Category Archives: Organization

GARAGE!!!

WOOOOOO!!! The day we have all (ok mainly just me) been waiting for: garage space day! Our landlord came by last night to give us the remote/code so it is officially time to start moving in. He has probably never seen anyone quite as excited about an empty half of a garage before. What can I say? It’s the little things for me! :)

Ok, enough chatter!  Check out this bad boy. To any of you living in a house this probably is laughable. But anyone in a city apartment will vouch for me when I say that this is SO incredibly helpful and awesome. Even if it is a bit dingy…

Time to begin moving things into the garage.  Knowing me, I will probably go way overboard with this and the apartment will be empty. We will end up living out of the garage! I know our sad kitchen will be happy.

Anyway, stay tuned… perhaps I will post an update later today with our progress.

Update: After one lunch break of moving stuff into the garage, I am already super pumped! Our kitchen is clean back to normal and the apartment is feeling more spacious already. We still have some closets to sort through but as my mom so eloquently put it, we are “moving up in the world!”

Out of the Closet

I have been highly unmotivated all week.  But after Monday’s post, I realized I needed to do something about the lack ‘o garage disaster situation (ok, Erika, let’s not be dramatic) instead of just complain about it. So we decided to clear some space in the kitchen to make room for one “for the garage” pile that is mostly out of the way.  This way, we can clean the rest of the house and work through weeding out our stuff at a less scary pace (versus doing everything the weekend we get the garage).  So I started sorting through the two closets in the apartment to remove anything that we will put in the pile.  Then it makes things easier to reorganize from there.  I haven’t made a TON of progress but I feel better in the apartment already. It had some claustrophobic juju going on before!  Alright, so our kitchen looks like a mess but I can ignore that for the most part since I can’t see it from the living area.  :)

Hey Erika! Sorry this was taken in a mirror… :)

We both have already gone through the keep/toss game when we moved in together a few months ago so there isn’t much we really want to throw out.  So over the next couple weeks we are going to be reorganizing to better use the space. After our garage pile is gone, I am excited to tackle bigger projects like the new desk and perhaps a little kitchen island/cart?  More juicy details to come.

Erika

I’m Erika, an interior designer with an aesthetic that is a mix of California Bohemian, Mid-Century, and Scandinavian influences with pops of fun color and loads of natural materials. Plus plants, plants, and more plants!

My sweet family (Walker, Juniper & Hank, as well as pups Arlo & Guillermo) just reloacted from Los Angeles, CA, to Lincoln, NE. We would love for you to follow along with us on this journey!

 
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