My organizational accomplishments part 2

You now the areas I said earlier that I need to organize very badly? Well, we actually got them done! Thank you Adam!! Yeah!!! They not only look better, but I think the changes will work much better for us.

The front door area, where we put our shoes. Before:

There is now a crate just for the boys shoes and one for the girls shoes. Daddy and Mama’s shoes go on the floor. I took away the large container of hats and mittens, and replaced it with a much smaller container with just the ones that they wear on a regular basis. After:

The other area is the wash room. Before:

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As you can see, this was a drastic change. I have liked the idea of a family closet for a long time, but I never thought we had the room. Then I had the idea of putting the children’s dressers in the place of the table and putting shelves for their clothing. In actuality, the table is still there, folded down behind the dressers (Adam made it from an old table and attached it to the wall with the hinges so it could fold down when/if needed.).We took down the wooden clothes rack to make room for more shelving.

I think I will like this better. When their clothes are done, I ( or they) just turn around and put it right away. No more sitting in buckets, waiting to be put away.
Plus, they no longer go upstairs to put there jammies/clothes on. They are supervised at all times, so there is no playing upstairs and getting into trouble. The girls’ hair things are down here, as well (most of that stuff ended up down here anyway). There tooth brushes are down here, so I can be sure that gets done properly. In short, the only things the children will use the upstairs for is sleeping and taking showers.

Yes, I think this is going to be much better.

(So what have we done with their closets? All of the rods and hard ware is still there, just in case we decide to put some clothing back up there, like when they get older. In the girls room I put Damaris’s crib in the closet. It fits real nice. And in the boys’ room, I put the doll house in it. Oh, and the adults do not have their clothes down here. I figured we are old enough to brush our teeth and put our jammies on without getting into trouble. At least I can.)