Week 16: The Hall Closet

What a cluster of crap!  This is the tiniest closet every and we have it packed full of stuff.  Most of the stuff we didn't even use or know was in there.  Plus I had three big blankets/quilts/comforters that needed added!  Basically I pulled out a about a dozen bath towels (really?  who needs that many??) that don't match our current bathroom anymore and we weren't using, a few sheet sets that don't match anything anymore, and some other items that actually should live in other places in the house.  The closet organization is still tight, and you probably can't tell much of a difference, but I know exactly what is in there and where it is... and it is all stuff we use!  Woohoo!  Mission accomplished!

 

BEFORE

                                                               AFTER

Week 15: The Nursery, Part 2 (the final part!)

Our project this week was to finish up the nursery, get all the furniture in, artwork hung, etc.  Mission accomplished!  Here are the final pics.  Black boxes are covering where baby's name is on the wall until we announce her name.

Week 14: The Guest Room/Treadmill

Late in posting these next few projects!  This one was all about making room in our guest room for our treadmill.  The treadmill formerly lived in what is now the nursery.  Then when we moved it out to start working on the nursery it lived in the doorway to our living room.  Not good!  The treadmill is huge and we have no place to put it in this house other than the basement, where we won't use it.  So I decided to reorganize our guest room and see if we could fit it here.  It worked!  It's not a layout I love, but it works for now.  I turned the bed so that it runs against the wall, more like a sofa, and moved the desk down.  That left a good amount of floor space for the treadmill to live.  Also part of the project this week was putting away all of the crap that had accumulated on the desk from cleaning other rooms and moving baby stuff out of this room.  I have no before picture so you'll have to take my word for it!  :)

Week 13: Bedside tables

Everyone has that one drawer that accumulates random junk, right?  (just one, if you're lucky :)  )  Well ours are our bedside table drawers.  Don't know where to put it?  Shove it in that drawer!  So this week's project was to clean out those drawers, put things where they actually went, throw out trash, and organize only what needs to be kept in those drawers.  It was a fairly quick project, which we needed for this week because we had a lot of other baby projects going on.  It's nice to be able to open and shut our drawers easily without things sticking out or getting stuck.  :)

Week 12: The Nursery, Part 1

Well this was/will be a multi-week project.  The goal this week was to finish the painting/carpeting/etc so that we could get furniture and "stuff" moved in.  We did that and also managed to get the crib and dresser put together.  We got all of baby's "stuff" moved in from the guest room (and other various rooms it had begun to accumulate) and got it all organized!  We are still waiting on the glider and the changing table before we can decide on exact furniture placement and therefore decorate, but that will hopefully happen this week.  In the mean time, the closet, book case, and dresser are all organized and ready to go!  Most of the changing table items are also organized and ready to go when the changing table gets here.  Hopefully next week we can put the final touches on the room, decorate, etc!

We opted to take out the clothes bar in the closet and put in these two shelving units that we'd purchased previously.  It gives us a lot more storage for her stuff, as well as use a few shelves for our (Chet's) stuff.  The bottom three shelves on the left is ours/will be ours.  The rest is hers!  Down the road when she has more clothes that need hung, we'll re-evaluate and maybe take one shelving unit out.

A lot of the stuff being stored in here now are things that we aren't using yet (bumbo, breast pump, bouncer, jumperoo, etc).  In the pink bins are additional crib bedding items, shoes, and nursing supplies.

In the three drawer unit I have larger size clothes.  The first drawer is 6 months, the second drawer is 9 months and up, and the third drawer is holiday clothing.  To the right, I still found a place to hang the few items she has that *need* to be hung up.

Blankets and those pink bins, previously mentioned.

The dresser has four drawers.  The top drawer is baby legs, hats, hair bows, mittens, and socks/booties.  If we find it gets too messy, I'll add plastic bins or dividers to separate things.

The second drawer is all our newborn size items.  Long sleeve kimono style shirts, pants, outfits, short sleeve onesies, long sleeve onesies, and sleepers.

Third and fourth drawer are all 0-3 months stuff.  Two stacks of onesies, onesies that go with specific pants, pants, and shorts.

Outfits and sleepers.

The book case has all of her books, plus four empty bins for things I'm sure will need storage later, and one bin for toys and one bin for burp clothes/pacifiers/etc.

Toys!

Our cloth diapers (not yet prepped), cloth wipes, and medicine-y stuff for the changing table when we get it.

Week 11: The Front Closet

This week's project was a relatively easy/quick one, but a much needed one.  The more stuff we threw in that closet as we moved in and found more stuff, the less organized it became.  We also didn't have enough bins for winter stuff like hats, scarves, gloves, etc.  And we had too many items in there that we were no longer using.  On the top shelf we now have a bin for my purses, a bin for gloves/mittens, a bin for hats/ear muffs, and a bin for scarves.  In the hanging shoe racks I tried to organize the shoes by type and owner to make them easier to put back in the right spot (my work shoes, chet's work shoes...my sandals, chet's sandals, my tennis shoes, chet's tennis shoes...and so on).  The bottom crate is canvas bags.  In addition to dirt, I also cleared out a pretty big pile of no longer needed stuff for the summer garage sale (purses, shoes, etc).  Week 11:  COMPLETE.  Now on to week 12, which is our big project that we actually began in week 11... THE NURSERY!

Week 10: Clearing out the Nursery and a few odds and ends

This week our goal was to find a home for the rest of the crap in what will be the nursery...and organize our computer/electronics bin.  The bin consisted of one giant clump of cords, and a bunch of CDs and other random stuff that we could never find when we needed.  

We also managed to find homes for the rest of the stuff in the future nursery.  Much of the stuff has been part of previous weeks' organizational projects, as you've seen...but we still had some last odds and ends.  We will be keeping one shelf in the closet in the nursery with a few items.  We moved more long term storage stuff and household decorations  not currently being used to the basement.  We added a new bookshelf to our bedroom for baseball and civil war books.  We moved antique books to the living room in two different places.