This laundry closet is located in our school/art/computer/ family room located just off of our kitchen. This is mega prime real estate in our house. It is also our diaper changing area and where we store all of our cleaning supplies. Here is the before picture:
I emptied it out and decided that I want to continue to store cleaning and diaper changing supplies here, in addition to laundry. Everything else was to be decided.
I eliminated some redundant cleaning supplies, but this was an area where most items are actually used. I moved a lot of things from this prime real estate area to other less valuable areas. For example, refill bottles of cleaners moved to a shelf in the garage and rarely used paper napkins moved downstairs. I moved onions to the kitchen and put some nails in the wall to hang our dustpans (We have several because several children use them at the same time each day) and fly swatters. I also eliminated a lot of things from the floor area.
Finished:
Read about what our amazing friends did for us and see pictures of our remodeled laundry closet here.
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I have even taken smaller games out of their original boxes and put them into gallon size zip bags for easier storage. Even boxes of smaller games can take up too much space. I put all the bags into one med. sized container making it easier for the kids to get them out and put them away. Bigger games or games with more pieces I just left in their original boxes. This helped me fit all of our games into one cabinet.
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wow that looks really good. Now that is organization…
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Awesome job, Kimberly! Looks great!
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What a great idea to use the top of the dryer as a changing table! We have 5 children under 3 years, so for a while I actually had a changing table in the family room! (With 4 in diapers, it was worth it to save time!) Now our changing table is in the bathroom, but we’re not planning on having one when we move to a small house or apartment in the fall for my husband to start seminary. This is a great compromise! Thanks for the idea!
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Kimberly @ Raising Olives Reply:
February 18th, 2010 at 2:26 pm
Wow, 5 kids 3 and under. There are very few people who have children as close together in age as we do, but we only had 4 children 3 and under, so you blew us away.
I got this idea from a friend of mine. Previous to this arrangement we didn’t have a changing table, we just changed the babies on the floor. This has been nice to have all the things in one place and to have someplace to go when company is over.
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