Week 6: Linen Closet

I know I am late and I have the audacity to inflict more poor photography on you, but I am back on the band wagon at least.

As I mentioned in past posts the only way, in my opinion, to clean up my craft room was to find permanent homes for the stuff stored there. (FYI the before picture looks particularly empty because there was a minor problem with the kitchen sink that involved all my towels that week).  My linen closet was ripe for redevelopment into new homes for my junk.

The first problem I tackled was the small stuff:

I measured my shelves and purchased a storage compartment to collect my extra makeup, spare toothbrushes and toothpaste, and other such small toiletries.  I paid a little extra for this one because it had adjustable compartments.  All of this was in my craft room in random bags and containers.  I might actually use eye shadow again now that I can find it.

The next problem was the dead space created by the tall shelves:

Notice the leaning tower of hand towels under the p?  This particular problem I solved with a shoe rack (again I carried the measurements of my shelves with me to make sure it would fit).  The shorter shelves allowed me to fit all my hand towels, extra dish towels, and wash clothes on one shelf with room to spare.

Next my cleaning supplies moved in.  I am still debating the best location for these.  In their current home anything that leaks or spills will dribble down to my towels, and if anything should fall out there is a chance of spatter hitting my face.  These would be less hazardous on the bottom shelf, but also more accessible to small hands.  I don't have children but I have friends and relatives who do. (I tend to over think things.)

The rest moved into their most logical locations.  The large toiletries (shampoo, spare hand soap, spare mouth wash, etc.) moved in next to my small toiletries.  My photo albums and memorabilia from my college band trips found homes on the top most shelf, and my bath towels found there way out of the laundry and back to the linen closet.

That only leaves one thing displaced, my spare blankets.  They moved into my craft room (it sounds like a worse idea than it is).  In its finished state the craft room will have more than one function.  One of which will be its continued existence as a storage space.  One thing that will be stored in the craft room is my luggage.  Which also happens to be the new home of my spare blankets (see not as bad an idea as it originally sounded).