Linen Closet – Looks Better, Works Better
In my organizing work, I talk a lot about limits. Setting limits and noticing when you’ve reached your limits is the most important thing in striking a balance between being organized and falling into being disorganized. Organization is a highly subjective issue. One person’s organized is another person’s disorganized. The below pictures show an in-home organizing project of my own. The Linen Closet. It is a pretty good size, but in a particularly busy few weeks it just got out of control. The limit had been reached – stuff was overflowing and I had a pile of towels to put away, but I didn’t have a place to put them. The signal to carve out some time and tackle it! Get a trash bag ready, recycle bin nearby and go!
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| Hallway Linen Closet – BEFORE |
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| Hallway Linen Closet – BEFORE Look at the stuff just spewing out |
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| Hallway Linen Closet – BEFORE Who knows WHAT is in there?!?!? |
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| Hallway Linen Closet – BEFORE The top shelf looks decent here, but as for the lowest shelf in this picture – who stores their sheets on top of a Vaseline jar? |
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| Hallway Linen Closet – BEFORE The limit – where do I put this? It used to fit in there?? |
And here are the after images. After sorting everything out, I came across expired medicines and old lotions and potions that needed to be tossed.
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| Hallway Linen Closet – AFTERWow, you can see the stuff now! |
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| Hallway Linen Closet – AFTER And, the clean towels all fit! |
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| Hallway Linen Closet – AFTER The sheets fit too, and they aren’t stacked on top of the Vaseline jar anymore. |
I also added a door organizer to hold the little bottles and stuff that was getting lost on the shelves. I love the deep shelves, but for the small things they weren’t working so well. See a similar piece here.
