This weekend was the best ever full of organizing. Having my work space and home well-organized makes me the ultimate Blue Happy. I like to know that everything has a place and there is a place for everything. We moved into this house 8 years ago come this July 4th. We moved out of our big family dream home and down sized. Our first-born was off to college and our last born was a Sr. in high school. Down sizing sounded so wonderful, less rooms to clean, less mess to keep under control and less expenses to cover. Greg and I were so in love with idea until we started to settle into the new downsized homestead. For the most we had room for all that we kept, owned and otherwise refused to give up. Then it happened, we started to notice there were things that we once had a space for but now found it awkward to place.
In my old house I had this amazing laundry room that housed all my cleaning supplies. All the mops, brooms, fan dusters and so on. I even had a closet for the vacuum cleaner and carpet cleaner. Not in this house, you have heard me complain about the pass through laundry room from the garage to the kitchen. There is NO storage anywhere but over the machines in the cabinet. No storage for the vacuum, brooms, mops and other long cleaning apparatuses. Outside my back door in the garage I had this hanging thing that all my supplies hung on. Always falling and getting tangled up I knew I had to change this. The vacuum just sat in the corner of the guest room until we needed it. It never really had a home until now.
A few weeks back someone called me about an old wardrobe they wanted to get rid of. It was large, heavy and bulky. These pieces aren’t really used much anymore. Homes these days are built with ample storage and closets. I wanted to repurpose it so it could live a restored life for many more years. It wasn’t a solid piece by that I mean it came apart in several pieces and that is what gave me the idea. The two storage cabinets on each side became my cleaning supply closet. The center of the piece was covered by a long mirrored door. When dismantled the mirrored door becomes a beautiful long mirror to lean (an attach for safety) on the wall. I will be showing you how that was finished out on my Tuesday blog. It really is going to be stunning. The back piece of the wardrobe was this beautiful solid old wood barn style. I can’t wait to take it to Waco to use it as a display piece in my booth at Cameron Trading Company. It will add so much to the wall to display beautiful Blue Happy pieces. There was very little left after we sent parts and pieces in all different directions to be repurposed into other pieces of furniture. What small pieces were left are being stored in my wood stash for later use.
I’m in the process of a complete makeover to our garage. This cabinet is part of that makeover in organizing our space. We hope to finish that up this weekend and share that newly organized space with you on April 16. Part of this make over will be to paint out this cabinet in white to match the other organized area’s. So for now I’m just sharing how this new/old recycled piece has changed how my garage looks. How it makes everything have a place.
That beautiful mirror that will be on the Tuesday’s blog will be at the Sidewalk sale at Doc Holliday’s 113 S Birmingham this Saturday April the 14th.
