From "Enter At Your Own Risk" to "Welcome Friends....

My entry is its own little room. I've always, until recently, kept it "ready for company". I'm unable to say when it first became too embarrasing to even open my front door. It became a room which isolated me from the outside world until today when I was able to face it and "put it in order"

Here is the before picture:

Supplies Used:
Garbage Bag (Most Important Tool)
Dusting Cloth
Pledge (the kind you spray not the kind you say)
Vacuum
Courage
Time to complete: 20 Minutes

Favorite moment from this experience...I found a set of keys for a lock I haven't been able to open for eight years and a love seat and chair that I forgot I had....

Here is the after picture:

TA DA!!!!!!

I'm Alive.....

Furnace Room COMPLETE

Materials Used - Garbage Bag, Dustpan, Broom, Rag, Dustmask, Bravery
Time to Complete - 30 Minutes

I've come out on the other side of the "Spiders' Den" (yes, that's right----plural scurrying earth monsters-----ugh). I didn't know that the top of my water heater was a beautiful metallic blue (I think I'd like a car that color)....
Here's the "proof".....

The First Step........

My incredible daughter figured out how to upload my pictures, so here are the before pictures of the furnace room.

Stand by for the after pictures....