Sooooo I returned to the book and scrutinized the details in the photographs on each page and spied so many alternative ideas that I had missed the first few times around. Then, excited to bits, I ran back and forth between the dairy and the house so that I could gather up all manner of unused tubs, popcicle trays, cans, tins... and came up with this for my immediate art area:
I had also found some really useful hanging drawer-things on line that I decided were worth the price. These and all of my filled bins/tins are going to be hung on the wall so that my art tools are nearby but up, out of the way. No clutter! No digging around in endless boxes cluttered with layers of stuff. No more having to dig six boxes out of a shelf to find the one box I *think* might contain what I'm looking for (only to find out most of the time oops, wrong box)... and best of all: no more forgetting about what I have and what I don't have!
And here we have the final shelves for the dairy ~ I've been working on this project since June and I hope to be finished by the end of June of this year. However, I might not be fully "moved in" until July. But once that happens YAHOOO! And along the way I have learned so many wonderful organizing tricks that I can then employ in the house. :-)
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Those colors and what I recall of others in the earlier remodeling are great! Doesn't it 'feel' wonderful to have some order to things? It makes for a great sense of mental security when there's a place for everything and everything's in place. Plus, it's easier to keep track of items which might be of interest to certain little explorers. (Also, it is easier on the pocketbook in the long run, when you don't have to keep replacing that 'missing' fancy ermine paintbrush. You can develop a sense of kinship, too, with your favorite paintpot.
It's so true! Basic organization gives such a lovely sense of order and security. Otherwise everything is absolute chaos! And the smallest activity or project turns into a frustrating circus as I try and find stuff AND work while a bunch of clutter is in the way.
I told Erlend that I have a "log jam" going on ~ in order for me to organize the house I have to first get a lot of stuff out into the dairy and also in storage in the stable. Then that will open up room for me to move the other stuff into organized bliss. Thankfully he's a patient man!
I've learned a lot about organizing while working on this dairy project. I've been able to make a lot of mistakes on a much smaller, less expensive scale. And so I feel very confident that my house organizing will take much less time and with a lot less time-consuming and money-consuming mistakes. I can't wait!!
I never realized how difficult it is to learn to organize... it really has been a learning process!
and how is the diet coming along?
Hi Michelle! Haven't been to your blog in ages! How's everything? Hope all is well for you and the little ones!
I have loved your posts about the dairy project! Gives me inspiration for an 1890 carriage house I haven't known how best to use! :)
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