welcome back friends I'm Andrea Jean today we are tackling this basement
we're gonna do a ton of other stuff too like windows we're dusting we're doing a
ton but I just wanted to show you this basement because the transformation is
gonna be so stinking gratifying but before we get into that today's video is
a collaboration with my dear friend here on YouTube and on Instagram Rosa from
Graham life her and I have connected for quite some time now she is the sweetest
soul she should have way more subscribers she's just such a genuine
person I can't get enough of her if you are not aware of who roses please check
her out everything is gonna be linked in the description below here she also does
cleaning and organizing and that's how we found each other so I'm so grateful
to have found her to have met her and to continue our relationship and and let
her know that I sent it if you go on and check out her videos like I said here
we're starting in the basement I thank my kids often times for creating
such a mess because it gives some awesome content here on YouTube but
first speed I have some coffee first you know how your girl likes her coffee
getting caffeinated I could use an extra boost of motivation because literally I
cleaned for about three and half hours during this cleaning motivation video so
the next thing that i'm doing here is i'm taking this play kitchen upstairs my
kids hardly ever play down here in this case they did one day they came down
here just terrorized everything but I brought that play kitchen upstairs so
that my baby could play with it all of my other two kids love that kitchen
played with it and so I wanted the baby to also have a chance with that and he
has been loving it I think it's one of those toys that I'm gonna say for when I
have grandbabies I know that's crazy to say but my mom has saved some toys for
my own kids and it's just so cool to see them playing with them and it's just
really fun so I think that play kitchen is going to be one of them if you're new
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right I'm gonna be popping in out here I'd love to do it
and I want to know when the comments below if your kids do this so my
daughter there's a bag or a purse or something to put items in she will find
every single item that she can fit in that purse so I often tried to hide the
purses because it's such a pain and putting everything back away where I
found it so I decided to put all the purses and bags in our other playroom
because the kids hardly ever go in there I know it sounds terrible but I just
like to save myself a little time and if she's really wanting one of those purses
in the bag she will definitely find it but let me know in the comments your
kids do this as well or is it just right
now I'm just praying some carpet deodorizer this for me makes vacuuming
even more enjoyable I'm one of those weirdos I really love vacuuming but when
I get to put this stuff on it makes it more fun to suck it up and it just
smells so lovely also the previous owners had two big dogs I believe so
there are times I can definitely smell the dot coming through so I'm trying a
variety of products here to see if we can get that out but in time we'll get
some hard wouldn't go in here but carpet is definitely nice when you have young
kids when you're rolling or rolling rolling around on the floor and just
playing down on your hands and knees at least for me anyway
this playpen here has been such a gift I don't know why I didn't use it sooner
but my baby loves to get in with my five-year-old and three-year-old and
they get frustrated because he just crapped stuff and you know he's just
wanting to get in there so he will play nicely in that pen ninety percent of the
time which is really nice so everyone's happy I'm also if I need to take a
shower I can put him in there and so far he's content I know a lot of kids hate
going in there and I'm sure times gonna come when he he rebels and he says get
me out of here I want to be with everyone else that I'm loving that
playpen so here we are in our I guess basement hallway my office is there at
the end you'll never go in there just because of my job and confidentiality
reasons but I often hide stuff in this hallway that need to be put away on the
right hand side there is a storage closet my one of my favorite places in
my house and then on the left hand side there is like a cap room it's another
storage closet but we have some boxes the cat litter box the cat food in there
in our cozy little corner that she comes in and out of
now I'm doing something a little extra here I'm gonna go ahead and hang this
print there is no rhyme or reason for it I've had this for several years now
they've just been sitting along the wall if you've been watching my cleaning
videos for some time and I finally decided to do something about it I don't
have much decor down here for a variety of reasons one we are gonna be
renovating our house hopefully in the next couple of years and I don't want to
buy stuff just to buy stuff and when you renovate I want to make sure the decor
that I get matches the aesthetic so I'm just using what I got here I don't want
to spend extra money on stuff that doesn't need to really be spent that
could be you know doing something more fun so I hate excuse me I hung that
picture and then you're gonna see here I do a couple of other extra things here
in my bathroom I've decided during my big cleaning days which are Mondays and
Tuesdays I'll set aside a couple hours to get all those extra things done I'm
gonna do little odds and ends that I've been putting off like hanging that
picture so I'm looking forward to that just because whenever I do cleaning I do
all the typical things but then then I just keep ignoring all those other
things like hanging pictures or putting frames and pictures so I'm looking
forward to that here we are in our other playroom we call this the color room and
I can still play in here that often it's definitely it could be used better a
better place for space now it's just a great storage place to put all the kids
toys the previous owners had a workout room in here and I think as the kids get
older I'm not sure what I will do with this space but for now it's just the
color room
you might have seen before we went into that color room the basement was all
