Organizing My Everything Closet

“Own Less, do less and say NO!”  Geoffrey Godbey

This has to be my philosophy when it comes to things in my small kitchen.  I do not have a lot of cabinets or a lot of counter space.  I try my best to keep only the things that I am using daily in the kitchen.  Otherwise items that I only use once in a while like small appliances, serving dishes, need to go in the back closet.  I do not have a pantry.  My back closet serves as my Kitchen over flow closet.  The only food I keep in the closet is “football treats” and homemade cookies that I am hiding from my son because he eats them all in one day.   I also need to keep bathroom towels and first aid things in there as well.   I have a small laundry room so I have to keep the ironing board, mop and swifter in here too.

So this is my Everything Closet.  I am thankful for this project because I did not realize how dirty this closet was.  I had a lot of stuff thrown in this closet.  

I cleaned out the closet and washed the whole thing from top to bottom.  Then my son, Andrew, painted the closet for me.   It took two coats of paint.

I think it looks amazing!   :)  

I spray painted the old brown shelf, white so it would blend in with the closet.  I picked up a few more baskets from Target to organize things.  I donated a few items I no longer use to the Goodwill. 

I washed out the white crates and found another to match so the whole closet looks white. 

I organized all the first aid supplies into this drawer organizer from Target.

And now I have a clean and organized “Everything Closet”  that does not look cluttered!  Yeah!

I linked this post up with A Bowl Full of Lemons!