My kitchen table is constantly covered with art projects and my storage for all the art materials was inefficient and messy.
A bin for crayons, a bin for markers, a bin for each type of paper, etc... It makes me so happy!
We all have spots in our house that make us crazy. A place that always appears messy and unorganized.
For the last year and a half, the kids? arts and craft supplies in the kitchen have been making me batty. ?All three kids are constantly using crayons, markers, scissors, glue, paper, and leaving the supplies all over the kitchen table. They also were always asking for white paper (stored by the computer), card stock (stored in the office desk), or notebook paper (stored in the laundry room).
I had part of the art supplies in a crazy triangular kitchen cabinet that isn?t very efficient. The suppliers were stacked and whenever they would reach in, it would fall over, Also they rarely put the stuff back. I also had some supplies in a rolling file cabinet that was meant for vertical files, not horizontal coloring books and crayons.
I needed one place where all the supplies could be stored together by category and where the
kids could pull it out and put it away easily!
All the bins in the box neat and orderly!
So one night I went searching on Pinterest for kids? arts and crafts organization. I loved seeing photos of different families? solutions. I don?t have an arts and crafts room so it needed to be a something that would work in the kitchen. It also needed to be something easy for the kids to clean up by themselves.
On the site I saw the IKEA Trofast. It is basically boxes with grooves where the plastic tubs (of different depths) just slide in. So they could pull the tub of crayons out, use them and then slide them back in.
The bonus here is they all like to sit and draw on top of the storage unit so it?s made a nice little art nook for them.
(Check out my boards on Pinterest for other home organization ideas and solutions. You can also post photos of your home challenges on our Facebook page. We can offer ideas and photos of possible solutions there.)
My other area is the shoe area. For the longest time all the shoes fit in one basket that sat under a table so I didn?t see it. But at some point I guess as the kids? feet got bigger and the shoes stopped fitting in the one basket. I was looking for months for a bench with three baskets so each child would have their own basket for shoes. But I just wasn?t willing to spend $300 for this. So I finally ran across a large basket with a top on it (so I don?t have to stare at the shoes!) that was on sale at The Hobby Lobby for about $25.
One happy little girl who has all her supplies together and a perfect sunny spot to sit and draw.
What are your home organizational challenges? Post them on Pinterest or on our Facebook page and we can try to help solve them.
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