This is the worst. The invisible corner of the whole apartment. The way we have our living room set up, the couch divides it into two separate spaces. The space we usually inhabit doesn’t get too cluttered because we constantly need to use it, but the area behind the couch… a no man’s land of discarded and forgotten possessions.

Most of those boxes aren’t even FULL, they’re just THERE, being visible and ugly and cluttery. But after today, it’s all GONE.

And since I had access to the previously-inaccessible DVD shelves…

I put them all away!

So proud of this one, guys. This has been fucked since we moved in, since it’s been a catch-all for everything we didn’t know what to do with.

The only truly bad areas now are the large walk-in closet that we utilize but have never organized, and the three boxes of things from around the house that still need sorting.

But for the most part…

UNFUCKED FOR 2012!

I’m so sorry, I haven’t been on to update!!

Day 3 was the dining room. I use that term loosely, since it hasn’t been used to “dine” in any formal sense for many months, and it’s basically been entirely converted to a nerd-room. This is where the computers go when we get together and play games, this is where the tabletop roleplaying sessions are held, where the Warhammer battles take place. Since it was converted pretty hastily, nothing really had a place, and there were just piles everywhere.

Everything has since been repurposed to hold things that are relevant! (And yes, that computer is functional there - or will be once it gets plugged in again. It doesn’t need to be at a desk because we’ll mostly use it for a server, we’ll just have to access it every now and then)

This corner was literally just piles of nonsense. There was no reason for any of that to be there.

And now it’s clear!!

And the main area of the room - awful. Notice the jury-rigged “curtain” over both windows there: it blocks SOME of the sun, some of the time, and has been like that for weeks.

Annnnd after! The addition of the table there is because when I was taking the “fucked” pictures, it had been moved to the living room to play a board game, and I didn’t have the space yet to move it back. But now I do! I have all the space in the world!! Also here is my lovely fiance completely engrossed in Old Republic.

Day 4 will be posted shortly!!

Day 2 of my venture was the foyer. The big project here (the room is pretty empty to begin with, and minor clutter just needed to be moved out) was the shelving unit that’s been leaning on the wall in pieces for months:

So ugly! Now, this is not your standard IKEA furniture here. Handmade by my grandfather, disassembled by my forgetful dad, there were no instructions to be had. And it had to be assembled in a certain order, as some things screwed in and some fit into slots, and would have to be taken apart again if a piece didn’t fit. The only option was to lay it all out on the floor and figure it out.

After several hours mucking about and manually screwing things in until the drill battery charged, we were in business! But it was super heavy and we weren’t sure if it would fall apart if we tried to lift it, so we had to wait for Joe to get home for backup. Here he is being sexy handy and mounting it to the wall for us after we lifted it (with mama looking on).

Now, the reason why this was so important - packed away in our giant “Harry Potter Closet” have been about six boxes of books, completely inaccessible and cluttered and awful. Since I repurposed my shelves when we moved, I didn’t have space for them in my room, and they have been sitting around waiting for me to set this thing up. Now, since we have those nifty shelf tracks, I can make the shelves any size I want to. Which meant I had to bring all my books out and figure out where they’d all go, so I could see what size they had to be.

Finally and painstakingly, the final product!!!

Completely organized and put away, and with room for growth! I’ve also decided that this unit will be my book-limit. If a new book doesn’t fit on these shelves, I need to get rid of an older book (or download it for my Nook) to make room for it.

There is a desk attachment (where those two awkward-looking random pieces of wood are in the center) but it was too late to get that done tonight. It will be done tomorrow though, and no more pieces of this brute will fuck my habitat any longer!

So I wanted to wait until after Christmas because of the pre-holiday madness, but this week is the Week of Unfucking. By the new year, I want my entire apartment to look like a place where people live, and not like a giant closet that people nest in. Things don’t have homes, invisible corners abound, and it’s all quite gross. So I’m tackling one or two rooms a day, and Tumblr will get a nice tour of my place, messy and dirty. 

As of now, the kitchen and bathroom are done… On to the pictures!!

Bathroom:

I even unfucked the cabinet:

Kitchen:

Today I’m doing the foyer, which doesn’t have too much clutter, but it does have an old shelving unit that my grandfather made and I LOVE, but my dad disassembled it a few years ago and it’s been sitting in my foyer for months after I retrieved it from him and said I’d put it back together and use it.

WISH ME LUCK!

Unfucked my room LIKE A BOSS.

Before: Clothes & random shit ALL OVER THE FUCK PLACE, laundry PILING!!

AFTER!!!!: Clothes PUT AWAY LIKE A GODDAMNED GROWNUP. Random shit MOSTLY THROWN OUT!! (Most of this laundry has yet to be done because some asshole downstairs keeps hogging the washer and dryer, but IT WILL BE DONE!)

Before: Bed so messy it’s not even possible to sleep in!! Cleaning supplies randomly stored! Rug invisible!! Uneccessarily Warm Blanket BALLED ON THE FLOOR! PILLOWS ON THE FLOOR WTF! Waterbottles EVERYWHERE!!

AFTER!!!!: Blankets and pillows ON THE BED NEATLY! Unnecessarily Warm Blanket FOLDED ON THE BENCH! I HAVE A FUCKING RUG!!! Cleaning supplies IN THEIR PLACES! Waterbottles RECYCLED! LOVELY CANDLE ON NIGHTSTAND IN THE EVENT OF ROMANCE!!

Before: The worst corner of the room, BY FAR. Clothes fucking TAKING OVER. An entire medicine cabinet’s worth of shit SCATTERED. DESK DRAWER ON TOP OF DESK. A treasure trove of waterbottles in the trash can! THE FUCKING CLOTHES HAVE I MENTIONED THE CLOTHES. I discovered TWO SWORDS underneath the pile on Joe’s desk.

AFTER!!!!: Clothes NO LONGER A THREAT! Bathroom shit IN THE BATHROOM! NERF SWORDS RESTORED TO THEIR PLACES OF HONOR! Trash GONE! DESK DRAWER INSIDE DESK! I even moved that lonely looking power strip behind Joe’s desk so he can not only plug his phone in without the cord dangerously stretching across the room, but we can now use the (not pictured) previously USELESS small, reachable-from-bed lamp on his side!

I still have a lot to unfuck elsewhere, but right now I feel like a BOSS.