Showing posts with label honey do list. Show all posts
Showing posts with label honey do list. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 6, 2013

DIY Laundry Sorter

So everybody knows how much I "LOVE" doing laundry.  I can never get ahead of it.  When I think I'm on the last load-I find more somewhere.  Anyway, so my laundry room has been a hot mess for a really long time.  I was alway really bad about leaving clothes in the laundry baskets and not putting them away-so to make myself get off my ass, I started making it easier to put clothes away.  I put a hanging rack so that I can hang clothes up right out of the dryer.  Then all I have to do is take the hang up stuff upstairs and put it in the closet.

The hang up rack only solved one problem.  The other problem was with all of the dirty clothes on the floor.  I couldn't deal with it anymore!  So I'm patrolling Pinterest one day, and I see this awesome post about a laundry sorter.  (You can find that post here).  So I whined at Aaron to make me one just like it!  It didn't take much whining, because he was tired of the clothes everywhere too.  So one day when we were at Menards, we bought the supplies needed.  This is how it turned out:


Aaron measured the width of the laundry baskets and hung the wall strip thingies to match.  We got the extra heavy duty brakets to set the baskets on.  

A couple of other things that I added to the tiny laundry room is a piggy bank and random catch all bin on the dryer (for the stuff that we leave in our pockets), a rubbermaid container for Amelia's clothes that don't fit anymore, and a Goodwill basket for stuff we need to get rid of.  

I actually don't hate doing laundry now!!! (except on the weekends-I'm not doing it :)  no wonder it's neverending!)

What kinds of things do you do to make your laundry easier to deal with?

xoxo,

Emily



Tuesday, February 14, 2012

First Pinterest Project!

Here is my first Pinterest project!  I did it all for $5!  I bought the plinth at West End Architectural Salvalage in Des Moines for $4, the spoon at Bissell Springs Antique Sale in Earlham for $1, I had the candle (color to match our wedding colors), and the nail and superglue.  It was super easy-and honestly its the first thing I have really made like this!  I hung it under a picture from our wedding reception.  I might eventually trade the candle out for purple hydrangeas (also at our wedding).




What do you think?

xoxo,
Emily