Pallet for Home: Organizing

Showing posts with label Organizing. Show all posts

Who knew vinyl tiles could make me so happy? :)

A few months ago we had a not-so-great surprise under our kitchen sink. Unknown to us, our garbage disposal had a huge crack in it and was leaking water for a long a time. I finally noticed what was going on when I went to pull out the cleaning bucket to reorganize it. The bottom of the bucket was wet and grimy. When I looked into the cabinet, I noticed some ugly water damage. We replaced the garbage disposal but I have always been so bummed about the water damage left behind.
This is what we were left with (after it has been cleaned, bleached, and dried out for quite some time):

Yucky Water Damage

I saw a great idea on HGTV. I bought a few vinyl tiles at Home Depot and lined the bottom of the cabinet. They were easy to cut (score then snap apart) then firmly press to the cabinet. In the end, it not only hides the ugly water damage, but it also provides the cabinet with a waterproof lining (and it looks nice).

Peel and Stick Vinyl Tiles

20 minutes later....DONE!

In all, it was a $6 fix! Love it!

What water damage?!

I gave the extra tiles I bought to a friend. This was the photo she sent me from her phone! YAY! I am not the only one that loves these things :)

Nice job, Amanda!

Continue..

Filed Under: House, Organizing

What a Wrapping Mess!

Every time I go to wrap a gift, I am haunted by this box underneath the guest bed. Sure, it made sense when we lived in a very small compact house but now that we have closet space, there is no reason to hide this ugly, cramped, and unorganized wrapping paper box under a bed (notice my wonderful helpers in this project)!

My solution (thanks to my mother's idea) is to take a shelf in our linnen closet and turn it into a wrapping shelf.

All I needed were a few random supplies from the garage - a basket (I ended up using more than one), a hanger, and a few zip-ties.

I bent the hanger so that it would create a block for the rolls of wrapping paper so that they wouldn't roll off of the shelf. Then I used the zip-ties to hold the hanger in place. It's quite ugly so I made sure it wasn't visible from the doorway. My dad was the genius behind this clever fix in my mom's wrapping paper closet.