Sweet Baby Girl Summer Cleanup

The house gets trashed fast: sandy footprints on the floor, spilled lemonade on the counter, towels dumped over every chair. You work room by room, wiping counters, sweeping sand back outside and tossing wet towels in the hamper before anything else can happen.

Once a room is clean you switch to decorating it for the season, picking beach-themed rugs, striped curtains and shell-shaped lamps to match. The cleaning and decorating swap back and forth the whole way through, so tidying never turns into a long checklist.

It plays more like a fast cleanup game than a straight decorating one, since messes keep showing up in rooms you already finished and pull you back to fix them.