What Cleaning Experts Actually Use to Get Their Bathrooms Sparkling Clean

 

Photo source:  Martha Stewart 

"Your bathroom may be one of the smaller rooms in your home, but that doesn't make it any easier to clean. It requires tackling a wide variety of surfaces and buildup, including mold, mildew, hard water spots, mineral deposits, and soap scum.

But natural cleaners made from common household products, like vinegar, baking soda, water, and dish soap, offer easy solutions for removing everything from rust around your faucet to soap scum on the shower door. To give you insight into the best natural cleaners, we consulted the experts who shared the ingredients they actually use to make their bathrooms shine."  Comment from Martha Stewart.com

The one chore I hate the most!

Click here to go to the Martha Stewart.com article.

Organizing Under the Bathroom Sink

 

I've been in the middle of reorganizing the whole house since my mom sold her house and left me with a bunch of her stuff.

I haven't started on the bathroom, but this awesome article caught my attention.  Lots of great tips for the time I start in that room.  

Click here for the article if you need to get yours organized too.

Unique Bathroom Shelves

This is the coolest idea I have seen for the bathroom in a really long time!
A unit like this can be picked up at a thrift store very inexpensively and painted to match your decor.  What an easy way to make a drastic change and gain a lot of storage space.  If you have a small bathroom like mine with a way too small closet, something like this would come in so handy.  I love it!
FreshHomeIdeas launched their website today . . . WOW it is fabulous!! I've gotten lost going through everything and spent way too much time letting my imagination go wild from all of their home and garden ideas. If you love DIY like I do, you will LOVE this website!

For the complete article on this bathroom makeover, click here!

Awesome discoveries!

Sometimes blog hopping is like a treasure hunt for me.  Today was a semi-lazy day and I just cruised around blogs, still answering comments and following the awesome bloggers who have recently followed me.  

Gotta love those blog hops!

Some of those discoveries I have made are well worth mentioning . . .

First of all, my regular readers know that I love DIY, crafts and funky, unique items in general.  I love those bloggers who share those interests with me!  


I am so happy these bloggers found me through one of the blog hops . . . they are just plain awesome!  I'm talking about Koco & Viking . . . you must check them out!

Through Koco & Viking, I found this awesome project that simply blew me away from Crafty Nest, a blog that is loaded with awesome DIY projects that include tutorials.  Click on the photo to go to the tutorial for this unusual and quirky bath mat made of wine corks.  


Enjoy collecting the 175 wine corks needed for making this bath mat!  If you are not a wine drinker, wine corks are available at the local craft store.


My mom has a wine cork photo frame my cousin made for her . . . it is gorgeous and very unusual.  You have to look at it very closely to figure out what the material is!  I love that kind of stuff and I can see using wine corks in many of my future DIY projects.  I had forgotten about using wine corks in projects until I saw this one.


Crafty Nest also has a post on sealing corks . . . 
check it out if you are going to use corks in your projects.

Wouldn't wine corks make awesome place mats?  


I can see them lined up on the outside of an old coffee can with holes punched on the bottom for a very cool and unusual plant container.  Don't get me started on yard art!!  I'm gonna stop before I go on and on :)


Check out these two blogs . . . you will probably love them too!