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One Hour Kids Closet Transformation

Jen — Wed, 26 Jul 2017 17:20:13 +0000

One Hour Kids Closet Transformation

This is a sponsored conversation written by me on behalf of Rubbermaid®. The opinions and text are all mine.

I am getting married in less than a month! There has been so much to do and we are so excited! Our most important focus and goal has been making things comfortable for our new blended family. One thing we have been working on is changing the guest room in our home into a bedroom for my fiancee’s 9-year-old daughter. We want to make a special place for her in our home so she knows how welcome she is. As we have been making this special space for her, one of the things we have wanted to do was customize the closet in that room for her. So when Rubbermaid contacted me about trying out their Rubbermaid ® HomeFree Series – I was very excited. Previously this space was a place was a storage area and was pretty messy! LOL.

It already had some shelving so I was thrilled when I saw that Rubbermaid ® HomeFree Series is so customizable and easy to use. Rubbermaid ® HomeFree Series is a SUPER easy, kit-based closet system and it unique telescoping rods and shelves so it can fit in any space and you don’t have to cut anything!

I went over to my Lowes store to check it out. The Rubbermaid ® HomeFree Series is in the closet organizing section of the store and the kits are easy to find. I also was very impressed with all of the add-ons for the system – like drawers, shelves and accessories. I knew it would be perfect for our odd-spaced closet.

I used Rubbermaid’s Online Closet Design Tool to map out my space and see what kit and accessories would work for our space.

Based on the design tool we saw that the Rubbermaid ® HomeFree Series 3-6 foot kit would work. We wanted to use the closet for all of my step-daughter’s clothes, we also purchased some Rubbermaid ® HomeFree Series drawers that are designed to add onto the main kit.

Then we came home and got to work. After we cleaned out the closet, we got the pieces out of the kit that we needed and in FOUR easy steps we had a new closet that she will love! Here’s what we did.

We measured how high we wanted the tallest shelf and where the long rails would go in the closet. To ultilize the Rubbermaid ® HomeFree Series design, the rails needed to be 22 inches apart so that the drawers we purchased would work. With the Rubbermaid ® HomeFree Series system you don’t have to drill the rails into studs and I LOVED that. Instead there are sturdy anchors you can use if you don’t have studs that will work inside your wall. You drill a hole and put the unique drywall anchors inside and they hold the screw in place. This made it really easy to put the rails where we wanted and it made the closet much more visually appealing.
We hung the vertical rails and top rail.
Then we hung the shelves and rods. The shelves and rods are telescoping so there is no cutting. All we had to do was layer the shelves together and telescope them to the right width. Then the brackets had a little lever and it holds the shelves securely. We did the same thing with the clothes rods.
The last thing we did was install the drawers. The drawers come pretty much ready to go in the package. All we had to do was attach the included brackets onto the sliding rails on the drawer frame and then put the brackets into the vertical rails and drop the basket inside the frame. Easy.

Within an hour we had a closet that will work great for my fiancee’s nine year old daughter. She has two rails to hang her clothes, shelves for her toys and books and drawers for clothes that are awkward to hang like underwear, socks and pajamas.

I added a wire clothes hamper that goes along with the look of her new shelves. We can’t wait to see her face when she sees her new closet!!

Thank you Rubbermaid for letting us makeover our daughter’s new closet with your Rubbermaid® HomeFree Series — it was easy to use and she is going to love it!

Have a Beautiful Day!

xoxo

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Getting Organized — How to Organize Your Closet & Dresser!!

Jen — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 19:13:26 +0000

Hello there Tatertots & Jello readers, I am super excited to be back here with you! Today I am sharing with you how I organize my dresser and closet. Yep, I am actually going to show you insidemy dresser and closet {gasp}!!!

Usually dressers and closets look organized from the outside but do you ever wonder what is going on behind closed doors or inside the dresser drawers? Well I do! {I know I’m weird}.

