Hi guys. Welcome back to my channel and to an undecorated and clean with me. Today I am taking
down Christmas, putting all of our decorations away and just giving everything a really good
clean. I've also got some new storage for our decorations that I wanted to show you guys and
it just felt really good to do this because as you know, I put up our decks very early at the
beginning of November. So I was so ready to take it all down, have that kind of neutral canvas
in our house again. And we also had family stay over the holidays, so I really needed to change
all of the bedding, wipe everything down. It just felt really messy. We've hosted so much,
had so many people around, so it definitely needed a good clean. So I hope you really
enjoy this video. I hope it inspires you if you haven't already had a New Year's clean.
If you do like it, give it a big thumbs up. And if you're new here, I would love you to
subscribe for more content like this. But this is a bit of a before situation. As you can see,
there's some presents everywhere. I need to change all of the Christmas bedding.
This is where my niece and nephew stayed. They came over for 10 days with my sister
and that was so nice. So this is the room they were in. So I need to change again,
the bedding, give everything a clean. I've been hanging laundry literally everywhere
because the prices have gone up on our tumble dryer. So everywhere you look, there seems to
be laundry at the moment. So I'm going to try and put all of that away. This is our utility
room at the moment. I'm also going to do some more laundry and I just need to do an extreme clean.
But first off, I think I will actually start downstairs and take down this family tree.
I talked about it in my decorate with me, but this is very much the tree where all of the kids
homemade ornaments are. It's my favorite, I love it so much. Everything on this is really precious.
And this is the storage that I bought for this year. So I got three tree bags, two smaller
Christmas bags, and this massive baubles bag, which is almost like a double one. There's so much
that they can hold and it comes with these little cardboard inserts. So you just put it together,
fill it up with decorations, and then you put another piece of card on top of it like that. And
then again, fill up each layer. This double bag fit all of our decorations that are on this tree.
So I'm just going to start by taking all of the decks off, putting them into this storage.
It's funny how the boys, as you can see ones on the left there, they were so excited to help me
decorate. Not as excited to help me undecorate. So I'm just going to take it all off and put it
away. And I also meant to say in the intro that in this video I'm also going to show you that our
new couch finally arrived. It did actually come in time for Christmas as well. So I'll
show you that. And there's also a few updates in the boys' playroom as well. They got a big
Christmas present, which if you follow me on Instagram you will have already seen it. But
I will show you that as well in this video. But just going to layer all of the decorations
in here and then also pack up the tree skirt, which you can see there to the left as well.
Everything on this tree, as I said, fit into this box, which was brilliant and just such a
nice way to store it. I'll link all of these in the description down below if you want to
check them out or buy them as well. Once the baubles are off, all that's left to do is to
take the lights off as well. We had this tree for years. It's a fake one and I know we'll have it
for many more. It's a seven-foot tree I believe. But we also have a second one in our front room,
which is a pre-lit tree. And if we ever replace this one, I would totally get a
pre-lit one just to save us this job of taking the lights off. Whenever we do this though,
we do wrap it round a gift wrapping roll just to keep it organized and that seems to really work.
But now this is one of the bags that I bought again just on Amazon. I think
they come either six foot or seven and a half foot. So this is a seven and a half foot bag.
But the tree obviously breaks down into two pieces so you just squeeze in. We put the lights in the
stand in so it's all in that bag. So it feels nice and organized because in the past we've just been
trying to put it back into the box it arrived in. And that's worked for a few years, but now the
box is getting really worn down. So we were like, "Let's just invest in a couple of these Christmas
tree bags." Even though it's a fake tree, it has shed loads and excuse those wires. We're still in
the process of renovating. We're actually going to build some cupboards in this area very soon.
We're going to almost make it like a bit of a boot room because it's close to the hallway and it's
quite, it's close to the front door and it's quite a wide area. So we thought it would be great to
use for storage because the amount of hats and coats and boots and shoes that we all have is
crazy. Anyway, that is the first tree taken down. Next up I'm going to get my husband, Matt to help
me put away this dining room table. This year we hosted, because most of our renovations are done
and we had 18 people for dinner. It was 11 adults and seven children. So we knew that was happening.
So we saved this dining room table for the purposes of that. So we have a new table, which
you can see to the right there, which sits 12. And then we also had this table and it was just
luck that they were the exact same level. So it really worked to make a long table. So we had
the kids on one side and then all the adults down this side. But we're going to put that
away. We can easily just take the legs off and we're going to stick it into our garage in case
we ever need it again for something like this. This was our centerpiece, it's seven foot long,
so I bought another one of these Christmas tree bags for it and we had to bend it but it worked.
