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Hey, Friends! Hope you all are well and adjusting to this new season of social distancing. How are you all coping? My aunt and I were joking about how we are coping with cleaning or painting all the things. Haha! In case you are in an organize everything mode to cope, I figured it was high time I got our linen closet organization up on the blog!
I organized it a couple weekend ago while we were prepping to move out so our floors could be refinished. It was so much easier to move it all out and back in after I cleaned it out! I mean…check out the before! Yikes! There had been some semblance of organization before, but it had gone to the wayside and things had just gotten shoved in there.
I started by taking everything out and ruthlessly purging anything I wasn’t using. Then, I found some baskets to organize what I was keeping. I had trouble finding bins that fit on the shelves and were still able to be pulled in and out easily. Most bins are 12″ wide, but I needed 11″. I finally lucked out with these water hyacinth baskets from The Container Store and really love them!
They hold a bunch and I love that they are long enough to utilize the shelf all the way to the back!
I used them to sort categories like household supplies, candles, first aid, sheets, and table runners.
On the top two shelves, I stored our beach towels and household cleaners. I found that since the beach towels are so big, they worked best outside of a bin.
The cleaners were always such a mess, mostly because they were over my head and hard to reach. I didn’t want to lower them down, though, because I wanted them out of the reach of the kids. I decided to store the cleaners on two of these lazy susans so I can easily just turn the lazy susan and access the cleaner I’m looking for. Works like a charm! Why has it taken me so long to figure this out?!
On the floor of the closet, I repurposed these white woven bins from another room to store all of our rags. The bins are really tall, so they hold a ton! I have one for old towels for cleaning and another for our Bona mop heads and microfiber cloths. I recently discovered these microfiber cloths on Amazon and they’re great and pretty inexpensive!
There you have it, our neat and tidy linen closet! Fun fact, this is the first time we have ever been able to store sheets in our *linen* closet. That feels monumental! High fives for purging the mess out of this closet and making room!
Stay well, Friends!
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