Today I’m going to show you my secrets for how I keep my drawers and closet organized.

Are you ready???

Before I let you peek in my drawers let me start by saying that my biggest piece of advice, when it comes to organizing your dresser drawers, is to purchase some inexpensive organizers. I purchased a couple sets of these at IKEA and they were worth every penny!

Here is what the inside of my top drawer looks like.

By filling my top drawer with the organizers it takes my top drawer from a mess of socks, underwear and bras to a beautifully organized drawer where everything has it’s place. I know a lot of people don’t fold their underwear but it’s my belief that if you take a few extra minutes to fold them then it will save you lots of time each morning while you’re getting ready. If underwear, socks, bras, etc. are nicely folded and easily accessible it will take you seconds each morning to grab what you need, instead of minutes of searching for what you need.

I also used the Skubb organizers in my husband’s top drawer to organize all of his stuff. I can’t make my husband be organized but I can help him out by giving him a place for everything.

Truth be told though my husband loves to have a “junk pile”. He is a very clean person {one of the things that attracted me to him} but he always has a little pile of junk lying around on the dresser. I don’t mind him having a junk pile, I just don’t want to look at it, which is why I gave him a whole box, in his top drawer, just for his “junk”. I’m so nice.

Moving on down to the second drawer. My advice for the second drawer of your dresser is to place the things you wear the most in this drawer. This means that in the summer it will probably be full of tank tops and shorts, in the winter jeans and sweaters. Everything should be folded nicely and easily accessible. My jeans are color coordinated: light on the top, dark on the bottom, that way it is easy to grab what I need in just a few seconds.

Here is what my bottom drawer looks like. Yes, there are more jeans in there. I have a lot of jeans so I have them broken up into two categories: everyday jeans and dressy jeans. My everyday jeans are in the second drawer because I wear them, well, everyday. My dressy jeans are in the bottom drawer so that they aren’t mixed in with the others, and because I don’t wear them as often I don’t want them in the way. In the bottom drawer I also have tank tops, I wear them all year long as undershirts, and my PJs. Everything is folded nicely and easily visible.

I know it takes a few more minutes to fold things nicely and place them in the drawers in an organized way but I promise you it will make your life so much easier in the mornings when you are getting ready. I can actually pull things out of my drawers in the dark because I know exactly where everything is!

Now onto the closet…

Just like in your dresser drawers, in the closet there should be a designated place for everything. The top shelf of the closet can be tricky because it’s way up there and if you don’t have a plan for it, items can “disappear”. Purchasing inexpensive baskets for your items is a great way to solve this problem. I bought these baskets at Target and they are perfect for my closet, plus I love green!

Next I took everything down off the shelf and items them in the baskets. Categorize your baskets so that your items are easy to find.

Then I labeled each basket. This way I know exactly what is in each basket without having to take it down. If you have a Cricuit or a Silhouette you can easily make cute labels for the baskets, or if you don’t have one, like me, then you can purchase some. I found these on Etsy, $7.00 for 10.What a difference a few baskets can make! For under $30 my closet is beautifully organized and labeled! I love it!

For my husbands closet I used different baskets, I didn’t think he’d want something “cute”, but it’s the same idea. In the large bins, stacked on the right I have all of our seasonal clothes stored. Each Spring/Fall I get them down and switch all of our clothes out.

Now that you’ve seen behind closed drawers and doors what do you think? Do you have any tips for how you organize your closet and dresser? I would love it if you stopped by Ask Annaand shared your ideas with me!Thank you so much for having me today Jen!!! As always, it’s been a pleasure!

Thanks Anna! I love your organization posts!!Be sure to follow along with Anna and all of her great ideas. Here are a few of her latest:

Thankful Tree

Have you ever wondered the best way to clean blinds. Anna tells you how!

How about how to Organize all of those pesky cords? Anna tells you how!

Anna will get you organized!! Be sure to follow along with her

xoxo