Now that I’ve completed my out of doors tasks in the meanwhile, I’m able to focus 100% of my consideration on the storage room venture till it’s completed. I’m truly a little bit bit unhappy about it as a result of I liked having the ability to work outdoors day by day, nevertheless it’s simply getting too sizzling for that. So I’ll be working inside for the month of August. I hope to get again outdoors and deal with extra out of doors tasks when cooler climate will get right here, however for now, I have to give attention to inside tasks.
At first of this yr, once I wrote my 2026 listing of residence targets, the one exterior tasks I had on that listing concerned the outside of the bed room door — portray the trim, constructing steps, and including landscaping round that door. So now that I took the final three months to do far more outdoors than I had initially deliberate, I’m positive I’ll have to regulate my expectations a bit for the remainder of this yr. I’ve a sense that the one venture that must get pushed to subsequent yr is my workshop.
There are three different areas which might be on my listing of targets for this yr that also haven’t been completed. The primary is the breakfast room, which requires no development and simply must be adorned and turned again into an precise eating area with a desk and chairs as an alternative of a sitting room with recliners and a TV. After I “shopped my home” to finish different rooms, I took loads of issues out of the breakfast room (i.e., sitting room), so it’s trying fairly naked proper now.
After which there’s the sunroom, which I wish to flip into a house health club at one finish and a TV space on the opposite finish. This shall be a giant venture as a result of this room is at the moment crammed to the brim with stuff. It’s principally an enormous storage room, however when it’s cleared out, it should look one thing like this, besides with an added 13 years of wear and tear and tear and mistreatment because it’s been used as a storage room that I assumed we have been going to tear down…
Clearly, turning this room into one thing that appears presentable will take fairly a little bit of effort and time. I nonetheless query whether or not it’s even attainable, however I’m positive going to attempt.
All of that to say that, as a result of I’ve so many different tasks I wish to find time for this yr (and there are solely 5 months left), I wish to get by means of this storage room venture as quick as I can. Proper now, the room appears like this…
That’s how I left it the final time I used to be compelled inside due to rain, so I spent that day engaged on tearing out that rest room to make room for the storage room. However that’s so far as I received.
However as a result of I would like this venture to go as quick as attainable, I’ve been on the lookout for methods to make it sooner and simpler. I notice it’s only a storage room, and I’m the one one who will ever truly use this room. However I additionally actually like fairly, good, customized areas, even when they’re only for me. I’ve been everywhere in the map in relation to deciding on what sort of storage cabinets I would like for this room. I’ve thought-about every part from ready-made, adjustable wall items to constructing cupboards from scratch that match the cupboards in my walk-in closet.
However over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been asking myself what’s extra essential. Having probably the most stunning, customized storage room that rivals my walk-in closet, or having a easy, organized, and completed storage room. I’ve settled on the latter, so I’ve tried to readjust my expectations for this room and provide you with a approach that I can construct engaging storage cabinets with out going to all the bother that I went to in my closet the place every part is on show. Nothing on this storage room shall be on show, so I don’t want this room to be that fancy. I would like it to look good when it’s completed. And sure, there shall be daring colour and wallpaper as a result of I like these issues and I would like it to be enjoyable to have a look at for me once I open these doorways. However I actually simply wish to get it completed.
You’ll be able to see that she used a sequence of wooden blocks hooked up to the facet items of the shelving unit, and people areas create the helps for the cabinets. If she desires to regulate the peak of the cabinets, she merely pulls the shelf out and strikes it up or down.
Right here’s what the completed shelving unit appears like. I feel that appears fairly superb!
I actually liked this design as quickly as I watched that video (which you’ll watch right here), and I’m contemplating constructing cabinets like this for my very own storage room. Like I mentioned, I simply need fast and simple. I would like this storage room to look good and arranged when it’s completed, nevertheless it doesn’t have to seem like my closet. I don’t want all the trim and fancy stuff that can take a very long time. The truth is, I’ve determined that I don’t even want drawers. I simply need it completed. I do need it to be fairly (for me), however primarily, I simply need it completed, organized, and usable, and I would like that as quickly as attainable. I’d slightly focus the majority of my time and power on areas that visitors will truly see once they come to our home. In order that’s my mindset as I focus 100% of my consideration on this venture till it’s accomplished.
Addicted 2 Adorning is the place I share my DIY and adorning journey as I transform and embellish the 1948 fixer higher that my husband, Matt, and I purchased in 2013. Matt has M.S. and is unable to do bodily work, so I do nearly all of the work on the home on my own. You’ll be able to be taught extra about me right here.
