Expedit: Kids Clothes & Open Shelving

We are in the process of rear­rang­ing & reor­ga­niz­ing the kids room. In the boys’ room we needed a new dresser, Mr. G’s was Mike’s from child­hood.  It was well loved, as it was used by Mike until after we were mar­ried & then by the kids.  How­ever, it’s time had come & we needed to fig­ure out to make the most of the space.  A space that will house 3 boys!  As D-man will move into the boys’ room mak­ing one room for boys & one for girls.  As we need to make our cur­rent space work in this nonex­is­tent hous­ing mar­ket!  Enter the idea to move to open shelv­ing which will take ver­sus hav­ing dressers take up two walls.  We will place Mr. J’s dresser into the girls’ room (it is still in good con­di­tion & for now this will work) & make even more use of closets.

We got the Expe­dit shelv­ing from IKEA & it’s being divided up between the boys.  Socks, ties, & undies go in the  pull out bas­kets.  Other cloth­ing is divided on shelves by item (e.g. pjs on one shelf) & each boy has a free shelf for ran­dom items they want to pile (they are pil­ers like their momma!).  The older boys have the larger shelv­ing & D-man (tod­dler man) will have a smaller Expe­dit shelv­ing unit at the foot of his bed for clothes.  The closet is orga­nized with dress shirts, coats & out of sea­son wear.

So far it’s going well. Oddly enough every­thing hasn’t been pulled off or made a total mess of (yet–fingers crossed it stays!).  I have also heard a lot less of the “I don’t have any clean ______” because they can SEE IT! We are still mov­ing things around, fig­ur­ing out what works best & have real­ized that we prob­a­bly should have painted BEFORE putting the Expe­dit together & anchor­ing it but les­son learned.  As the kids rooms are both in need of a face-lift & a fresh coat of paint bright­ens any room. But oh well, we will make it work.

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