and replacing the floral curtains and replacing the flooring) after I finish cleaning the other rooms and unpacking all my boxes.

Let me point out the curtains are open. This may not seem notable, but it's a big deal to me. My mother never opened the curtains in her bedroom. At most, she occasionally opened up the living room curtains for very brief periods of time. It's taken awhile to realize that as an adult, I am free to open any curtain I want at any time. Wow- the freedom.


In honor of my mother, I hung a picture on her side of the room that used to hang in my parents' cabin. My mother always said this print reminded her the rolling hills and Bluebells of east Texas where she grew up.