Monday, January 10, 2011

closet space saver....

I think this ‘small space organizer’ is awesome. 
They sell these closet hanging shoe racks at places like Walmart, Target and IKEA. 
No more then $15 ea. and often in different colors. Some also havedrawers that you can insert into the space. I prefer the 
no-drawer version for my clothes and the drawer version for my shoes.
For the space of less then a foot on my closet bar, I can store ALL of my t-shirts and my shorts. Again, like my shelves, I can see everything in the stack.. a fact that I love. Small things like underwear and socks can be stored in the optional drawer and just slid into one of the spaces. I like to store those items in decorative baskets on my shelves...



Sunday, January 2, 2011

the perfect little desk

I spend a lot of time at my desk at home BUT I have a small room and don't have much space for a large desk. I found a great "student" desk on craigslist for $40. I brought it home and realized that once I put my monitor on top that I didn't have space for the keyboard... not to mention IF the keyboard did fit, I would be sitting just inches from the screen...NOT good. I was sooo bummed. I loved this little desk. I pulled out the drawer to see if maybe I could attach a keyboard shelf and found that by just turning over the drawer and sliding it back in that it made the perfect spot for my keyboard.I still need to paint the bottom of the drawer so it looks nicer, but I couldn't be happier with the way the little desk worked out and it hardly takes up any space at all.