• ~ ✦ 3 Weeks of Cleaning Done! ✦ ~ •
This apartment has been inhabited by many different people, as it used to house refugees, and also stood empty for long periods of time, over the years. When Slavik and I moved in around 4 weeks ago, I made it my mission to clean it from top to bottom, and to some degree renovate it.
When we got this place to ourselves, I felt uncomfortable being surrounded by other people's stuff all the time, so I asked my husband to help make it our own. He moved around a lot of furniture, including 4 giant, extremely heavy, old cupboards. Behind them was a huge gab in the wallpaper, so we put up new wallpaper there as well. We moved all the stuff that wasn't ours, into the smallest room, which now doubles as a storage and washroom.
The owner of this apartment is a hoarder, and I can't begin to describe how much stuff I had to sort through. The following 2 weeks, while I sorted it all, there was stuff everywhere in the apartment. It was a total mess.
Finally came the cleaning! We had a moth infestation + a daddy long leg infestation, and many fruit flies, and I kid you not when I tell you that I kept finding worm-infested walnuts everywhere lol. I washed everything. I washed every side of every single furniture, I washed and folded all the clothes – I washed the radiators, the window sills, the walls, and I hand-washed all the floors. I even washed the trashcans lol. This place is as spotless now, as if no one ever lived here. My hands on the side, are so raw from all the cleaning agents that they would upset Gordon Ramsey.
When we started this cleaning project, we had no idea how long we would stay here, but it has since turned out that the owner of this apartment is interested in trading with ours, next time they come to Ukraine, so we might stay here for good.
I feel so satisfied to finally be done with it all. 😮💨
When we got this place to ourselves, I felt uncomfortable being surrounded by other people's stuff all the time, so I asked my husband to help make it our own. He moved around a lot of furniture, including 4 giant, extremely heavy, old cupboards. Behind them was a huge gab in the wallpaper, so we put up new wallpaper there as well. We moved all the stuff that wasn't ours, into the smallest room, which now doubles as a storage and washroom.
The owner of this apartment is a hoarder, and I can't begin to describe how much stuff I had to sort through. The following 2 weeks, while I sorted it all, there was stuff everywhere in the apartment. It was a total mess.
Finally came the cleaning! We had a moth infestation + a daddy long leg infestation, and many fruit flies, and I kid you not when I tell you that I kept finding worm-infested walnuts everywhere lol. I washed everything. I washed every side of every single furniture, I washed and folded all the clothes – I washed the radiators, the window sills, the walls, and I hand-washed all the floors. I even washed the trashcans lol. This place is as spotless now, as if no one ever lived here. My hands on the side, are so raw from all the cleaning agents that they would upset Gordon Ramsey.
When we started this cleaning project, we had no idea how long we would stay here, but it has since turned out that the owner of this apartment is interested in trading with ours, next time they come to Ukraine, so we might stay here for good.
I feel so satisfied to finally be done with it all. 😮💨
