If you’re on an organizing/purging kick like we are this month, then you might find these posts helpful or inspiring!
We used The Container Store’s Elfa system in Greta’s room, and I’m go glad we did. It was easy to customize her oddly shaped closet with the storage solutions she really needed — like what to do with all of those shoes and boots! My biggest lesson in this closet was how to maximize vertical storage. I still can’t believe how much fits in such a small space.
With little ones, I’ve found it’s all about baskets and bins. They can’t fold or hang things yet, but they can still put things away. Here’s how we set Polly up for success.
I know on house listings a room is not a bedroom if it doesn’t have a closet. We actually removed the closet from Faye’s room and set her up with this little armoire. It’s the perfect size for a little girl’s wardrobe! But I’m thinking this storage solution would be really handsome in a guest room, too.
In our last house, we made the room off of our primary bedroom into a full closet/dressing room, and I still think about that room every day. If you have the space for it — I couldn’t recommend a dressing room more highly. And, we used IKEA PAX, so the ticket price was nowhere near what a custom closet system can cost! One word of caution: We tend to grow to the size of our tanks 😉 (I’m looking at you, shoes.)
We bought this antique armoire for our laundry room, and it really solved the need for a linen closet. If your hallway closet is being used for something else (or maybe it’s non-existant!), consider a big ol’ armoire for sheets and towels.
If your kids are like ours then you have a dining room table that’s a catch-all for backpacks, books, school papers, and boots. We needed a storage solution for after-school stuff and installed these lockers in our bonus room/family room. It helps that they’re right next to where the girls do their homework.
I find that fridges need storage solutions, too. In addition to the drawers that are already built in, we have containers for fresh produce, leftovers, and anything else that might be “loose.” This blog post talks about how we like to do it.
It’s those little turn tables for me 🙂 We’ve learned a few things about what we need as a family when it comes to pantry organization. Our current pantry is an amalgam of all of the pantries we’ve loved before, but take a peek at the video tour of our last pantry.
The problem is — when you stack ’em, you have to pull them all out to get the one you need. We have wire storage organizers (shh! I got them at Target!) for this part of our kitchen, and it’s making me want to host even more.
We have a custom drawer in our kitchen for lids, and it’s a real game-changer. In this blog post, we also talking about other life-affirming kitchen organization — like how we organize our knives, spices, and even our reusable water bottles 🙂 (Those Stanleys aren’t going to organize themselves!)
It’s a wonder we ever found anything in the attic before we put up these shelves and sorted all of our seasonal decor into bins. The problem with attics is that they’re mostly unfinished. Don’t let that stop you. Put together some free-standing shelves, label a few bins, and you’ll be in business.
I’m here to tell you — the secret to garage storage is mounting racks to the ceiling. The ladder is already out there! Get as much as you can off the ground and put away. Then, you can actually park the car in here, too.
You want cleaning supplies to be portable. You’re going to use them all over your house, but you don’t need to store them all over your house. Instead, get a couple of caddies that can move with you.
When our girls were smaller, we hid their toys in plain sight — in something we lovingly called the “fauxdenza.” (We loved this piece so much, we built another one in the dining room of our last house.) Of course, you can use this storage solution to organize anything, but it’s especially great for storage toys and games in common areas.