Cleaning the Family Room

I have been inspired by some of the beautiful rooms and corners and other special areas other people share on their blogs that I decided to jump in to start cleaning the family room. This is where we hang out most of the time and the mess has been driving me crazy. I needed to feast my eyes on something nice when I relax in my recliner. The picture below is the before mess. Now you know why it is driving my crazy. Plus the dusty smell we were getting was getting annoying. I would wrinkle my nose and say to myself "time to do something about this." Time to vaccum really good.

I went over the carpet several times to really get up the dust and dirt. What a difference! You can really smell the difference when you walk out of room and then come back in again. That makes me smile! Also got down most of the cobwebs and did most of the dusting.

This picture shows how much better it looks now. I can't believe I actually got the entire table cleared off. We took out a the center leaf to make it a circle. Takes up less space that way. That table is a very good maple table that used to belong to my late Godmother. I know the table cloth does not really fit that table, but I don't have any round table cloths. I have a fall theme table runner somewhere around here that I want to use. But I need to get a round fall color tablecloth first. Then I need to find that table runner. Right now I can't remember where I put it!

This morning my husband said, "what a different feeling to walk in here!" He is right. It does feel different and better too! I still need to finish straightening up the bookcase by the table and along the right side of the picture out of sight still needs to be cleaned up and straightened and dusted. I am starting to smile at my room now and that is what counts. I am now motivated to continue and perhaps get some of my fall things out do some fun decorating. I have a set of 3 cloth pumpkins I made one year. I usually put those out each year. Happy Monday!