I’m one of those people who has everything together in my professional life. I’m super Type A to a tee when it comes to keeping appointments, meeting deadlines and having the appearance of all things perfect. When it comes to my personal life, however, I can be pretty disorganized.
This is one of things my boyfriend realized about me when we first started dating and he began spending more time at my apartment. While my apartment is clean and organized and decorated, what’s behind closed doors is anything but. He’d go to hang up his coat in the closet and it was like a bomb went off inside. So, after nearly a year of prodding from him, I decided to bite the bullet and organize my closets and under my sinks.
Being wired the way I am, I did a load of research on the best organizing items that will help me better store my things but also look pretty. The products I determined fit both qualifications are:
Design Ideas WaterHyacinth baskets
I love the country aesthetic of hyacinth baskets, to the point that I think they also look great in a bedroom or bathroom, adding a warm touch to places. I went with Design Ideas WaterHyacinth baskets in large and medium sizes. The large $79, is very spacious and fit so many bath towels and two full sets of bed sheets in each one.
Now, the not so fun part. I lined the baskets up on my bed and took everything that had been haphazardly stored on a giant top shelf in my biggest closet and sorted it on my couch. This is where my bath towels, bedding, clutches, pantry of shampoos, conditioners and body wash all lived together in unity for two years. In retrospect, the way it was stored made it really hard to find the items I needed at any given time, so organizing them was vital.
I folded the towels and put them in the large hyacinth baskets. In another, I folded up all of my additional bedding. A third stored my clutches and sunglasses. Yet a fourth help all of the personal care items that had been strewn about the closet.
Once I saw all the good prettily arranged in pretty baskets, I began getting excited. I brought them over to the closet and stacked them and it made the closet look so much cleaner and organized. I couldn’t wait to do a big reveal for my boyfriend after we got home from dinner later in the night.
Next up: tackling the under-the-sink disasters in both my kitchen and bathroom. For this disaster area, I enlisted two amazing but low-cost products from MadeSmart. The first was their two-level storage bins and the second was their baskets for under the sink organizing, just $7.99.
Prior to using this system, both my bathroom sink and kitchen sink area were a disorganized jumble of cleaning, makeup and the products that were scattered everywhere with no rhyme or reason. I cleared out both sinks and organized the products by category in each MadeSmart bin and put them back and just like that it was organized but also freed up so much more space in my sink because I was using my vertical space with the second tier.
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