Green Deep Cleaning: Day 14 - Organize shelves and Drawers

Today is your chance to clean out any drawers or shelves in the Living Room! There's nothing really complicated about this day, but if you are like me, it's a much needed day!

Wipe off/out drawers with the EnviroCloth and apply that Oil/Vinegar mix as mentioned before to any wood that you are cleaning.

I love everyone else's shelves! I love to peruse Pinterest for all kinds of ideas on how to make my living room shelves look like a magazine. What am drawn to? Well, simplified shelves!

Here's what I like for my shelves:

Simple, small collections, grouped together
Books in order of size, tallest to shortest, or visa versa.
If function is needed (i.e. videos, or remotes, etc.), use baskets or bins to organize clutter
Pick a 3-4 items of interest to "decorate" (this could be a globe, a vase, an antique camera, whatever)

I love how this shelving unit, although it's for an office, has the bins to reign in the clutter, yet has a few decorations as well as some books to add! The order makes me happy. Let's face it, most people don't have the luxury of having shelves that don't need to function for storage in their living room.

For me, I homeschool in the living room, and have only one shelf available in our small living room - so it's where all the homeschool books live. Pretty bags are where the daily school books are kept on my living room shelf, and then the rest of the shelf is just books and bibles. Not fancy, but the clutter does get crazy regularly!

So that's it! Today you just clean and simplify your shelves so it feels clean!

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