The shelves above the washer and dryer in our laundry room area have been a catch all. They have housed children’s games, crafts supplies, Muffin Tin Monday Supplies, cleaning supplies, and laundry items.
Last winter I cleared all the children’s games off the laundry room shelves and found a new place for them. They now live on the top two shelves of the linen closet across from this laundry area in our downstairs guest bathroom.
Some of the items left behind were put in fall foliage fabric cubes that I found on clearance for $1. The remaining items were left out where I could see them and quickly grab them. I understood why the laundry area was organized that way, but I thought it looked really really cluttered.
The fabric storage cubes looked wonderful on the shelves. I decided last Saturday to go out and get five more cubes. I knew I wouldn’t be able to find the same fabric of the cubes again so, the search was on for cubes that would be in the same fall color family.
Thankfully I found these rust colored cubes at Walmart for less than $4 each. They aren’t a perfect color match, but I think they are close.
When I got home I pulled all the items off the laundry room shelves and JDaniel helped me sort them into groups. There was a paint supply group, play dough supply group, hands-on manipulative group, a cleaning supply group, and finally a laundry item group.
We then put the items in each group in a bin.
The items looked so much better placed into the fabric bins, but unless I pulled each bin off the shelf I wasn’t sure what was in them.
Saturday afternoon my family headed out to look for tags to hang from the bins that I could put a label in. My initial thought was a luggage tag or clear tag hanging off a key chain. We weren’t able to find those in the stores that we tried.
A sales clerk at a local five and dime suggested that I used name badges as my tags. The badges were really inexpensive and would clip easily to the front of the bins. She was brilliant. The tags look great hanging from the front of the totes.
That looks great! I always have a new sense of calm after I organize something in my house.
GREAT JOB! LOOKS MUCH BETTER!
What a good deal on those fabric cubes! It looks really great!
THat is a great idea! Good job!!! LOVE it!
Wow, that looks great! I really need to get organised!
Name tags were a great idea! I use the same cloth bins to organize our craft supplies, but they are lighter colors so I just wrote on the fabric with a Sharpie. But then if I re-purpose a bin, I’m stuck! I like how the name tags labels can be changed.
I have those same bins for my son’s playroom and I love them! You can put so much in them and they are soft so they won’t break, chip, or crack… I love the ideas with the tags though, very neat!
I lover organizing a room with bins!! It looks great and so inexpensive to do!
That looks great! I love a good organization day!
{Melinda} Your “before” pic looks like my current laundry room! Love this idea … especially the name tags. What a great idea. I don’t mind my clutter if I don’t have to see it. The bins take care of that. 🙂
What a difference some time and bins make! It looks great!
i love your organization… we need more here, but once we start, it just clutters up somewhere else… i think once broxton starts school and isn’t here to “help” me, i might be better at it 🙂
Even thinking about organizing or cleaning my laundry room gives me the jitters!
looks great! I have been working on getting organized this summer. Hope it stays that way once school starts 😉
I love it. The boxes are a great color, they are labeled. So easy to find what you need and looks a whole lot better. Now, I need to do that. Thank you for the inspiration 🙂
it looks so tidy – really need to organise my kids play and craft stuff properly.
it’s amazing what some bins will do for you!! it looks very neat and tidy!
I have shelves just like those and this is a wonderful idea!!
Looks great!
I need to do some organizing in my closets. It’s been way too long.
Looks so neat!
What a great idea. I love the neat shelves and the bins and boxes. Great n word too.
such creativity in your organizing ~ lovely ~ (A Creative Harbor)
Such creativity in your organizing ~ (A Creative Harbor)
I love seeing an orderly laundry room. Good work, JDaniel and Mom!
You are going to ruin him for some sloppy girl he’ll fall in love with someday, lol! 🙂
Seriously this is awesome !!
great job organizing. I need to be organized almost everywhere.
You should have your own TV show (smile). Very well done my friend!!
It looks great!
Listen you—– You can come over to my house anytime you want!
Our laundry room is such a mess as its in the basement, thanks for the great tips on how to organize!
great job! you have inspired me to organized my mess!
OH please come organize my laundry room too! 🙂
You did a great job. I love to reorganize and actually do it as a destressor believe it or not. There is something about taking your time and seeing things you have not seen in a while and remembering something from them. I actually just reorganized here in my house last week and totally enjoyed it. I am actually even excited about helping a friend in need of some major organizing. Hope you had fun doing it.
Can you come organize mine. 😉
Great job. Inspiring actually. I have a storage problem, I think this kind of plan would get things under control so I would be able to fit more in less space.
I think most everyone’s laundry room is a catch-all location! I know mine is! I was just thinking that I needed to get in there and organize, and throw out a bunch of stuff! You did a good job on yours!
umm…yeah, could you just stop by here later and do my laundry room? Your before pic looks better than mine does right now!
Good job! I need to follow your lead…
=)
Wow! You are amazing! I would love to be this organized! I am happy that I stopped by!
Heaven only knows how I am going to organize my laundry room! The husband who lived in this house before must have been 7 feet tall because I need a step-stool and a long reach! I love your cloth containers, and the name tags are soooo clever.
Wow.
What nifty organization.
And such a lovely laundry room.
Mine, sadly, looks nothing like this.
But you give me inspiration that it actually could!
Thanks for an inspiring stop for the letter ‘N’.
A+
I’ve have been cleaning out pretty much my whole house this summer and guess which room I have left to tackle? Thanks for the inspiration!