Sometimes you have to look back and remind yourself of all you’ve done in the last few months. Besides moving tons of furniture around and redoing the LR, FR and Mstr. Bdrm, I did a lot of cleaning.This last year I have really tried to purge and get things in order in this tiny house. We have limited storage, so I decided that I needed to get rid of tons of “stuff” and find a home and organize the space I do have. I started with the bathrooms. They can really get out of control if you don’t pay attention.
This is our hall bathroom, and as you can see there are no drawers, just two doors with a big huge open area that really became a mess.
See what I mean. Since I don’t use this bathroom, I just never opened the doors to see all this. Things were just thrown in here and I never even noticed. It started out that there were a couple of small plastic bins, and then things just overflowed. Such a disgusting mess.
$20 later and a trip to Walmart and this looks amazing. I would really have liked to have clear bins, but beggers can’t be choosy and this stores everything in a neat and orderly manner. Now I can find something if we need it, and if a guest opens the door I won’t faint.
Next came the Master bathroom We have two doors on each side of three small drawers in the middle. The same problem here, big open space full of clutter. I didn’t take a pic of this side before, but it looked just as bad as the hall bath.
This time a trip to Big Lots and I found the perfect bins to organize all of our stuff. This is DH side. (Yes, I did finally take the tags off, I was just excited to get things organized.)
This is my side. I used two of the small drawers stacked on one side to hold all of my makeup, creams, toothbrush, combs and etc. The other side just one tub to hold all the bottles and hairspray.
These small bins are pefect for all the small things and so easy to organize the makeup.
Next I moved on to the linen closet. (If you can imagine, that tiny door is what the builder called a linen closet)
So tiny it is almost impossible to store anything in here in a decent manner.
Out came everything and I threw away a ton of old towels and sheets. Then I rearranged all the things that we were currently using and now I can actually find a set of towels when I want one. All the sheet sets got folded and placed inside the matching pillowcases and they are so much easier to see and store.
The last thing was purging a ton of accessories and finding a home for what I wanted to keep, plus putting it all in one place so I could find it. This isn’t pretty, but I had the shelving and the cupboard, so this is the corner of the garage where I am storing all of my “stuff”. Most of the glass things (cloches) and breakables are in the door cupboard, the shelves hold tons of other stuff. This is also where I store my cleaning bucket, mops, broom and vacuum. The bins hold pillow covers and faux flowers. I purged 3 car loads of things that I either gave to friends or took to GW. Now my car fits in the garage, and that is fabulous.
It would be wonderful to have a huge basement or even built-in cabinets in the garage, but since I don’t this is a great solution for now. So much easier if there is a place for everything.
So have you been organizing and cleaning this year. Seems like I have seen a ton of you creating really fabulous storage spaces. You guys always inspire.
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