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| Bathroom Corner shelf...120,000/= |
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| Microwave shelf...you can also place your rice cooker on top! - 100,000/= |
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| Shelf unayoweza kupanga Spices zako zote za jikoni! - 100,000/= |
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| Frying pans holder! - 65,000/= |
I’ve come to understand how and why it’s done that way, and it’s become one of my favorite foods. However, since the casing is nothing more than a delivery system, I much prefer to form the boudin into balls, and fry them as seen herein. Well hello! I’m back to kick off January with a little purging and organizing. I introduced you to my favorite room in the house a couple years ago. It’s not what you would expect as a favorite, since half of it has cement walls:
That’s how it looked years back before everything was drywalled in. Considering I used to have all of this down there:
Getting down to this little 60-square-foot room was pretty fantastic.
It’s actually stayed fairly organized for the past couple of years. I think it was around when we started construction on taking down the wall in the family room that it became a complete and utter disaster area:
I show you this because I love you. Be kind.
This room serves a couple functions for us now – one is storage and one is the “cat” room. A couple of the litter boxes are in here. One is upstairs as well and that’s the only one they like to use but that’s a longer story.
I actually got all this done before Christmas. I was fed up with the space and a woman on a mission. The first thing I did was to take every single thing that was on the floor or stacked up on something out of the room:
We keep our dehumidifier down hooked up to the sump pump but we turned it off some time ago because the sound of it was terrifying one of the cats. He’s heard it for literally years and all of the sudden…terrifying. So.
Also, we don’t use it in the winter anyway and we’ve been told a couple times it’s really not that necessary in our dry basement anyway. So it went to the under the stairs storage for now and that opened up quite a bit of room.
The biggest problem has been the paint. I haven’t gone through it in years and I didn’t have a great system set up. All of this was sitting on the floor in the room:
Most of those were on the floor because I had already decided to get rid of them. I just was too lazy to take them all upstairs? I guess? Who knows.
Even when it was fairly organized I would get frustrated finding a color I needed. So I grabbed some mailing labels we had:
And used them to label those that weren’t:
I put the room I used them in and how I used them too – ceiling paint, trim paint, whatever. What was funny is that for some of the colors I had to search my own blog to figure out how I used it. ;)
The paint area was a mess mostly because I just didn’t have enough room for everything. I had all the little sample and quart cans stacked with the bigger ones and it was a mess.
I had a few more of the metal brackets (super cheap) and grabbed the best piece of scrap wood I had from the basement. It was only a one by six (all the other shelves are at least one by ten) but it was just big enough to hold all the small cans:
And obviously I got rid of a ton of stuff. I saw this years ago and try to keep it in mind when clearing out: 
I’ve said it a million times but I’ll say it again…you waste money when you aren’t organized. I’ll be the first to admit that when my storage spaces become a mess I end up buying something again because I can’t find it. It’s such a waste and must be the reason I have approximately 12 tape measures.
As for the stuff still in the room – a lot of it is for future projects, a lot of it is just decorative stuff I actually use:
The awesome part? I have empty space on nearly every shelf. Hopefully by the end of this no-spend month I’ll have more projects done and even more space!
One of my favorite tricks is to use the drapery tie backs as big hooks. I use them in our coat closet for bags and scarves and they work GREAT! I used to use these on every one of our windows but have since taken them all down – so I have a lot that I use this way:
And yes, I have a little lamp in here. Every room needs some low light. HA!
There you go – one space completely purged and organized! It feels so good!! I’ve moved on to other spaces and will share those as well. Are you feeling the decluttering bug right now? My goodness, when I have the time and patience to focus on it I love this process!
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| What more can i say.......the mirror is so classy! |
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Hello all! I hope the end of last year and the start to 2015 were great! We stayed at home and partied in the basement…meaning we sat on the couch and ate popcorn. ;)
I’ve been busy going through rooms, purging and organizing and it feels so good. I love it. I’ve had zero desire to bring anything new into the house – it all must go! So I figured this would be a great time to do another one of my no-spend months.
I’ve done these a couple times before and it’s just a time for me to focus on what we have, make things work and get stuff done around the house. I always have list a mile long of projects I want to accomplish that get pushed aside because of the bigger stuff. And it just feels good to not bring any more STUFF into the house. My only cheat may be an IKEA trip that’s already planned, but I may just reschedule. ;)
I thought I would share a few of my favorite projects from no-spends past so you can see what I’m up to during these months.
I still love my little candlestick table that sits in our family room:
You can see how I made that (with items from Goodwill that I had) here.
Years ago I found an amazing online resource for free prints and used that to create some art in the family room:
I later added some gold rub n buff to the corners of those frames too:
This is one of the projects I get asked about most! I made it from scrap wood and it’s SO EASY. These are great for the middle of a long table too.
Another one of my best no-spend projects was when I took an old 80’s night stand we had forever:
And made it over with white paint and handles (all we had on hand).
So much better!:
I didn’t love the scrolly wood underneath so I recently removed that with my jigsaw, as you can see in this Instagram pic from the other night:
It removed even more of the 80’s feel. ;)
I used some scrap wood to build some shelves in the guest room closet:
I hate wasted space and this makes that awkward spot SO much more useful!
I also finished up a big project in that same room:
I had the paint…I just never took the time to do it! Still love this ombre wall!
We had some drapes that needed lined and some sheets I was going to drop off at Goodwill – so I used the sheets to line the drapes:
Like I said, I tend to get a lot of little things done in these months and last time I finished up a bunch of little details in our basement bathroom and shared the reveal:
I adore this room and it’s pretty colors! You can see more of this space here.
I’m looking forward to getting some projects knocked off the list! Hope you’ll find them useful too!
You can see all of my no-spend projects here and here. :) Have a great weekend my peeps!
