If you have been following Organizing-Life for a bit, you already know that I set aside the month of June to tackle our basement. I mean: clear out all the clutter, give away, sell, and toss extra stuff we never knew we had, clean every surface, and re-decorate a bit. My goal is to create a usable, beautiful, organized space we actually want to live in. If you are new here, welcome! Please check out the reclaiming the basement intro article and week 1 article here

I am happy to say we have made some progress! I rallied a bit last week to move out the clutter since we were having guests over. I rearranged the furniture, cleaned up the clutter, vacuumed, dusted, filed, and took out the trash. My husband and I are posting about 50 items on Craig’s list, and we have dropped off the 4-garbage-bag clothing donation to Goodwill. Whew! Here are a few before and after pictures.

Before                                                        After

Before                                                        After

The best modification you can’t see is that we got a new washer and dryer delivered Monday. The bad thing is that we have an electrical problem of some sort that makes the dryer flip the breaker switch each time we try to dry a load. Hopefully, we’ll have this up and running in no time and we will once again have clean clothing. (No worries that our family is stinky and dirty readers, we are doing our wash 2 miles down the road at my in-laws’ home.)

Up next:

1. Lighting
2. More paper filing and shredding
3. Decorating
4. Sell, sell, sell, this is where some of our budget is coming from!

Stay tuned and see if I can transform this space into something beautiful! Do you have a summer-long organizing project? Leave a comment here to inspire other readers, or e-mail me (abbieipark at gmail dot com) to guest post your project article here at Organizing-Life.com. Happy Organizing!