Over the next four Mondays we’ll discuss super simple, easy to do steps you can take right now to make your family room, bedroom, kitchen and bathroom a more enjoyable place to be. Today we are focusing on an inviting Family Room.

Sometimes the things that make the biggest change in a room can take just minutes. You don’t have to purchase new furniture. Just make sure you are using what you already have to it’s fullest. You know, accentuate the positives. Right Bing?

Get a fork ir scissors to try move the phone to an easier place so you can reach it!!
Good luck!!

Customer Review

3.0 out of 5 stars Roomba Fought My Living Rom, And My Living Room Won, July 15, 2008
By 31u3b1rd
I think this machine has potential, and could work for some people. I think you have to be a "neat" person already for it to function ideally.

I don’t have a lot of clutter, but I have hardwood floors and a rug in the center of the living room and a dining room set with chairs, tables, etc., but in a smaller space (the dining room is connected to the living room). So I had to "rescue" it a lot. It would get temporarily hung up on the edge of the rug (which has a higher pile), but would, if you gave it enough time, correct itself. Sometimes it would interpret the rug as a wall, I think, and this would lead to it getting "stuck" in certain areas of my living room (cleaning the same few square feet over and over again). I know it does go over its path a few times, but this really was a situation in which it was seeing the rug as an obstacle.

It did a good job picking things up, but couldn’t get into all the nooks and crannies I would with a canister vac. So, if I used Roomba, I’d have to have another vacuum for those areas. I also found that I had to move my furniture around a little, and *everything* had to be picked up off the floor. When I vacuum, I just go around these things, but Roomba would be confused by them (things like my daughter’s infant swing and play pen).

It also lost its charge rather quickly. It took two charges for it to clean my living room, and the room is not that big (maybe because it had to do so much thinking to get around my stuff).

Also, after these two cleanings, it took me about 15 minutes to clean the brushes (so I could return it). Overall, I spent MUCH more time creating an environment in which the Roomba would work, and maintaining Roomba (plugging it in to charge, cleaning brushes, dislodging it when it got stuck on something (it beeps to warn you when it’s actually stuck on the corner of something)) than I would have spent vacuuming the room myself.

That said, if I had all hardwood floors or all carpeting, a more spacious abode with furniture more spread out, it would be a nice tool to have IN ADDITION to a regular vacuum. It really does do a decent job of getting dust and pet hair up and getting into some nooks and crannies. I’d give it a try to see if it works in your environment, but if you do have a smaller space, multiple terrains (rugs & hardwood), and aren’t already very neat, or have kids and their things around, it may be more of an inconvenience than a convenience.

I also think it might be good for someone with disabilities that made it difficult to use a push vac. Even though some bending over is required, it’s not as much PHYSICAL labor as vacuuming (more time-labor though). It would function to keep things relatively clean enough until someone else could come over every few weeks and help with more detailed cleaning. For this person, though, I’d get the more expensive, self-docking model. I would consider the more expensive model for my mom, who has trouble with her knees and bending over, lots of pain, etc.

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