Well I thought for sure we’d have snow until June but look how far we’ve come in just three weeks!
April 2nd
And today….. I see grass!!
So you know what that means don’t you? I’m finally putting away the winter stuff…all of it. Enough is enough. Our front door closet is small, winter coats are bulky, you do the math.
Here is the before:
and now I’ve got my closet back:
Much better! I finally have room again for guest coats. All the winter stuff gets switched out with the summer stuff and goes into totes in my basement. The closet organizer is from Canadian Tire and was under $100.00.
So because I know you are dying to know what I keep in all my baskets….ha ha….come on I know you want to know!
Coats on the left - mommy and daddy coats
Empty space on the right - guest coats
1st white basket on top - daddy’s ball caps
2nd white basket - spare tissue packets, extra wipe packets, lip balms, spare change container
3rd basket - stroller blankets
Small blue basket - for my husband’s odd and sodds ~ aren’t I generous :)
Drawer - holds our sunglasses basket
1st yellow basket - baby’s shoes and rainboots
2nd yellow basket - middle son’s knee pads, elbow pads, shin pads, road hockey gloves ~ I got so tired of these lying around everywhere that now that I’ve got a designated space for them my son has no more excuses for not putting them away
Shelf above the yellow baskets is my diaper bag shelf
Coats bottom right - kids coats down low where they can reach them and put them away
Oh and look there is my I’m outta here shelf!
Also this side table has been switched out from winter hats/mitts for the kids to their summer hats.
Finally, although you can’t see it, beside the coats on the left hand side is a shoe caddy similar to this one:
Yeehah!! It feels so good to finally have this done….bring on the open toed shoes!!!!
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Beautiful! Do you have a shoe free home?
Robin..lol..you’d be amazed how many shoes the shoe caddy holds! Also I forgot to mention that my big kids shoes are kept on a shoe rack under the Backpack Station.
Laura
Good job, Laura! I need to get one of these shoe caddy things for my closet! :)
Great job! Doesn’t it feel nice?! It does help that you already had the closet organizer in there I bet.
It’s official - I’m coming to steal your coat closet organizer. Man I could use shelves like that in mine!
It looks great! Thanks for the ideas for the ball caps and the elbow/knee pads. Those things are a problem at our house too. I’m in the process of moving our winter stuff. I moved the snow suits (to clean the ants), but now have to move the coats.
And to your comment about will we ever stop looking at every little thing as a sign of “allergy”? I doubt it. I’m overly paranoid and probably always will be. I notice my older son is the same way. When the little guy sneezes a lot, the older boy will say “He didn’t eat something did he”? I think it comes with the food allergy territory :(
Looks great! :)
I’m finally trusting the weather to stay warm and can’t wait to hit my coat closet. I’ve taken the approach this year of only doing one box of clothes in my switchouts this year, to minimizze the clothes takeover of my bedroom floor.
I really like that closet organizer! Where did you get that?
It all looks great! :)
I am totally in a covetous state that you have a front door closet!
That is the one thing I would change about my dream house–which if i would change something maybe makes it not a dream house? Either way–i would change it about my house now, which I call the dream house.
Well done! Looks terrific! Doesn’t a clean closet feel marvelous? Thanks for the motivation.
Laura at
My Quotidian Mysteries
Awesome job!
The closet organizer is just from Canadian Tire. It cost under $100.00 and was pretty easy to install….you keep the original shelf on top.
Laura
Great project! I am in awe at the snow. Wow.
Looks terrific! I am in Newfoundland so I can relate to the snow pics!
My husband would LOVE for me to join Tackle it Tuesday! LOL I don’t have closets for our coats, and it is very, very awful with 9 people in our house. We have some hangers by our front door and a small hall with hangers in the middle of the house, which means trekking across the kitchen to put shoes and coats away. But we can’t find another solution besides adding on to the house. Which we won’t be able to afford until the kids move out!
It looks great! I finally put our winter stuff away last week and then two days later we got 7 inches of snow! I think I’ll wash it today and get it put away again. Thanks for the yummy photos!
Wow! I am so impressed! There’s even open space!
Good job! Your closet looks great!
Looks great!! From one organizing junkie to another, great job!!
Beautiful. I’ve been thinking about re-organizing my closet as well! Thanks for your tips!
hey thank you so much for helping me out! it doesnt’ look as nice as yours but it works for me!
have a great tuesday!
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Yipee, for the melting snow!!
I washed all of our snow pants and coats last week and began working on changing our mud room and front closet from winter gear to summer. Your closet looks so awesome. I need to figure out a better way to utilize the small space I have in our mud room and make things accessible for my kids.
Looks great! And you’ve given me a couple ideas for our front closet - thanks!
Wow - that looks great! I love your “outta here” shelf. I need one of those…thanks for the idea.
Wonderful job, as always. I’m impressed!
It looks clean in the first place! But great job! No more plowing snow! Yay !
Me again. I forgot to tell you that I tackled a project myself today. Check out my post…
http://imadramamama.blogspot.com/2007/04/my-kingdom-for-doorknob.html
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LOVE that closet organizing system! Everything looks great.
That is a great tackle. I think spring has come to NB too. I hope. ;o) I really need to tackle our entry closet and I may just do that now that I see how great it could look.
I love reading your blog. It helps me to think about ideas for *where* things can go in my home. But here’s my question, “How do you pack those coats up?” Do you pack them away with each person’s clothes or pack them all together? Plastic tote, space bag, big ziploc, or ???
YIPPEE! you got tons done!
Nancy, great question! I’m going to post very soon about my wall of totes in my basement where I store these types of things. Stay tuned….
Laura
You still have snow!? Ok, I think I will quit my complaining of our recent freaky weather (though come to think of it, I haven’t crabbed about it on my blog, only in person) I totally know what you mean about getting that coat closet cleaned out! I haven’t done mine yet, but I will in a week or two, once I know the warm weather is here to stay.
Great. I look forward to hearing about your wall of totes!
Thanks for sharing your closet with us! Ours is so small too, smaller than yours, I think! I always struggle with it….now I’m wondering if I should gut it and redo the whole shelving/bars, etc. Hmmm….
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