{OrganizedHome} Day 28: Laundry Room Organization

 My Laundry room is also my main entry, so it has to be tidy.  Which means my laundry room closet was a natural place to store all of the un-pretties:   tools, cleaning products, board games, flash lights, chicken feed....anything I didn't have a spot for and didn't wan to look at.

And because I don't have a craft room, I was trying to store craft stuff in there too.  It was a mess.  I don't normally like to show "before" pictures because, well, they aren't pretty and I like my blog to be full of pretty things. But here we go:

The closet was such a mess that I sometimes didn't even want to try to put things back once I had taken them out.  So they ended up on the sink.

I contemplated taking the craft stuff out of the closet so that there would be room for all the miscellany that belongs there, but I decided instead to put up shelves for the miscellany and dedicate the closet entirely to crafts. 

(The crafts closet will be a post all it's own, once it's done. I am seriously excited about having all my craft stuff in one place.  The thought of it makes me a little giddy.)

Here's a what the laundry room looked like before the new shelves:

And here is the laundry room now, with more storage:

 I wanted brackets like this:

via IKEA

But the nearest Ikea is a 2 hour drive away, so I showed the picture to my husband and he built me some that are similar:

I stained some wooden crates and applied pieces of self adhesive chalkboard paper to the front.

I hung a rod to hang some of my cleaning products on.

 An old toothbrush holder makes for a pretty place for paint brushes to dry.
 

Clothes pins are stored in a bucket.

I shopped my house for a frame to pretty the space up a bit.

 

Under the sink I installed a plastic bag holder and use it to conveniently store rags and cloths.

[Thanks for stopping by to see my laundry room storage solutions.  This is day 28 in a series called 31 Days to an Organized Home.  Click here to see all the series posts to date.]

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