Let’s talk winter and your home. The holiday decorations are all put way and now what. Sometimes after the holidays and in the middle of winter, it’s nice for your decor to feel fresh and clean so this is an opportunity to focus on getting your closets organized. Gasp! Now is the time to give that linen closet a makeover!
Linen Closet Makeover
Are you that person that throws everything into a closet when you have five minutes before a guest arrives? I am! Then what happens to all that stuff? Do you go back and pull it out and organize it? Likely not. Let’s take back our closets and start with the linen closet. The dreaded linen closet. Does yours look something like this?
Take everything out of the linen closet
Brutal eh? What is all that stuff anyway?
This is, well was, mine. Yikes. Every time I opened it, something would fall out and I would find myself blaming the closet for being so disorganized. Sorry closet, I know it wasn’t your fault. So, I was determined to get this baby organized and pretty to look at every time I opened it to grab a towel or a band-aid.
So…pull everything out. Make piles for “keep”, “donation” and “trash”. I bet you your donation pile will be bigger than you think.
Fix anything that is broken
Fix anything that’s broken in the closet. Might as well do it now. Our house is over 100 years old and so is all the plaster. There were random holes back there and you can see at the bottom of the photo where a fire occurred in the house years ago (well before we lived there).
Storage accessories
Hit the dollar store, home stores, craft stores etc to get storage accessories. You’ll need bins/baskets, labels, shelving paper and I found this pretty wrapping paper that went up on those ugly walls. This whole project is inexpensive with fab rewards.
Just adding the wrapping paper made the closet look better already.
A few bins and labels and VOILA! an organized linen closet that makes me feel calm every time I open it.
and more bins!
The linen closet makeover is done!
One of these cold Ottawa days, tackle that linen closet makeover. You can do it! You’ll feel better!
Keep it Beautiful.
xo Alicia @keepitbeautifu1
Wow, great refresh to that closet! Definitely a good winter day chore to do.
What a great reno, and quick! Mine looks more that that first picture… I hope to tackle and organize mine this month at some point.
Great idea! Very inspiring!! I definitely have to do that in our linen closet!
Thats looks so nice and i love the color you chose
I need to do this so badly, love the refresh! Going to tackle this this week!
That closet is very impressive 🙂 Love the idea of papering it too, it makes such a huge difference. A job well done I’d say!
I have a closet at the end on my hall,and i cant wiat to dress it up like you have….i love it so fresh
You really did a beautiful job of freshening up the look of that closet.I can’t wait to try doing that to mine.Wow!! I am impressed.
OMG your closet looks beautiful and the bins can help to keep things contained and not all over but the wall paper is what makes it awesome
Wow, what a dramatic difference. You certainly have inspired me to organize some of my closets. Beautiful job!