Remember my house is less then 800sq feet. I have 2 bedrooms, kitchen/dining room (the biggest area of the entire house), living room, 2.5 closets, and a bathroom you can't turn around in. Yet some how some way I find a way to stuff it full???
Don't get me wrong, I'm not a hoarder by any means....but really where does the stuff come from?
The 3 boys share the master bedroom which is about 1/4 of the house. In there they have 3 beds, 3 dressers, a bookcase (that holds their buckets of toys n tv) and a double door panty cupboard that holds their books
It may seem strange that we keep book in a cupboard but we have SOOOO many book we had too....if you opened the doors it literally puked out books (well till today anyways...we went threw them and donated 2 full garbage bags to a local church).
Last year I purchased new bed set for the boys. They are all upper bunks that came with a matching dresser n bookcase that fit underneath. I thought they would be perfect! Boy was I wrong they are massive. Where I was hoping they would fit once together they didn't 😩
Alex and Dalton both have theirs set up as top bunks with a dresser underneath. Nathan was/is to young to sleep on a top bunk yet so his is down, we store our bins of toys under his bed.
Now I've said many times I'm so glad I don't have girls (clothes are way cuter, meaning I would buy more, and the toy options are unreal), we have one storage bin with just Lego and one with rescue heros (we did have a third that contained mega blocks but I'm happy to announce we have officially out grown mega blocks!)
On the bookcase we have 4 small buckets of toys (cars, action figures, toy story figures, and single mega block(dalton like to pretend they are army guys...so I guess we haven't completely out grown them)). We also keep or movies, a couple of Nathan's books (easier access for him) and some bigger cars/trucks. Then the tv on top!
Now the way Alex's room is set up its kind of like a room in itself! So he has his bed set, an a corner shelf that holds all his stuff (wrestling magazines, bins, packs of paper, notebooks of paper, oh and more paper)...I took 4 bags of stuff out of that room today! And they still aren't lacking for toys, but we are down to toys that are honestly played with daily!
My room is so tiny that between my queen size bed shoved in the one corner, my dresser and clothing rack (now that I own clothes that need to be hung up!) there is enough floor space to take 2 steps from one side to the other....I honestly LOVE IT! It's orange and brown and girly and mine!!!!
My bathroom is a nightmare...I'm not joking. We have redone it at least 5 times since living here, trying to make is seem bigger but still have storage??? Not easily done. It's a pedestal sink with toilet right beside it...so close you could rest your arm if need be. And the tub. That's it. The cabnit I current have in there is 2' wide by 1' deep and it JUST fits. But it holds what I need to keep in there.
Closet...what do people with lots of closets actually keep in them??? I technology have 2 double clothes, and 2 singles. When my ex thought he would suprise me with a new washer/dryer combo he didn't measure correctly. We have to have a stackable (even the old set) and it was in a closet. Well the new set is 1 inch to wide to fit in that closet. So we had to move them into our one double closet (which really is just a pain, it's meant to store coats n shoes but site in the middle of the house??? Who walks threw their house to but there shoes n coat away?)
So now my single closet is a storage clothes (holds broom, laundry stuff, household stuff, tools, and what ever else doesn't seem to fit anywhere) the other single clothes has my extra towels, sheets, blankets, water tank, personal hygiene stuff (again the shelf in there is 1.5'x6". That's it...and it's jammed full!
The second double closets hold all of our extras (out of season clothes, coats, a shelving unit (with playdoh, costumes, craft stuff)and what ever else we need to store)
Thankfully behind the boys dressrs is just enough space to hide tote boxes (this has all the clothes for the next season....I hate paying full price so I shop out of season)
The kitchen/dining room is becoming my favorite area...slowly. It's such a big space and it's so open it's almost a pain. The dinning room has been many different types of rooms (we actually have an eat in kitchen if you want to use it that way). The dinning room has been a play room, a sitting room, a bedroom (twice), a storage area and currently it's a computer/study area and holds all my business item (now neatly hidden in the cupboards!!!)
One day when it's completely clear (I'm talking dishes, kids, kid project, and odds and end) I will post some picture
My house may be small, but it's mine and it's slowly becoming a grown up place and not one that is over run with kid items!!!
It's come along way in the last 2 years and I'm so close to being complete I can almost see the final picture!!!!
Stay toned for pictures soon!!!!
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