Full Speed Ahead On The Storage Room Project

Now that I’ve completed my outside tasks in the meanwhile, I’m able to focus 100% of my consideration on the storage room undertaking till it’s completed. I’m truly a bit bit unhappy about it as a result of I beloved 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 outside tasks when cooler climate will get right here, however for now, I have to give attention to inside tasks.

Originally of this yr, once I wrote my 2026 list of home goals, 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 undertaking that should get pushed to subsequent yr is my workshop.

There are three different areas which might be on my listing of objectives for this yr that also haven’t been completed. The primary is the breakfast room, which requires no building and simply must be embellished and turned again into an precise eating area with a desk and chairs as a substitute of a sitting room with recliners and a TV. After I “shopped my home” to finish different rooms, I took a number 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 gymnasium at one finish and a TV space on the opposite finish. This can be an enormous undertaking as a result of this room is at the moment crammed to the brim with stuff. It’s mainly an enormous storage room, however when it’s cleared out, it would 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 believed 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 potential, 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 via this storage room undertaking as quick as I can. Proper now, the room appears to be like like this…

That’s how I left it the final time I used to be pressured 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 need this undertaking to go as quick as potential, I’ve been searching for methods to make it sooner and simpler. I understand 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 with regards to deciding on what sort of storage cabinets I need for this room. I’ve thought of all the things from ready-made, adjustable wall models 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 vital. 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 give you a method that I can construct engaging storage cabinets with out going to all the hassle that I went to in my closet the place all the things is on show. Nothing on this storage room can be on show, so I don’t want this room to be that fancy. I need it to look good when it’s completed. And sure, there can be daring shade and wallpaper as a result of I like these issues and I need it to be enjoyable to take 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 aspect items of the shelving unit, and people areas create the helps for the cabinets. If she needs 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 to be like like. I feel that appears fairly wonderful!

I actually beloved this design as quickly as I watched that video (which you can watch here), and I’m contemplating constructing cabinets like this for my very own storage room. Like I mentioned, I simply need fast and straightforward. I need 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 may 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 need that as quickly as potential. I’d reasonably focus the majority of my time and power on areas that friends will truly see once they come to our home. In order that’s my mindset as I focus 100% of my consideration on this undertaking till it’s carried out.

Addicted 2 Adorning is the place I share my DIY and adorning journey as I rework and enhance 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 the vast majority of the work on the home on my own. You can learn more about me here.