Storage Under the Stairs

Awhile ago I showed you the mess under our stairs.  There is a large amount of space under there, but it just hasn't been utilized in a smart way. 

Click this photo if you would like to see the previous post about this space.

I asked Scotty if he would add some shelves for me.  He had some scrap lumber that would do the trick, so he went to work adding shelving for me...well for him too since it will store both of our stuff.  ;)

 So now I have some extra space to put all of our stuff:

They turned out pretty darn nice for a bunch of scrap wood.  Even the trim around the edges is leftover fence boards that he ripped down on his table saw.  I love that we are finding ways to use up this old scrap wood (besides as fuel for our chiminea).

It didn't take long to fill them up with our stuff.  I haven't had a chance to get them all dolled up for a party yet.  Grin.  We have a huge purging and organizing project that includes this closet, the laundry room/pantry, and the storage area in the garage.  It needs to get done soon.  Until then, we don't want to do too much more with this area ~ because we aren't sure what will end up here. 

This works for now.

I was able to fit my painted wooden chest in here ~ to the right of the shelves.  (I have retro~fitted this chest with hanging files and folders for my records ~ it's pretty handy).  My black travelling scrapbook bag is down in the angle of the closet and I have a rolling craft cart that I pull out daily for the preschoolers arts and crafts.

The chest makes a nice surface for our tote bags...the flowery one for Sadie and her pooch stuff, and the wicker bag with beach towels...for when we go into the hot tub.

This beauty is a shoe organizer filled with tennis ball jars ~ the jars hold knobs, pulls, screws and many other goodies for our ongoing craft projects.  It is a lifesaver to have this here. 

Expect great things from this closet space.  We are working on several projects ~ not to mention the Great Organization Project of 2012 to include:  the laundry room, pantry, stairwell closet and garage storage area!  I want it all to be pretty and practical when we are done.  I think it's about time for a good purge!

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I think it's time for the hot tub.  :)
Sherry


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Welcome to  PONDERED PRIMED PERFECTED !  We are a forty-ish couple with two kids, a dog and a mortgage.  This blog will chronicle our PROJECTS together.  Big or small.  Success or Failure.  Laughter AND tears.  We won't always agree on how things should be done but in the end we make a darn good team and accomplish a lot.  We are not EXPERTS...  We both know a little about a lot of different things.  Come by to catch us improving, updating, replacing, re purposing, recovering, and refinishing whatever we can get our hands on. 

Mostly we just want to satisfy that creative voice inside of us that is just crying out to be heard...

We hope you will find something interesting, helpful or even humorous here!

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This is my home office and crafting space:

My Creative Space

This room used to be our family room but we moved our television to the living room and now that's where the family hangs out. Go figure. ;) This room is a perpetual work-in-progress. It is where I humor the part of me that craves rearranging and staging.   It has become a multi-functional room ~ housing my home office and my craft supplies in those amazing louvred cabinets.  And NO, They are not finished!!!   I cannot wait to post about those cabinets being finished, believe me.  But for now...

Here is what they looked like when we brought them home from a friends garage ~FREE~:

And here they are after we (*most of the credit to my Honey) had added a nice fresh coat of creamy white paint:

(See that whtie desk?  That used to be our dining table until I had The Handy Man cut it down to desk size for my office/craft space...wait 'til you see what we did with the piece we cut off!  Future post alert!!)

They don't have doors on them yet because Stud Muffin kept having issues with brown bleeding through even after several coats of paint and primer.

What!?  Are you serious, Honey?  Let me try!!!

After a little eye rolling and a couple of chuckles from The Handy Man, I worked my magic.  Not with his fancy commercial sprayer, mind you.  I pulled out my trusty can of ivory spray paint and went to town. 

What!?  No more yucky brown smudges bleeding through? 

The doors are an entirely different color than the cabinet base but who cares?  We still have some trimming to do, some holes to fill and then I think another coat of paint to even out the color.  But for now I have filled them with all of my scrapping, crafting, drawing, painting, bill paying goodness. 

What do you think?

Finally, to show you just a glimpse of why we have so much fun together on our projects.  Check out what my Darling Hubby looked like when he came to tell me he had finished spraying the cabinets:

And here he is again after I told him what was so unbelievably funny:

Do you think he needed a bit more ventilation in that spray booth he rigged up out back?

(Sorry it's blurry.  I was just laughing so hard I couldn't hold the camera steady!)

Enjoy your projects,

Sherry

***Updated Cabinet***

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