Sucess

   My re-organizing is going very well and is almost complete.  This started this spring with me deciding I wanted the bookcase & linen cabinet I had in boxes put together.  Then I moved on to cleaning out the workout room and turning my office into a sewing room/office. I then turned my "talents" to assembling a cherry hutch for the breakfast nook that had also been in boxes for 8 years. I then tackled turning the workout room into a storage/guest room.  Complete with a  fresh paint job and new curtains! I have also made curtains for hubby's office - I always line the curtains so they are great at holding in the heat in the winter and keeping the upstairs cooler in the summer.  Made a dust ruffle for my daughter's bed, a basket liner for my office, and spent a memorable afternoon (UGH!) cleaning the shelves in the laundry room.


So here are a few before and after pics:
The corner of my office with my daughter's desk:

Now it is a sewing & genealogy corner:

This bookcase had been in a box on my bedroom floor for 7 or 8 years:

 and it matches my bedroom desk:

This place did not have enough linen closets so I have added some: 

this one in the hallway: 

this one had been in the hall but was woefully inadequate, so it moved to the hall bath: 

I had a cabinet in the hall bath but it did not match the decor - i.e. it wasn't white! So I moved it: 

This was the breakfast nook hutch: 

Now it has been re-purposed to the master bath!

This is the hutch I built- that is one solid piece:

The storage area before: 

Now my dining room (the piano & bench have been moved to the livingroom) :

The workout room as it once was- gathering dust:

And now as a fully-functioning storage room/guest room: 

Some of the exercise equipment now resides in the master bedroom- to inspire us to use it more I hope:

Hubby had the brilliant idea of storing dumbbells under our bureaus- great use of space! 

What is left? Well, I still need to move a file cabinet for my hubby upstairs (it needs a cleaning), clear a bit of space in the garage for grill storage, move the grill there, paint my small white-glass fronted cabinet and move it into the dining room, design a table centerpiece, make my daughter a set of curtains (already have the fabric), and buy a traverse curtain rod for the dining room.  Then do the outside "stuff" --weed, mulch, etc... Then I'm done -- for now.  We have lived in apartments for 24 of our 34 years of marriage and I was not aware that in many respects I treated the house we built as an apartment - boxes everywhere, nothing ever "settled", etc.  When I finally realized that this spring, I chose to finally "settle" into our home!