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Laundry Room

My laundry room is just big enough for the washer and dryer. I installed some additional shelving over the appliances which works pretty well but it is open and never looks nice. Luckily, I can just close the two folding door that close in this laundry cubby, but sometimes I just want it to look nice for me. So, I think I may have finally made some progress on working to keep it clean and looking nicer. And, everything got cleaned up in the process.

Picture from shortly after I moved in…

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With some modifications over the years. These are the before pictures…

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All cleaned up. The after picture…

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I used some of my smaller canvas bins to store cleaners and a larger one on the top shelf for paper products. My cleaning kit even has a home now (the blue container on the top shelf). All my often used cleaning and laundry supplies are in easy to reach places. Oh, this is so nice!

Hallway Organization

I was finally able to get the Closetmaid 9 Cube Storage Cabinet after a few months of waiting for it to go on sale. It was easy to put together and took maybe 45 minutes total.

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In the before picture, I used a shoe storage cabinet with some shelving removed to make room for the cloth baskets. In the after picture, the new cloth cubes hold much more than the old cloth baskets and thus more can fit in a smaller space. What took the entire area in the before picture, only needs the space of the new 9 cube storage area. I am going to leave the 2 corner shelf units in the area for now, but I don’t know if I will even need them. I think they will be finding new homes.

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Even More Space Bags

Once I proved to myself that the Space Bags did so well organizing the attic, I waited until the following month to get more. And when I did, I went through my jackets, sweaters, and small rugs to fill more space bags.

Lots of sweaters fit in one of these jumbo Space Bags… Just a few shy of 40!

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Small rugs did pretty well too. I didn’t have too many but enough to make the space bag worth it. I started with more rugs but donated a lot of them knowing I would just be wasting storage space if I held onto them. I have room to expand if necessary.

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