Do you suffer from piles? Piles of dust collectors? These are piles of important items. Not ready for recycling now or maybe never.
I'm talking about photographs, magazine and newspaper clippings and books. You probably have sales receipts, forms for ordering your favorite products and the catalogs that belong to these products. Stacks of business records you dare not throw out or recycle. I bet you have a pile of things you plan to organize and discard. These piles keep getting larger and larger.
What can you do?
Let's start with some storage ideas.
Look around and see what you have that can be used for storage. Perhaps you have an old toy chest you just can't part with. Try this idea.
Paint it any color you choose, put it by a window and toss a couple of pillows on top. Now it's extra seating. It can also hold extra dishes, pots and pans, linens, towels, canned goods, you name it. The toy chest masquerading as a window seat in my home holds the family collection of winter mittens, scarves, gloves, ski masks and hats. Sounds like a lot of winter accessories. I keep extra on hand for the little people who visit my home and desire to play outside in the snow.
Instead of a kitchen table, think kitchen island. Sound expensive? Using this idea I promise you extra storage room and a very affordable price.
Decide an approximate size and location for a kitchen island in your kitchen. Carry your measurements with you, along with a tape measure. Look for old buffets, used cabinets or a bookshelf. I found a wonderful used kitchen cabinet with two slide out shelves. The shelves were concealed by doors. It even has casters on the corners so I can move it around with ease.
I painted it and gave it new hardware. I lined it with brightly colored contact paper. For the counter top I used an old door that was long enough to hang over the ends. The door made it wide enough to allow two or three chairs to be pulled up close.
Now I had seating and lots of extra storage space I did not have before. My kitchen island also has a long wide drawer. The drawer is a great place for napkins and table cloths. There is even enough extra space for the dish towels.
One slide out drawer holds my collection of old mixing bowls, plastic wrap, tinfoil, waxed paper and cookbooks I can not live without.
The bottom slide out drawer holds a winters worth of canned goods and three clear plastic boxes. The plastic boxes contain business records, receipts, ordering forms, catalogs, photographs and article clippings.
Piles be gone.
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