Slow progress
There is now a screen in the window on the stairs - with lots of help from my friend Ty.
Ty also managed to get the vent cover back on in the kitchen (I'd taken it out to wash it) - turns out the cover is smaller than the hole it covers so the screws have to be applied off side.
Meanwhile, I cleaned window blinds, and the stair window.
Further progress is finally getting a new shelf up (for auto books and maps) on the staircase and beginning the cleaning process on the others - i.e. take off books, take off small items, take down shelf, wash shelf, put shelf back, put books back (washing the top of each), put back small items (washing each.) Then juggling the new books into place. I've also removed some art (a set of framed postcards) and replaced them with two Pacific Northwestern Native American prints (facing another I purchased in Seattle) and next to the bookshelves are three Native American tiles.
Next up sweep stairs, finish washing walls, stairs, railings and reevaluate the art in the rest of the area - remove some, hang new/revised art, take down the hook rugs, put up some framed textiles, move the winter stuff to a pile for dry cleaning and review what's out for the spring and summer. And finish the kitchen (finish sorting paper about cooking and file), do dishes, etc.
Then photo both areas for my prospective renter (due the first week in June.)
Tomorrow I'm also going to setup the bedroom upstairs for repainting - the pink there now is so dark - and next week paint it.
Spring cleaning, spring cleaning, spring cleaning. Too many years since I've done it!
Ty also managed to get the vent cover back on in the kitchen (I'd taken it out to wash it) - turns out the cover is smaller than the hole it covers so the screws have to be applied off side.
Meanwhile, I cleaned window blinds, and the stair window.
Further progress is finally getting a new shelf up (for auto books and maps) on the staircase and beginning the cleaning process on the others - i.e. take off books, take off small items, take down shelf, wash shelf, put shelf back, put books back (washing the top of each), put back small items (washing each.) Then juggling the new books into place. I've also removed some art (a set of framed postcards) and replaced them with two Pacific Northwestern Native American prints (facing another I purchased in Seattle) and next to the bookshelves are three Native American tiles.
Next up sweep stairs, finish washing walls, stairs, railings and reevaluate the art in the rest of the area - remove some, hang new/revised art, take down the hook rugs, put up some framed textiles, move the winter stuff to a pile for dry cleaning and review what's out for the spring and summer. And finish the kitchen (finish sorting paper about cooking and file), do dishes, etc.
Then photo both areas for my prospective renter (due the first week in June.)
Tomorrow I'm also going to setup the bedroom upstairs for repainting - the pink there now is so dark - and next week paint it.
Spring cleaning, spring cleaning, spring cleaning. Too many years since I've done it!