I am new to the Works-For-Me Wednesday idea, but I absolutely love it and thought it was a great way to showcase some of those hidden organizational ideas that I have in this small head of mine. Thank you to Shannon and her wonderful blog (Rocks In My Dryer- how cute is that?) for letting us participate. Be sure to visit her blog for great homemaking & parenting ideas.
Our house is a good size home, but it is one of those lovely quad homes (don’t ask me who came up with this stupid floor plan!) which means most of my space is very broken and choppy. Our lower level had an enormous closet in the living room that we originally used to store our various games and basically throw any clutter we had laying around the house into it. After some thoughtful brainstorming, I thought that it would be great to actually use the closet so that the kids had more playing room. We took down the closet doors, framed the closet with curtains, painted & floored the interior of our closet and moved the entertainment center into it. It gave us a lot more free space and took attention away from the monstrosity of an entertainment unit. Now the television is no longer the focal point and can easily disappear with a shut of the curtains.
This same idea can be applied into creating a little home office or a cute place to put your changing table and free some space up in your own home!
that is an excellent idea, frees up a whole wall!! good job
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Great idea. I could totally do that in our playroom- as there is really no need for a closet in there (and the closet doors are the cheapy kind anyway!), and I could definitely use that space… thanks for the tip!
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Very cool idea. I will have to remember that!
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I think it’s cool that you have a closet in the living room. You can never have too much storage!
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Let me tell you, the doors on ours were hideous- I mean AWFUL! One had a big hole punched through it (from the previous owner) and the other door was missing its handle. I never realized how expensive doors were until we were looking at replacing all of the closet doors and doors to the rooms. I figured I would need to be a teensy bit more creative than buying doors so this is what we came up with
Thanks for swinging by, ladies! It has been so much fun and I am going to be looking forward to this each Wednesday now…
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I had a friend do the same thing. I thought it was a great idea when I saw it, and still do! Hmmm, maybe I can turn my blanket closet into a scrapping space….
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