Tuesday, May 6, 2008

This is the Picture

Here is a little trick that, usually, keeps me out of trouble.

Before we touch any surface or space in the environment, I take digital pictures. I stand in the middle of the room and take shots of the 4 walls and 4 corners; front shots, top-down shots, under/over, etc.

I print them all and keep copies on my iPhone. (Yes, a business perk, I have an iPhone.)

Then, I let the housekeepers loose. Let them dust, clean, wipe, steam, whatever.

When they are all finished, we put it all back the way we found it. Tada!

The Spring Blitz taught me that there is no such thing as too many pictures. I thought I took a ton of them. When it came to putting things back together, I still found myself having to figure out where things went because of where they were NOT in a picture.

Title by: Peter Gabriel

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Thanks for reminding me about this tip. My husband and I are going to have several rooms in our house repainted soon, so I'm sure we're going to be moving a lot of stuff around. I should definitely take pictures before we do that.