Linen Closet Project---Day 1!

This whole thing started a few weeks ago. I went to put my coat away and found that I was overwhelmed by the amount of STUFF in my front hall closet! I realized it is because my house keepers had no where to put our linens so they STUFFED them into the only place they could think of, the front hall closet. See our apartment is amazing, BUT there is NO Linen closet! A man must have designed it! Or someone who does not have an obsession with sheets the way I do.

Anyway.....I realized I have a HUGE poorly used basement. Daniel and I came up with a plan (btw with all my complaining he is a real partner with me in the actual work and I deeply appreciate his support) We would get a linen closet to put in the basement from Ikea or where ever.

Well I could not find anything I liked that would work. I was a little sad, thinking this project would never take off. But then I had an idea! (well Daniel and I did) we have this ugly Sterilite plastic cabinet form Home Depot that is used, but not well. We also have plastic shelving in the basement, also not used well. Why not just suck up the ugly thing for the linens and organize the open shelving so I can put everything from the closet in there?

Now, this is not a one night project, not anymore at least! In the past I would have done it all in one afternoon, been stressed, yelled at the kids, and in a week it would be in tatters. So I have broken it down into a three day process.

last night- clean out the closet!
Now I have to tell you , before I started I was sitting on the couch and I was like "uch really, this is going to suck". But how could I give up on day one! So I got up and went and did it. It took me very little time and it was done! Bam! All of a sudden! I then made a mistake, I moved on to tonights task! About 3 min in I started getting over whelmed and I thought "NO! This is for tomorrow, I am done now" I took my after picture and went and made my co worker a baby gift!

The clean out gave me energy! I felt great! Lets see how tonight goes....



Before........





After!!!!!!