organized but you know how it goes cleaning with kids they're right behind
you taking everything out but at least it's deep cleaned it's vacuumed I'm
gonna be dusting here in a little bit but it's so funny it reminds me of I
think a meme I had seen here at my mom cleaning and then her kid oh right
behind her taking everything out of the jar but that's that's really how it goes
here we are in the bathroom I'm gonna get this all cleaned up I'm using a new
product mrs. Myers you all this is the first time that I have used mrs. Myers
cleaning products this is the honeysuckle one and it smells so good
where have you been all my life mrs. Myers I was trying to use a product that
I had on hand already and I'm still gonna try doing that but I got a gift
card from one of my dear friends here on YouTube and Instagram Olivia Erick's and
if you don't know her be sure to check her out I'm gonna also link her youtube
channel here in the description she does cleaning and organizing as well but she
gave me a gift card for Target when I reached 1,000 subscribers so thank you
so much Olivia also I'm gonna be cleaning out the shower with another new
product this is a mint one from method and it smells delicious I was just
looking forward to cleaning so that I could use these phenomenal products here
I will definitely repurchase this one again I'm just reading the instructions
on the back because it often will tell you how long to let the product sit and
I'm terrible about that because I'm so impatient but it does help to use the
product as it's directed
you may notice here I didn't open one half of that shower door and that's
because it's stuck the rollers broke on it so I'm leaving it as is it the door
will move over but it just wasn't worth it to me at this time
I'm also understanding that when we do remodel I want to get a showerhead
that's removable so that I could spray all it down because it was really tough
trying to get it rinsed out so I think when I take a shower next that's what
I'm gonna try to get in there and just kind of rinse everything off again it
made a huge mess there so that towel there to clean everything up was really
handy
you may see three tiny little bottles of lotion there on the counter by the clock
and those are products that I'm trying to use up that I had gathered from
around my house in storage totes just in drawers so just trying to make use of
the products that I have before I buy out out some new things you can see
that's a theme here in my life I like to use what I have and work with it this is
another sign that he had had in some previous homes so I thought I would just
hang it there in the bathroom just give it a pop of color a little something and
nothing fancy also here in the wall I'm noticing that there's a ton of gunk and
I think again that was from the previous owners we've been here about a year but
it smelt really nice to get the geranium set and I know I misspoke earlier it's
not honeysuckle its geranium off the wall and when I kept walking past that
door later on after this cleaning routine it just it was it smelt so
delicious now I'm gonna go ahead here and dust everything up
well I'm dusting here I realize this is probably a good time to restock those
containers and in them hold all of my son's diapers creams wipes anything
potty related just thinking about this once
it's potty trained I'm not quite sure what I would put in those little bins
maybe more toys books I'm not quite sure but it's been a really great way to hold
diapers and make it look just a little bit more I guess decorative now heading
up here to get the top of our mantle all dusted off you all we've never used this
fireplace I'm hoping this winter we will actually use it it's a wood-burning
fireplace and part of the reason being is we have small kids that would go up
and touch it so I'm going to come up with a solution if you have any ideas of
what we could do maybe there's I don't know there's some sort of sealant or
anything you could put over the doors that exists that helps keep heat out I'm
not quite sure if you if you have any ideas please let me know we'd love to
get that going here this upcoming winter which I cam not ready to think about but
it's coming
if some of you might be wondering to why we have pillows and a basket in front of
the fireplace stores and it's because the baby likes to pull the handles and
pinch his fingers in there so out of sight out of mind that's why they're
there and before when I would do cleaning videos I would move it put it
back just to make it all nice and organized and how it normally is but I
got so sick of moving it and 100% of the time it's sitting right in front of the
door so that's why it's there now I'm doing something also a little extra here
today I'm getting down by the floorboards and when I'm down here I've
done this once before I can still see a little dog hairs from the previous
owners so we're getting that sucked up as best as I can here
so since I brought up this play kitchen I'm also realizing that it's pretty
dingy and full of dust I'm just giving them good wipe down with these
antibacterial wipes I love these because you can just quick grab them wipe things
down and making it look as nice as I can I love keeping things tidy and organized
so that they last for a long time so it's nice to get that cleaned up alright
now it's time to empty this this is disgusting this is all the stuff that
came off of my carpet and I filled this up pretty much about every time we
vacuumed and we don't wear shoes in the house so it's just amazing what gets
trapped all that disgustingness in the carpet something else a little extra
here today I'm all about the extra I am cleaning these the windows here on our
front door trying to make them look a little bit more shiny this isn't
something I do very often but it definitely felt I'm really nice to get
it done
so now that I got the inside done I figured it's time to get the outside I
want to thank you so much again for joining me here today also be sure to
check out Graham life in the description below I'd love for you to show her some
love and I appreciate you being along with me here today it's just way more
fun it's like a friend a girlfriend and thank you so much have a great week
you