Who doesn't love a good DIY organizing project?! If there's one thing I can't stand, it's when something in my house just isn't working. Like my closet for instance. I LOVE our little house and I am so proud that I bought it by myself when I was single, but I underestimated how vital closet space is. Each bedroom in the house has one closet that is just short of 4 feet wide... except the master bedroom which has two 4 foot closets side by side...functional. AND THAT'S IT. No linen closet, coat closet, not one! Up until this point, we've stored anything extra in our "spare bedroom" aka the room that's door is always shut so no one can see how much crap we have. When the baby gets here, that room will be his or her room.. while this is exciting, it's a problem, lol.

So right now, Steven has one of the master closets and I have the other. I am supposed to fit all my hoodies, coats, long sleeve shirts, short sleeve, dresses, tank tops, jeans, sweats, shoes, purses, bags in a FOUR FOOT CLOSET. Impossible. I've lived in this house 3 and a half years and I've pretty much ignored this closet situation until now. Last year sometime I did add a second closet rod on the bottom half of the closet so I could hang more things like my jeans and bigger jackets, but thanks to my not so impressive handy woman skills I installed the rod about 6 inches too low... so my jeans are always dragging the ground, making it extremely annoying to make myself hang up my clothes down there.

Now that we are expecting baby #2 I've decided the entire house's storage situation needs to be dealt with permanently. So I'm slowly working my way from room to room. This week after hours of searching online for some type of solution for just the bottom of my closet, I finally found a shelf/cubby system on Amazon that I thought might just do it. Forty bucks and two day shipping and VOILA! Time to do some damage.

So I'm horrible about being so excited to start a project that I dive straight in and forget to take a before picture... but I think I pretty much explained what the bottom of the closet looked like. Crowded, dysfunctional, pants hanging crooked off hangers and dragging the floor, piles of clothes stuffed in the corners because that's what my husband does with clothes that I leave in the floor or next to the bed :). He's a real problem solver lol. The closet annoys me so badly that I've stopped doing any more laundry than one load at a time even when my hamper is full (always) because I don't want to have to hang things up and look at the stupid closet situation, lol pathetic.

I am proud to say that after about 30 minutes of building the shelf, another 15 minutes to raise up the hanging rod about 6 inches, and 20 minutes to fold and reassemble where everything goes, bippety boppety boo it is DONE!!

One project down, probably 35 to go, but I'm making progress! Next will be adding more shelves and hanging room in our laundry room so I can store seasonal decorations and clothes in there. Man what a set up, lol. That project will require help from my husband so I'm sure he will be thrilled ;). His solution to all of this is "How about you just get rid of your stuff?" Yeah okay Steve. As if the 10 bags I've already donated aren't enough!! That's a rant for another blog ;)
If you have any other tips for storage in an extremely limited space, HIT. ME. UP.

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!!!!!