These Hooks Make Me Happy!

 

This house has a long closet in the laundry room

that I really wanted to turn into a drop zone/mud room,

since it is easily accessed from the garage.

 

The best part is, that it has doors so whenever the kids mess up my "organization"

I can just shut the door.

Score.

 

This is how we made it work for our family.

(Sorry the pictures aren't the best but space was tight so I am practically sitting on the utility tub to take these.)

 

 The Hubs hung three inexpensive wood strips from Ikea for a total of 15 hooks, at Hobbit/kid height.
This was much cheaper than buying individual hooks and Ikea had the best price
 (which I don't remember because I bought them 6 months ago.).

 There is an existing coat rack higher at adult height for our coats or laundry that needs to dry a bit more.

 The bins are left over from a bookshelf from Costco.  Each kid, plus mom, has one for their shoes.

In the back, we have two laundry baskets squeezed in there.

One for colors and one for whites.

 

I love this kind of stuff and the kids don't seem to mind either.

I am a total dork, and I don't care!

 

I will post in the future about how I keep track (or try to keep track) of 5 kids papers...

 

Anyone else love a good organization project?

Share, please.