Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Day #8 - Coat Closet Organization



Coat Closet Overflow
I am still working my way through the 21 Day Getting Organized Challenge over at A Bowl Full of Lemons. The challenge for Day #8 is to clean out your coat closet. The junk from my coat closet was overflowing into the hallway. With the holidays and two sick kids I had just let everything go.  This hallway is also the door to our powder room and the access to the garage. Our coat closet is also used for overflow storage from the kitchen and as a broom closet to hold all of our cleaning equipment. I started by emptying out all of the junk and cleaning all of the dust from the floor. I went through all of the coats and put the ones we don't use in the donation pile. I ended up getting rid of over 4 bags of extra stuff from this area.  I was even able to put some other stuff into the closet, including the vacuum which didn't fit before.  Some day I would like to put some extra shelves into this closet but for now I have been just trying to get everything organized without spending alot of money.  This is Day #8 of the challenge and I think this was the hardest area yet but I think this is what I needed to get a jumpstart on the rest of the house.





Disorganized Mess

More Mess

Ahh...no more junk!

Coats Organized
Cleaning Supplies Together

1 comment:

Amanda said...

much better! great job