Day 10: Another Deviation from the 30-Day Plan

Today's task was to deep clean the living room, but I decided to change the plan a bit for three reasons: 1) my surface cleaning of the living pretty much just constitutes cleaning the living room; 2) my husband has turned the living room into a temporary workout room while we reorganize the basement for that purpose; and 3) so far the plan has not included the dining room, which is a problem room for me.  Everyday the dining room table ends up being the catchall place for mail, my purse, lists, school books, etc.  So, today I decided to clean the dining room.  Admittedly, it is still not completely clean, but it's getting there.

One of the projects on my to-do list is to redo the side entryway as the house organization central location.  I'm hopeful that when I get that done, it will help with the dining room table problem.  Which really, the problem is paper clutter, not the table.  Ugh.  Any suggestions for how to effectively deal with paper clutter?

Messy, messy before - PAPER EVERYWHERE!

Easter decorations and shoe boxes needed put away.

After - No paper and updated accessories!

After

In addition to the dining room, I redid the foyer because I still had a few remaining wintery decorations.  The big addition here was the beautiful clock that we received as a wedding present, but hadn't found a spot for yet.  

Project 10: Complete!