And then I'm also going to put in a garland as well because there's quite a bit of room left in
this bag. So then I'm just going to zip that up. And then that's kind of this room undecorated.
So now I'm going to go upstairs and I'm actually going to put some laundry on. I thought I could
get all of the bedding going and then while that's going I could undecorate another room. So starting
out in our room, I'm just going to take all of the sheets off and then move to the rest of them. And
I think I'll give you a break from me talking for a minute and I'll play you some music.
(Singing). Okay, so that is Caleb's bedroom, all
undecorated. I put up fairy lights in there this year, his little bunting, which you would've seen.
And that is actually the room that my sister stayed in, and then our
kids bunked in together. So I just wanted to give it a really good clean, do the bedding,
wipe everything down and it feels a lot better now. I also vacuumed in there
and by the time I did all of that, the first load of laundry with the sheets was done. So
I'm just going to hang that up in here. We put some hooks on the walls in here so it's easy to
hang sheets. And then I'm also going to put in a second set as well. And another place, which is
amazing to hang sheets, especially in the winter. It's quite rainy here in the UK at the moment.
But our new bed is perfect for hanging sheets up. If I hang them here during the day, they're done,
nice and dry by the evening, so I'm just going to hang it there. And then I'm also going to
go downstairs and I actually put our Ruggable runners in the wash. Ruggable, if you don't know,
they're very thin carpets that Velcro to this base and it makes them feel thicker. But the best
thing about them is you can easily chuck them into the washing machine whenever you need to.
So I did that because we've had so much traffic over the holidays and they really wash up. Well,
sometimes I look at them and they look a bit gray, so I'll wash them and they come out so much nicer.
So now that they're all washed and dried, I'm just putting them back onto the Velcro
base and I vacuumed them as well because for the day that I've been washing them,
the base has still been done. And things like kinetic sand, fluff,
just general dirt has attached itself to the Velcro. So I just vacuum it and that seems to work
really well. This is definitely easier to put back on with two people. Normally I do it with Matt,
but he actually wasn't here at the time that I put them back. And now that they're back down,
I'm also going to vacuum The rest of our living area, as I said, it's got quite messy. There's
been loads of people here, lots of people eating. There's been kinetic sand and loads of fun with
new presents. So we've really needed a good vacuum. So I'm just going to run around this
whole area and do that. (Singing).
And now I wanted to show you that our new couch has finally arrived. You're not seeing it at
its best because so many people have sat on it and I've had throws on it as well during
the holidays. But I'm going to actually take them off. We're having friends over tomorrow
for New Year's Day. So I wanted to take them off, wash them, give it all like a bit of a
fluff up and zhuzh where the kids have been sitting on it for ages. These throws have
been brilliant though because we have got a cream sofa, even though we've got three kids
and a dog. I know we're mental, but we feel like they're old enough to do this now and
we're really pleased with how it's turned out. It took 15 weeks to arrive so it was very much
an exciting moment when it finally arrived and it was actually before Christmas, which was amazing.
So I'm just fluffing up the cushions. They are very chopable and as you can see,
the dog has no respect for the fact that I've taken the throws off. She's just on the couch.
But that's our couch. And then this is the boys' playroom for Christmas. They got a pool table and
a table tennis like topper thing and they've been using it loads and so have the rest of
the family. It's been so brilliant. But in here I've managed to find places in our storage for
all the presents. Our storage is from Ikea, but I'm just going to give it a quick wipe down. And
that is pretty much all I'm going to do in here. Then I'm also going to take down our garlands. We
have in the stairs. I attach them with zip ties, so I'm just going to cut them off.
And then we also have another one upstairs as well. I'm going to take them down, package them
away for next year. I don't know if I should get new ones. These are very natural ones. I feel like
every year more and more falls off of them. And I don't know if they need replacing now. Anyway, I'm
going to keep them see how I feel next year. And then I'm also going to take down everything in our
front room. In here, we just have a quite simple pink and white tree. Most of the decorations are
from Cox & Cox and I have a smaller box, the other storage that I showed you guys earlier.
So I'm just going to take all of that off, put them away and then put this tree away as well.
(Singing).
This is how Matt took the tree bag to the garage.
But that is pretty much everything undecorated. The only other thing I did was take down our hot
chocolate station at night. I did this at night because I knew the kids would
not want to say goodbye to it. So that's why this footage is very dark. But anyway,
thank you so much for watching. I hope you enjoyed it and I'll see you in my next one.