I took this summer off to spend time with my family, decompress from advertising life for a bit and focus on house projects that have been languishing for years.
Some people take off summer to back pack through Europe or go climb mountains. Not me, no sir! I plan exciting things like organizing linen closets.
For those of you that aren’t a tad OCD, or grew up with off-the-boat Italian mammas screaming at you to clean your room, this sounds horrible. But organizing this closet under the attic stairs has been a thorn in my side since we moved in, and gave me absolute joy to finally making it look nice. I don’t even have a real before picture. The above pic is a phase 2 purge. The previous pic would have looked like Bed, Bath and Beyond threw up on the shelves. Piles of old towels, giant bed spreads that our daughter had grown out of, a bottle of liquid plumber and a red tinsel Valentine heart decoration was mixed in with occasional holiday linens.
The “closet” is open, it doesn’t have a door per say, so the contents can be seen by all. Therefore I was even more anxious to get this mess under control, and eventually, hang a rod and sew a curtain to close it a little and look nice, if I couldn’t have a door. It’s just going to the attic, so my husband doesn’t know why I care so much. But I can see it, and it bugs me.
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| the pile to donate (this was jammed in the closet) |
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| organized |
SO phase one was going thru and matching bed sheet sets, throwing away old or donating old stuff.
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