It’s HERE! The kitchen reveal is finally here! I am so excited about this one! This is where I see the most changes! First I just have to tell you why The House That Clean’s itself works! I would be a liar if I said my house never gets messy! That wasn’t the point of the book. The point of the book is that it will get messy but it takes minutes to clean up instead of hours! It reduces the clutter spots by 90%!!! Clutter and mess take up your precious energy! Close your eyes and think of the messiest most cluttered spot in your house…… do you feel tired just thinking about it? I did! Now that we use the HTCI system I am free to be creative and have more time to do what I want or need to do! Picking up the house is not a chore because it takes minutes not hours!! Okay obviously I am excited about this and I want to disclaim that I make no profit from telling you about “The House That Cleans Itself”, I am simply a VERY happy customer! Mindy Starns Clark makes the process easy to get your house in order and motivated to follow through! 🙂 So are you ready for this?!
The Kitchen Before…
I am completely depressed!!! Okay that is a little over dramatic but I am BUMMED out!!! I cannot find any before pictures of the insides of my cupboards and I really though I took some!!! The best I can do is if you follow this link you will see an idea of what our cupboards looked like. Not saying those are awful cupboards but it wasn’t working efficiently for me. Remember my activity closet before pics?! Well think of that in the kitchen! 😉 If I ever find the before pictures, that I thought I took, of the cupboards, I promise to update this post and let you know about it 😉
The Kitchen After…
Videos…
I took these videos last night and I was WIPED OUT! So what you see is what you get! 🙂 Hope you enjoy!
Pictures…
Just need to say that I realize the fridge and wall may look a little funny in one of these pictures, I am not comfortable posting them without blacking some parts out because I have a lot of family photos on them and I prefer to keep that private thanks! 😉
Mindy speaks of using a labeler, I LOVE MINE! Can you tell? 🙂 Isn’t the above pics of the baking cups CUTE?! Love that idea and I thought of it on my own! Yippie! I do hope you enjoyed this reveal and much as I have enjoyed making it! I will post more reveals in the future just keep coming back for more! If you are new to Strive For Progress then be sure to check out the “Dark and Dirty” Category for more reveals! Please comment below and tell me what you like! Ask me questions if you have any as well! Thanks! 🙂
Strive For Progress! ~Mae
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Did you get all the containers from the container store online? And how much did you spend on the containers? I love this reveal! Soooo organized, elegant and clean!!
YES! I did 🙂 http://www.containerstore.com/shop/kitchen/foodStorage/jarsTerrines?productId=10011037&N=74177 and http://www.containerstore.com/shop/kitchen/foodStorage/canisters?productId=10007363&N=74062&Nao=20 and then canning jars you should be able to find in any store that sells groceries or places like Target and Walmart 😉
Love the canning jar idea! I need some solutions for my pantry. The shelving is at a horrible spacing so there’s a lot of wasted space. It’s all a work in progress right?? Nice work Mae!
Thanks! I love the jar idea too because it’s cheap and neat! 🙂 You can do it!!!
I am very delayed in my response to this reveal, but I loved it and longed for the energy to carry out some of your ideas. Although I am a bit mystified by your large fleet of crockpots and jealous of all your cupboard/pantry space. (And is it just me or did you used to have a Blendtec blender?)
I must thank you though. Because as I queasily watched your reveal videos (thank you morning sickness) my sweet hubby was paying more attention than I realized. And apparently was inspired.
The next day he set to cleaning, purging and organizing our kitchen. I cheered nauseously from the couch. I figured I’d have to wait a few more months for nesting to kick in before that would get done around here! LOL Well done Mae! You inspired progress at my house! Hooray!
Whaaahoooo!!! I am so excited to hear you are pregnant again! Altho at the part you are in I am sure you are not so thrilled. UGH how I HATE the dark days of morning sickness! I hope it passes for you quickly! I am also so excited it inspired your hubs to work in your kitchen! That is awesome! 🙂 Brownie points to him! hehe I love you and keep me posted on how you are doing! xoxoxo
I want my kitchen to look like this! On my to do list… I need to budget for some containers and jars. I’d love a label maker too. Just looks so neat and organized. My biggest problem area is the spice cupboard, have to shift and dig through them all to find the one I want. Would be so nice to have uniformity!
Thanks for inspiring me 🙂
Thank you! There are many ways to save money to do that too! You could use smalled canning jar (can’t remember their size something like 4-6oz?) for spices, cheap!! 🙂
WOW!! I love what you did with your kitchen organization great job. I just started organizing mine this weekend even though it is not as big as yours I am going to do it in section just to keep my sanity LOL!!!.
Great job I love all of your jars that you used for your powders and spices.
Today I posted the first part of the organization later this week I will post a second part. Would love for you to stop by.
Take care
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Thank you! I will definitely stop by! I appreciate all your kind words! You will LOVE LOVE LOVE your kitchen once it’s all done! I have been encouraging readers to send me before and afters pics, let me know if you would be interested then it will link to your post! You can email me at info {at} striveforprogress {dot} com 🙂