Spring Cleaning and Organizing

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Mr. DIY  is working on a wood project to give to our granddaughter and I'll share it soon. 

In the meantime...

Temps are warming up around the Carolinas, which means one thing:

It's time for a little Spring cleaning, organizing and time to freshen things up. 

I'll be starting in my kitchen and bathrooms, cleaning out cabinets and drawers.

Start with the basics: 

CLEANING SUPPLIES

I use all of these, with the exception of the Pink Stuff Magic Stuff Cleaner. 

It's a #1 Best Seller in All Purpose Cleaners on Amazon, so I'm going to have to try it.

If you've tried it, let me know what you think in the comments below.

A SIMPLE TIP

 I cut Magic Erasers in half and place in cabinet in EVERY sink in the house in a Command Caddy.

I've done this at our home and at our Mountain House. Keeping them handy makes it so simple to take a few seconds to keep sinks clean. 

Click on the link if you'd like to join my obsession with Command Products, click HERE 

Next on my list after cleaning and clearing out cabinets

Replace drawer liner with Contact Grip Liner.  

This is still on my to do list. The Grip liner will keep things in the drawer (including the liner) from shifting. 

For Grip Liner link, click HERE

I don't know about you, but I could use some use some new food containers that look nice and have lids.

For clear food containers, click HERE

My pantry could use some new containers too.

For clear food storage containers, click HERE 

Now I'm getting ahead of myself and my list is getting too long! I still have a list for outdoors and planting seeds and....

FAVORITE "CHEAT"

For all the rooms that I still need to do some Spring Cleaning in, I'll be spraying my favorite Honeysuckle Room Spray by Meyers. Have you tried it?

Love. Love. Love!

 For Meyers Honeysuckle Room Freshener, click HERE

HONORABLE MENTION:

Here's a miscellaneous tip:

Order a few mildew resistant shower liners and keep them on hand for when you need to replace.

For mildew resistant shower liner, click HERE

Here's to making Spring cleaning a little easier!

Thanks for stopping by,

Pam

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More Garage Organizing

Hello friends,

Our 5th and final trailer/pod with storage, miscellaneous furniture and garage items was delivered this past Saturday.
It's nice to have everything under our roof, but now we have more unpacking to do. 
I'm so glad Mr. DIY installed his wall of cabinets first because he was able to unpack many of his tools and equipment right away. 
Half of the garage is filled with the totes we stored in our basement at the last house. Those will be stored in our high crawl space once it's encapsulated in a few weeks. 

Before our storage items arrived, Mr. DIY installed a rail organizing system for the ladders, step stools, laundry baskets and drying rack.

There are several rail type wall organizers out there, but we chose the Gladiator system from Lowe's because they had the hooks that would work for what we needed to store. 

Here's the wall before.

The system is pretty easy to install . Just screw it into the studs and put the end caps on.

Then clip in the hooks. 

 The hooks slide along the rail system so you can adjust them where you want them.

Here's how the wall looks now...

A fairly easy project that didn't take much time.

Mr. DIY has a workbench to build and will be adding a few more cabinets above it and the garage will be all finished.

If you missed the post on the beautiful wall of garage cabinets, you can find it HERE.

Hope you're having a good week!

Pam

ps: neither Lowe's or Gladiator compensated me for this post in any way.

The Hall Linen Closet

Hello friends!

We are still organizing here at downsized Casa Fanatic.

When we viewed our home for the first time, guess which space/spaces we were most excited about? 

It wasn't because the Dining Room was huge or the Master Bath has a big tub. It wasn't even for the large Family Room.  
We were so excited when we viewed this house because there were 3 hall closets and a Master Bath linen closet. We were downsizing and we needed storage space. 

I was so excited about the 4 hall closets that I took photos of them. This is how the Hall Closet looked when we viewed the house. Even though it was larger than the 2nd linen closet we had at our old house, what I didn't notice is that is that it only had 4 shelves. 

So, Mr. DIY headed off to the big box store and purchased one shelf. We had originally thought we'd use the 16" deep wire shelving  that we took out of our Master Bath linen closet, but we couldn't do that since this closet was a few inches wider.
Bummer.

He added one shelf to the top...

...and one shelf at the bottom.

Perfect!

Since we already had brackets left over from other wire shelves we took out, we spent less than $20.

I've been working on hemming some Ikea Ritva curtain panels. They only come in 96" and 118" and we need 101.

 Our porch furniture is still in that last 15 ft trailer/pod in storage, but Mr. DIY wanted more comfortable seating than the bench we have, so he brought home a few chairs from Ikea. Mr. DIY has made many  trips to Ikea the last few weeks.

He purchased some Sektion cabinets for the garage in anticipation of the 15 foot trailer/pod in storage which is storing most of our garage items. These are going to look great once they are all finished and the doors are on. Mr. DIY says he is going to have a clean garage at this house. Can't wait.

Fall is almost here, but the few Fall decorations that we have are in that last 15 foot trailer, so I'm a little glad(not too much though) that it's still too warm in my book, for Fall decorations.

If you missed the other 3 closets (and the pantry) you can see them here:

Master Bath Linen Closet

Transforming A Coat Closet

Pantries(includes the other coat closet)

Happy Organizing!!!

Pam

Transforming A Coat Closet

Hello friends!

Hope you're enjoying the last days of summer.
Here in the South, we have about 6 weeks of unrelenting heat and humidity. It won't be long now until the days start to cool off. Mr. DIY is still working hard on the closets so that we can be more organized.
A few posts ago, I showed you how he transformed the linen closet in the Master Bath.
If you missed it, you can see it HERE.

The closet I'm sharing today is the coat closet in the little hallway that leads to the Master Bedroom.

When we toured the house for the first time, the owners used this closet for linens.

The closet only had space for hanging and one wire shelf. This wasn't going to work for us since we needed more shelving so the games, cd's, etc. that we stored in the armoires in our previous home. If you remember, we moved both armoires to the new Office/Craft room since that room doesn't have a closet and because the new Family Room is configured differently and they wouldn't work with the layout. I figured that if the hanging rod was lowered a few inches, 3 shelves could be installed to provide a lot of much needed storage space. 

The wire shelf was easy enough to demo and the holes were patched. We'll get around to painting another time. I was getting weary of boxes everywhere.

Mr. DIY installed two-16" fixed melamine shelves and one-12" shelf. It was enough to hold all of the games, cds and some miscellaneous items

I even have a little space left on that 3rd shelf. (Mr. DIY cut two 12" shelves in case I wanted to change the middle 16" shelf to 12". He just stored it on top of the other 12" shelf)

Even though the shelves aren't adjustable, the new closet is perfect!

This past weekend we started putting up artwork, mirrors and Mr. DIY installed some curtain rods.
It's beginning to feel a lot more like home. Here are a few peeks:

I set up the framed chalkboard on the little dresser in the Foyer just like our last house.

Hope you're week is off to a good start! This week we'll be working on closet, doing some organizing, selling a few unwanted items and making our new house feel like home.

Hope today is a good day for you,

Pam