Our house was built in 1955. It's roughly 1700 square feet on our main floor, so it's rather small. One of the many positives, though, is our great amount of storage space. Our hallway has a cleaning closet and two full-sized closets, one we use for a coat closet (the other cedar-lined closet is mine).
My lovely husband has many hobbies. Therefore, we need to store gear for kayaking, skiing, hunting, etc. Once we factor in all of the seasonal things we need to outfit a family of five for everyday living, it creates a lot of stuff.
Our coat closet used to look like this.
It wasn't bad - and we did have enough space for what we had, but it was impossible to find anything in that huge bin. Good luck to anyone trying to find a matching pair of gloves. Plus, it looked pretty ugly.
So, I utilized some upper cabinets that we had in our garage, and stole some baskets from the bathroom. Now we can easily find our boots, gloves (Rob has at least fifteen different pairs for various activities), hats, and scarves. I'm hoping to make this our seasonal area - switching warm weather gear (sunscreen, towels, goggles, etc.) for our cold-weather gear. It does look mildly better and it was the best I could do with what I already owned!
Looks tons better and like its going to be a heck of a lot easier to find stuff in a hurry!
ReplyDeleteMud rooms must be a northern hemisphere thing because we don't have them here. Maybe that's because we don't have much mud?
Way to go on making do with what you had. I think it worked out great!
It looks much nicer and much easier to find things.
ReplyDeleteNo mud rooms here either, no snow, so no need for all the coats, boots, gloves and hats!