conundrum...um...um

Almost a year into owning my own home, I find myself facing a fork in the road. Make that a few.

I have so many ideas on what to do and how I want things to look.

Let's start with my back room.
It's the size of a small bedroom and houses the washer/dryer and water heater. It was an add-on to the house, adding a whopping 150 sq. feet to our miniscule abode - bringing the total to 850 :).
It is also 2 feet lower than the rest of the house with a mini-stairway. And that said, I mean literally 2 steps.

The problem? Everything we didn't want in the house has gone in there. Old tools. Prints. Junk. Make-up galore (I'm rolling my eyes at myself) and Clothes. Clothes, clothes, clothes. It is completely disorganized. I am sure that we do almost 1.5x the laundry we should because clean gets mixed in with dirty and it all goes back in.

We currently have two of these:


and one of these:















because we literally have no room in our tiny bedroom to use it. It does get a little use, but I have to admit that it is awkwardly placed and a little too big.

I'm thinking this will do -

We have the same one in the living room on it's side to hold records and it's really handy. I am thinking place it lengthwise and use these little baskets to sort clean laundry.



Before I tackle a trip to Ikea I first need to sort, toss and organize the room - and of course I am making lots of progress by sitting in front of the computer and posting about it ;)



Another project that I am inspired by is a mini shelves project in Ready Made magazine - I want to have clusters of dvd's in the corner above our TV - it will get them out of the way and give a little color to the bland walls.


Alright, enough dragging - time to clean.