Porch.

Here's some pictures of our porch. First I'll show ones I took last year, then I'll show what it looked like today before and then I'll show my progress picture. I won't call it an after yet because there are still boxes I want to get rid of. And I want to sweep. 

June 2014:

April 25th 2015 before:

Then here is how the porch looks currently. 

April 25th 2015:

That stack of four boxes... Will be gone next weekend. Maybe I'll even deal with the big box by the sliding glass door. 

Things I want to do still?

-Sweep/vacuum.

-Get rid of the five boxes. 3 can go in the recycling bin next weekend. Then there are 2 that have stuff in them. I could probably put the smaller boxes content into the big one. 

-Put my computer chair out there and a table possibly. I want to be able to sit out there and read a book or paint my nails. I know my computer chair is easy to get to but I don't know if my old desk is easy to get to. The computer chair was a gift from my dad in 2001 and now it's dirty but I'm thinking I can get it clean enough to sit on. I probably won't bring it to our future new place (whenever that is). 

-Wash the blankets and put them in the closet and in the barn. There's 2 out there and I want the thinner one in the closet and the quilt in the barn. 

-Try to get rid of the duffel bag and yugioh cards. That's J's job though. 

-And finally I want to clean the plant table and the surrounding area. I want to get new soil and give my plants some fresh soil and some fertilizer. And maybe buy one or two more plants. I have that big purple planter available (the plant is just sitting in there in its own planter) and then I have 2 pink planters in the barn. I might put the palm tree into the bigger purple planter to see if it grows bigger. 

So those are my plans for the porch this spring! 

A quick before and after!

I was attempting to clean our porch up. I really want to make it useable and to enjoy it out there. I want to put a table and chair out there to watch the sunset, read and do my nails out there. But while I was doing that I found a basket in a box. I used to have this basket in our pantry at our old house. And it's just been sitting in a box for over a year going unused. It's a nice basket! So I brought inside to use on top of our mini fridge. 

Before: 

There's the basket and the area I wanted to clean up, here's a closer picture of the mess on top of the mini fridge. 

Some of that is garbage (plastic bottles and the receipt) and then the rest is food and food related items. 

Here's the after:

I still want to put a shelf above that area and also hang a paper towel holder up on the wall. The paper towels just keep getting moved around and sitting on valuable real estate. 

Check out my other post about the porch!