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We're a sloppt family, pure and simple. I do find that focusing on one room at a time makes the task a little less daunting, and that's the beauty of this list. Even after a long day if you know you just have to wipe down your bathrooms it makes housework seem manageable.

Art definitely! There's a lot of stuff in your apartment but those bare walls could hold tons of color. There's been some good DIY here lately on making your own patterned wall art.

This reminds me so much of the attic in our old house! Put baby at one end, and your bed at the other. You'll be plenty close enough to hear nighttime wakeups, but not so close as to hear every gurgle, which is the path to insomnia and eventual nervous breakdown. Use the downstairs closet for your hanging things, and just have low dressers against the walls upstairs where you can't stand up anyway and the floor space won't be wasted. When baby is bigger, it can be 'their' space and you won't have toys everywhere downstairs!
I so wished to be able to do this at our house, but the stairs were deadly steep. I have an acquaintance who put her kids in the attic and they are the envy of all their friends!

Avon bubble bath will shampoo carpets, wash walls and even get rid of laundry stains. I've given my bathrooms a quick wipe down with a bucket of bubbles. Other than that, vinegar is all I use.

I think strong the brick, while a truly ambitious idea, would be expensive and time consuming (not to mention having to use some pretty harsh chemicals in your living space). Try a warm grey.

There's an area just inside the front door that could hold a very narrow wardrobe. That long hallway is a terrible waste of space in such a small apartment. A fold up desktop of some sort that fits flush to the wall when not in use could turn it into an office? If you had a laptop and didn't mind removing all working materials from your desk, that is.

Hi Megan, I am a lazy renovator and I would leave the tile, invest in a really cool vanity, and paint your walls an earthy tangerine shade. The tiles are in good shape and it makes for a very functional bathroom, you just have to draw the focus away from them. Drywalling a space that small wold be a fate worse than death....

I think you're talking about building the ultimate kid space, and your child will probably be the envy of all their friends (even those who live in newly built McMansions).

That red hand chair makes me wonder if Buster's gone away to Army again...