This year I feel like I need to get more organised, I use to be, I use to love a routine, love lists and had a place for everything. I remember feeling less cluttered and my mind was clearer.
However that was before the twins arrived, and I only had 1 child to look after! I had a great routine with the twins but everything else went to pot!
Recently we have re designed our lounge, shut off the kitchen door and created a whole new wall to fill. This has given us a lot more room to work with in both the kitchen and the lounge/dining room.
It needs to be a multi functional room. A lounge, dining room and office. It also needs to work for 5 people, and with me working from home I need a proper space that I can work at, organise myself and have a place to store everything.
I have my lovely new desk, which I just love. Just don’t open the drawers and cupboards as they are on my list to get organised!
HomeSense gave me a challenge of bringing in some new storage into our home, I got hubby to pop some new oak shelves up on the wall where the old opening use to be. I have only put one up, but I need more! It is calling to be filled with shelves and storage.
However I didn’t want to just chuck a load of stuff up on them and for it look even messier. I took a visit one morning to HomeSense, the staff must have wondered what I was doing, as it took me over an hour to decide which boxes to go for! Why do they have so much choice!
In the end I decided on these boxes to go on the shelves. They are really sturdy, with flip lids and beautiful patterns. I can fill with anything I want and nobody knows what is inside them!
I have lots of camera accessories, cables, and attachments. Now I can hide them away but also have quick access to them.
It looks really bland in this photos, but like I said I have a plan to fill the wall up with more shelves and more boxes!
I also picked up these lovely grey and white fabric ones. I have filled one with random cables and electrical items. We have so many cables for different things, so it will be nice to know where they all are.
The other one has my daily makeup and hair items, I always do my make up in my lounge mirror so want it to hand. It also means that it is all in one place and not sat on my fireplace like it has been for years!
The other area that needed some storage was magazines, I have lots of home magazines that get piled up everywhere. So now they have a place, this storage fabric box is a really sturdy box and the perfect size to sit next to the sofa ready to pick up and read from.
I also hate all the plastic office storage items you get for pens and stationary, I wanted something a bit different. I saw a great idea of filling jam jars with pens and stationary from Caro at The Twinkle Diaries and thought how cute it was.
HomeSense is a perfect place for finding items like this, they had all sorts of sizes and styles to choose from. I think it looks really cute and now I can see where everything is and not end up hunting around all the drawers to find what I need!
I am going to make sure I keep attacking the storage issues in this house, which is also going to make me be more organised. I already feel so much better knowing where things are and not in different places. Also a big bonus is that it is easier to clean as I don’t have to keep moving things out the way to dust!
I also couldn’t resist bringing some of these beautiful flowers home with me, would you believe it they are faux flowers!
This bunch was already hand tied and I picked up a little vase from HomeSense to sit it in too.
Are you feeling in the mood to be more organised in 2016? If so give me your tips as I would love to hear them.
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Some great ideas here, we have recently had all the bedrooms renovated with fitted wardrobes from sharps However we still need these handy storage tips to keep toys and handy stuff we need daily accessible.
Hello Steph! Thanks so much for linking up with us! My house was hit with the dreaded winter sick bug last week so I’m so behind with my comments. Just catching up now! I absolutely LOVE what you’ve bought — and thanks so much for the lovely mention!! 🙂 I’m a sucker for lovely storage and, let’s face it, we can NEVER have too much of it, can we?!
PS #HomeEtc is live tomorrow from 6.30am xx
Your new space is looking great! I love storage, it’s the key to a happy home in my opinion 🙂 X #HomeEtc
We’re moving into a new home soon, and I’ve been looking around for ideas that were cute, simple and inexpensive. I love the fabric baskets! Pinned this post so I can remember it in a few weeks when I start my own organizing/decorations.
Thank you very much, a love a new home to moved into to start all over again at designing! Have fun
We could really do with some storage in this house but I think decluttering is the biggest problem.
I really like the box with the magazines in it then again I don’t read magazines.
It has made me have a good declutter, I have not wanted to put anything in these boxes that I didn’t need anymore!
these are some really good ideas for storage and getting rid of the clutter! I need some of those boxes… I’ve got clutter everywhere! #brilliantblogposts
It is so hard not to have clutter isn’t it! I think everyone does. Although now I can hide my clutter but also it made me get rid of loads before putting it in the pretty boxes!
I love the storage items you chose, they look fab!
I need to get the dining room organised ASAP as it’s pretty much our dumping ground for paperwork (oops)
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Hannah x
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I love your ideas…I am getting to the stage of starting to hide things away and the stationery in jam jars is a fab idea, I’ll be doing that. The boxes are so lovely, Homesense is great for picking up little bits and bobs like that! #HomeEtc
LOVE LOVE LOVE!! It looks amazing! I love how solid the desk looks, I love the little jars to store things in and I love the pretty boxes on top of the shelves 🙂
Gemma xx
Loving the great fabric storage bins. I am sorely tempted to get something like this as the drawer we have for electric cables etc is full to bursting. I may well be back to your blog; we’re about to refurbish our kitchen so need all the ideas we can get! #BrilliantBlogPosts
I’m such a home storage geek and would absolutely love these items. Thanks for sharing and I may be doing some shopping in the coming weeks. I just have a storage obsession. Angela from Daysinbed
Gosh those flowers do look real. I love the baskets you chose for your make up. I really like the colour. I used to be so organised too before the kids came along x
Some great storage ideas here. I need to start organising our house a little more, it’s so cluttered at the moment.
I love all your changes, so good! The glass jar mix is a really neat idea and I’m going to look into something similar x
They really are the pefect place for finding storage bits, love your choices, we bought some similar in there the other week for toys.
I really love hard at the moment. Those boxes though are so beautiful!! I need some more adult storage options.
Wow your house is so tidy with twins! I have a daughter plus twin boys and they are a force of destruction! I really like the storage boxes. I’m going to google if there is a HomeSense store locally as I would really like some of those faux flowers to get a bit of a spring vibe into my living room.