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Furniture InformationOrganizing Your Living Room-Family Room
by:
Simon Harris
Generally there is one room in the home wherever
most of the "family living" takes place. In order to have a pleasant and hospitable
living area for your family, and a place you can be proud of once
you have visitors, you need to move up with several type of organization and storage for your main room, whether it be the living room or family room.
Step back and take a look at your room as a alien would. Is it cluttered? Are there newspapers, catalogs and magazines pilled up all over the tables? Kids toys thrown all over? Shoes lying around? What is the condition of the furniture, would-be you feel comfortable sitting on your sofa, or makes it evidently belong to the family dog?
One great way to start organizing any room in your home is to start with empty baskets with the name of each family member. Thing
that you find in the living room/family room that doesn't belong in that room goes into that person's basket. That pair of sneakers, those comic books, that old sweatshirt, the toys. Deliver the basket to the appropriate owner. Once you've gone through the clutter, focus on newspapers, catalogs and magazines. Throw out the old ones. If you must have your magazines and catalogs get a good magazine holder you can put next to your chair.
Now that you've cleared most of the clutter take a look about again. Simply how dust-covered was that piece of furniture under all that "stuff"? Get one of those bang-up magnet-like dust cloths and dust, dust, dust. It's likely that once you see clear and shiny surface you'll be more apt to support it that way. Use several Windex on your TV and stereo cabinet. Looking more better by now isn't it? Now it's time to vacuum. If you have the time, do it thoroughly. Have person help you pull the couch and chairs out, vacuum behind them. If you don't have the time, vacuum about the piece of furniture until you do have the time for a thorough vacuum.
Now it's time to focus on the furniture. If your couch has been stained and chopped by the kids and the animals, and if the site of it do you cringe, imagine how your guests feel once
you invite them to sit on it. It mightiness be time for a new one. If a new one is out of the question, you can easily give your couch a new and updated look with a slipcover. There are lots of fitted slipcovers accessible in wide varieties of colors and patterns and there is sure to be one to suit your decorating taste.
There, wasn't that easy?
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