When we were emptying out the room for this project, I got rid of about 70% of what was in the room.

Not even close.. One of the problems was that they had pre-decided on a very specific format, size, and dimension for these photos and it was just not within the realm of possibility for me to make cleaning photos work within those, mostly.It’s kind of hard to take a really nice, book-worthy photo of something in need of cleaning, really, and sometimes the way that I make my blog photos work is by changing the shape or angle of a photo.

Or I just use the ugly photo anyway but it works because it still provides you with the info you need.But that won’t work for a book of course!.And then the other problem was that I’m not a mind reader.

There were a few photos that I thought actually turned out really nicely and would be really fun additions to the book, but the publishers really didn’t think they showed what needed to be shown for those particular parts of the book.I still maintain that those were perfect photos for the book because I’m just a fun person like that, and it really is kind of a fun book, but that’s just water under the bridge now!.

I let them know that those dimensions and particularly restrictive plans for the photos just weren’t going to make sense, and that I wasn’t happy with the photos either, so then I spent an entire weekend re-shooting a huuuuge amount of new photos to show them exactly what I thought would really work nicely and to show them what they were missing out on by not letting me just shoot the whole book with my own vision.

And they turned out great!You might be surprised at what you find if you look under your pedestal sink!

Be sure to get under toilets, cabinets, chairs, rugs, and garbage cans as well.. Let your cleaners really soak in and do their work!.When it’s time to get down to the real scrubbing, let your cleaners do the hard work for you instead!

Spray all your surfaces (sink, counters, tub, floors) with a bathroom cleaner like this Lysol.Foam Bathroom Cleaner and let it sit for about 10 minutes for full cleaning, limescale removal, de-soap-scumming, and disinfecting.