I get to write this post for the second time since blogger was having issues and lost some content. I must admit it’s a little frustrating! ANYWAY, my daughters room has been sliding lately due to the fact we haven’t had any company for a couple of weeks and so no desperate cleaning and picking up has been going on. After a couple of innocent comments from my hubby on the state of her room, I aggressively tackled it. Here are the lovely before shots:
Obviously her room needed some attention. I stripped the sheets, and gathered it with the other laundry I found under the bed.
Made a trash pile:
Had my daughter approve some toys to move to the basement play area:
Here is an in progress shot:
After some cleaning, putting toys and animals away, and fresh sheets, here are the after pictures!
It looked so nice and inviting that my daughter and son wanted to go in there and start taking everything off the shelves to play with, but that’s how it goes! We bought these shelves as sets of 9 cubes and attatched them together and to the wall, and they really do make clean up fairly quick and painless.
I organize my daughter hair accessories in a shoe bag on the back of her door, and it works well also.
While I don’t want to be obsessive about keeping my home tidy, ( and I’m not) it IS so much more enjoyable to be in an organized calm space.
Next week I think I will tackle her closet!
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That looks fantastic!
Love the shoe organizer idea!
Looks great! Love the night table drawers!
Adorable room! I love her bedding, where did you find it? It would go perfectly in my twins’ room!
Looks wonderful! I’m wondering if those cubbies would fit against my sons wall… hmmmmm, now I’ll have to measure! Great job.
Thankyou so much for your comments! I bought her bedding at Target. The cubbie units are 36 inches.
Your brave efforts paid off! Great job, love the cubes for storage and the rug!!! jules
hi, you did some lovely work here… i am tackling my studio so i can REALLY appreciate your accomplishments ( -:
And grrr to Blogger… I have been so frustrated with my inability to leave comments… so happy it’s fixed. Have a lovely day! Malia
what a difference a little organization makes! her room looks darling! i found you on dittle dattle’s link party. stop over and say hi sometime! andiejaye @ http://crayonfreckles.blogspot.com
Great job!
Hi Margo…this is what I need to be doing, thanks for the inspiration. You may want to join my newbie party, that I host every Monday.
Looks really great! I love cubbies… and also love the shoe organizer you used for her hair accessories.
Thanks for linking this up to my Organizing Mission link party
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What a great way to organize hair goodies! I’m going to have to pick me up a shoe organizer the next time I’m at Wally World.
Looks great!! Love the hair accessory holder and cubicles. Stopping by from The Shabby Chic Cottage blog hop.
Here is what I posted: http://craftybrooklynarmywife.blogspot.com/2011/05/wool-buffalo-check-coat-finished.html
What a transformation! Now I am thinking of a way to do this with my 20 year old college kid’s room. Maybe there is hope!
Great transformation!
Thanks for linking this up as well!
xoxo,
Vanessa @ {nifty thrifty things}
Wow- Her room really looks wonderful! So organized and neat… okay, you have motivated me- I gotta get going on my organizing too
Thank you for sharing this at Feathered Nest Friday- hope you will come share again soon!
One of my favorite things to do is organize my kids rooms. It always makes me feel so much better. I hate a mess. Thanks for sharing at my Swing into Spring party.
Hi, Margo! I’m admiring all your creative posts here so can you please share them with us at the Creative Bloggers’ Party & Hop? Hope to see you there at the party
Looks great! My daughter has the same bedding.
Where did you purchase the cubbies? Those look really handy.
Those cubbies are exactly what I’ve been looking for for my kids’ rooms! Hope I can find some locally that don’t cost an arm and a leg. There’s no ikea for like 200 miles
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My oldest has the same bed set! Lol. I love Target =) Those cubbies rock. I’m getting some from Ikea next month – before I go crazy with the stupid toy bin we have lol. Her room looks great!! Kudos =)