Before & After - WookieMouse's Organizational Challenge

The original Organize Your Stuff Challenge blog:

To complete the final phase of the challenge - below are before and after shots of the various spaces of my house with scrap stuff. In my case, I moved from Dining Room (with overstock in the basement cupboards) to the Play Room and a new office area.

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Before: Dining Room



Yes, a hot mess. And I wasn't even scrapping this particular day.

After: Dining Room



This was inspired by a Pottery Barn catalog photo. Love my caramel walls (Behr Slice) and floating shelves! I'm still counting this is a scrap space, since I organize, edit and print photos here, along with digi scrap and computer journal. It isn't usually quite this clutter-free, but it is much easier to maintain than it was before I divorced the home office from the scrap stash. This is the only area I spent money on for furniture and prettifying, since we look at this everyday from the dining room table.

Before: Basement Overstock Stash


Yep, this was only part of my stash - what didn't fit in the armoire when it was upstairs.

After: Basement Work Area and Stash



Everything old is new again - my work area is the 6 foot table that was my work space in our old apartment. I bought the IKEA chair off Craigslist for $10. The Rubbermaid cube system was on clearance at Office Max. I keep reconfigured slightly as I've sold some unused items and rethought what I need in arm's reach.


The shelving unit (formerly armoire) holds:
memorabilia and dangerous stuff
paper (left)
items still to be purged (left bottom)
cardmaking (right top)
idea books & Library of Memories (right)
die cutting (right middle)
memorabilia and alterable items (right bottom)

There is still a tiny bit of stuff left in the bottom basement cupboard - mostly my album and page protector overstock and some more items to purge. My goal is to continue to use it all up - I'd like to get rid of the shelves and fit all my paper stash in the blue tote on the floor and on the table. So I've got to get scrapping!