Closet Crusade, Part 3

Almost finished! The rest will be an evolution of placing odds and ends...

Phew...glad that is done! It took longer than I thought, especially because I continued to clutter it throughout the week. What are you motivated to organize these days?

Closet Crusade, Part 2

Hmmm...I think I am suffering from closet lust. The effort to reorganize left me looking for inspiration. I stumbled upon Everyday Minerals and an amazing assortment of dream closets:

This is beyond unbelievable!

I love the mirrored closets and how the closet and bathroom form one luxurious suite.

An office in a closet! This one is WAY more chic than my sad attempt.

Is this a closet or a store?!?

This is more realistic. There is a slim chance I could find a closet this size on Capitol Hill... I love the blue and green!

Love the pink!

...and probably the closets to what my closet will eventually look like

Maybe closet dreaming is a bad idea...

Which one is your favorite?

Do you dream about an uber closet?

Closet Crusade, Part 1

It is that time of year, Spring Cleaning. And my closet was in desperate need of some help. This was the sad state of my closet...

Note here that I had most of the space in both pictures!

Mark's summer clothes were still in boxes under our bed. It is cruel actually, how little space he has been allotted since we moved here in August. So I set out last weekend to organize the items and rectify the space.

Oh yeah, did I mention we also have our "office" in our closet?

My love of clothes and passion for paper and calligraphy = a lot of stuff in a tiny apartment & a dual functioning storage space when storage is limited. I cannot wait to have an office specifically for my paper and calligraphy some day.

Basically every space was being under utilized and in need of some serious reorganization!

The good news? While perusing the internet last weekend, I came across an amazing sale! The Container Store is having a spring sale. Plus, you can get 4% back off ALL online purchases if you shop through Ebates. Shoe boxes and sweater racks have been purchased for my closet. I cannot wait for them to arrive.

The pieces of "furniture" in our closet have been rearranged. We have two of these puppies, one with a hanging rack, one just shelves, both without wheels:

{available at crate and barrel outlet}

What space in your apartment/home could use some serious organization?

Are you going to take advantage of the CS Spring Organization Sale?

Shelf Life: Dream Kitchens

I do not currently have my dream kitchen. In fact, our apartment is so tiny, we have a miniature kitchen with shrunken appliances. Yet this doesn't stop a girl from dreaming. Here is a collage of some of my favorite kitchen inspirations. When I come across pictured I like I clip them and copy them and file them in hopes of the day that I get to design my dream kitchen from scratch. (unfortunately this means that I cannot attribute many of these images to their original location - I apologize)


P.S. This is a prelude to pictures of my actual kitchen and a recent mini renovation with my shelves!

Shelf Life

I love shelves! They are great for putting things on and can totally define a space. Living in a tiny apartment, Mark and I have MORE shelves than we could imagine, but never enough space. I am constantly searching for new and innovative shelving/storage ideas. This often brings me to incredibly beautiful and inspiring shelving solutions. So here in what I am going to call"Shelf Life" I will share some of my shelving finds with you. Keep and eye out for "Shelf Life" and I may even throw in some pictures of my own!

Here is an idea that I am seriously considering for my own apartment. I face only 2 problems: I live in a rented apartment and I don't want to invest in anything permanent that I cannot bring with me. Do you think I could do this and make it semi-permanent?

Compliments of Apartment Therapy

Anyway, I just love it! I am already calculating in my head the different places I could do this in my own apartment (and what items I could store!). Enjoy this...and what I hope will be many inspirational editions of "Shelf Life."