I've recently undergone a surge of "lets get things organized!"
I decided that I needed a new dresser for my closet and that my closet overall needed to be redone. I measured everything and then scoured over ikea's website designing and planning for a new closet organizer system. It's hard, with my closet, as it's got a sloped ceiling and it is about 7 feet wide but only 110cm tall at it's lowest point. Pre-designed closet organizers have never worked due to it's silly dimensions.
I went to ikea, bought all that I needed to and then took it home and built it. The dresser was easy. The organizer part, not so much. The whole thing consisted of a table top, with a wire rack and a shelf below and a long shelf above the table top.
It all went down hill when I realized I didn't have a level and both the floor and the ceiling are crooked. Also the wall is old plaster and board (the joys of a 123 year old house) and thus it's hard to square anything up.
My shelf is a bit slanted. The rest, thank god, I managed to get straight. I dont' even really care about the shelf because it's my closet. And to fix it would be just WAY too much work.
My dresser is now also very organized. I bought these little insert things and now I have everything sorted into things like Undies I wear, Undies I don't wear, bras, bra accessories (there is such a thing), socks, socks that are still brand new, nylons, tank tops etc.
And if that wasn't enough, on Sunday I decided it was about time my mom and I finished the hallway repapering we'd started more than a year ago. I got Dave to help me peel all the old stuff off on Sunday and yesterday my mom and I put all the new stuff back up. It feels so much better to have everything done. My dad laughed at me, saying "so you've redone your closet and you've redone the hallway.... does that mean you're staying for a while?"
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