Before and After plus Shelves!

As you can see, I have these photo's stored on picasa as well, but I thought I would tell you a little about them, so you can see some of my work.

This is a friend's kitchen pantry. We took everything out, cleaned the shelves and arranged as so. She was right there telling me what she used and didn't use often. We put the less used things on the higher shelves since she is vertically challenged.

This is a set of three stacked plastic drawers in her home. The first one being her craft drawer (which she said she could never find anything in). We organized that with bags standing up so that she can remove things and look through things without going through whole piles.

Next is her paper drawer. She has all these lovely pads of various sizes and colors and I'm not sure she even remembered they were there! It took a similar look, standing the paper on end so it was more accessible.

Last is the school supply. As you can see, it had some of the extra paper and crafting in it, so it was drastically trimmed down. Later we were even able to add her plastic containers of crayons to the drawer as well.

This set of drawers was a Hodge-podge of a bunch of things. I first combined all the extra school supplies in those drawers into one. Next was the music instruments and art supplies and lastly the games and misc things left.

We filled a small garbage bag with items from the drawers that were useless (including some very old candy). She can now, mostly at a glance, locate the items she wants in her 2 sets of drawers AND her pantry. All of this took about two hours total. She had some containers saved up for me and some bags for me to use. Add a few boxes and a sharpie and I had all my supplies!

Now the next two pictures she did on her own. I was so impressed I had to include them.

She home schools her children, so this was a place for their books and things for various subjects. She bought most of the material for this at the dollar store. The boxes for each subject are covered in shelving paper and the shelves themselves in tiles. I think it looks fantastic!

My next post will delve into pictures people have sent in and how I would go about organizing them. Until then, send me more pictures AND more questions!