Office Space!
Last Saturday, Cory and I “scheduled” the day to go through our office/music/collect all room, organize and PURGE. I’ve had this desire to to create more space lately and de-clutter. One look at this room might have given any one of y’all a panic attack. I sure had a few but we knew if we didn’t write it down in both our planners, we would put it off. I mean look at it. Who would want to tackle this?
I’m almost ashamed to share these photos but I like to keep it real on here. So while I may post pictures of a perfectly clean bathroom, this was two doors down the hall.
Bad, I know. But it does get better. I promise.
After clearing out the room {except for the big stuff}, this was our donate pile. We discovered that our attic has a larger floor space than we had originally thought so we were able to store a lot stuff up there. It was mostly stuff that we don’t want to get rid of like some of Cory’s old art work but we don’t have anywhere to display it right now. We also cleaned out the closet which had a lot of our winter jackets and my dresses, switched out my summer/winter clothes, and I came up with FOUR trash bags full of clothes, shoes and bags to get rid of.
Oh, and we’d already taken the four or five bags of trash outside. Ahem.
And here is the after…
Since we had some extra room in the office now, we were able to confine move all of Cory’s action figures into one space of the house. Yes, my 28 year old husband collects action figures. Just a kid trapped in a mans body.
While it took all day, I’m so glad to have this room cleaned out and be able to check it off my April goals. Now that you can actually access this room, we can start on turning it into my dream office and a work space I can actually us. We said we would wait to purchase the goodies from IKEA until we had this step finished {obviously we had no where to keep anything} and I can’t wait to get started!
12 Comments
Maegen @ The Modern Tulip
Gosh you are good! Come to my house next? Also, send me one of those bags of clothes okay? :)
Paige Sloan
Haha…it took me four years to do ours! But thank you!
Jessi Otey
YAY to organization girl! Looks Fab!
Paige Sloan
Thank you! I feel so much better having it finished!
Carly
You guys did an awesome job! I know what you mean about having to schedule out time to tackle tasks like this– otherwise they tend to be WAY too easy to just push off over and over again!
Paige Sloan
Yes! We learned this after putting it off for the past 4 years…haha. But it’s done now!
Maggie@ Polka Dots in the Country
You did a great job clearing everything out. My little room I’m going to use as my “getting ready room/craft room” looks a lot like the before pictures right now so don’t feel bad. Can’t wait to see how everything looks when you’re done!
Paige Sloan
Glad I’m not the only one who has a room that looks like an episode of Hoarders!
Lisa loves john
Girl, you rock!! That is sOme serious organization!! Xo
Paige Sloan
Thank you! It helped that we got rid of half the stuff in the room!
Julie
Oh my goodness! You guys rocked that organization project! it looks great! Cleaning and organizing is such a good feeling!
Paige Sloan
Thank you! I felt so much better afterwards!