This is it, ladies!  The final project of the series…the Laundry Room!

Are you still with me?

We’ve organized our closets, our kitchens, our bathrooms, and now our laundry rooms!

I know it has been a long month of organizing, but hasn’t it felt good?

I cannot tell you how happy I am with all of my organized spaces in my home.

I have seen some amazing laundry room makeovers in blogland.  I cannot wait to see some more.

Thank you so much for joining me and my sister, Cyndi,  in our first ever series….

Organizing Your Heart and Home 2011!

I hope you have had as much fun as we have.

I have really enjoyed getting to know many new blog friends.

And if you have joined me in one project, or all four, I thank you!

Now feel free to link up a new or old post of your laundry room.

Here are the party guidelines:

1. Link up as many posts as you want as long as they have to do with LAUNDRY/MUD ROOM  organization. (Be sure to use the permalink to that specific post, not your blog address.)

2.  Please link back to this party by using the cute little button I created or through a text link.

3.  Visit 3 or more other links to admire other bloggers’ hard work!  And be sure to leave a comment as a big pat on the back.  :)

The linky party will remain open all weekend, if you need a little more time!

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Happy Monday Morning!

I am in serious recovery mode from my amazing week at Blissdom!

I was completely exhausted when I got back home.

This week I will be sharing some pictures of Blissdom and a little of what I learned while I was there.

But for now, it’s time to get back into Organizing Mode!

I can tell that many of you are wearing down like I am with all this organizing stuff.  We only had 10 link ups to my bathroom organization party compared to the 30 and 40 link ups for my closet and kitchen organization parties.  (I will share the winner of the linky party giveaway at the bottom of this post.)

So come one, ladies!  Let’s persevere!

There’s just one room left…

your laundry or mud room!

Since our laundry room is a new addition, I didn’t have any re-organizing to do, but I will show you some pictures of how we are storing our items in the laundry/mud room.

I built this shelf to hold some detergent and decor.

I will be sharing the tutorial of how to make this shelf later this week, so stay tuned!  :)

I love seeing powder detergent in a glass jar in a laundry room, don’t you?  And the clothespin jar was a Goodwill find for $2.00.

I am planning on putting any loose change that I find while doing laundry in the little fluted white bowl.

I found this cute little blue antique fan at a garage sale for about three bucks, I think.

My hubby also built some storage for shoes in our laundry/mud room.

I don’t know about you, but we seem to have shoes lying in the floor of every room of our house!  Do you?

So we built a storage bench for shoes to hopefully help with this problem.

The lid of the bench lifts up and each boy has their own compartment in which to store their shoes.

So far, so good.

As you can tell in the next picture, I am still on the hunt for three matching baskets.  It is an awkward size to find.  I found these two at Marshall’s, and they fit perfectly, but I need one more!

I went to the other Marshall’s where I live, and they didn’t have any this size either.  So I am still hunting for three matching baskets!

The hooks I got at Hobby Lobby.  I got them half off for about 3 bucks a piece.

Here is what it looks like when you exit our kitchen into our laundry/mud room…

The boys hang their backpacks and coats on the hooks.  They love having their own hook!

I store hats, scarves, and mittens in one basket, and the other basket holds lunch boxes.

There is a little water heater closet in the room too where I store dirty clothes, and extra cleaning supplies.  I am still working on adding shelves to that closet, so I will share that later.

That’s it!

Now it is your turn this week to organize your laundry/ room.  I know there are some great posts out there because I have seen them!

I will try to share some inspirational posts with you this week as you work on yours.

And we will have a Laundry/Mud Room Organization Linky Party on Friday!

Now it is time to jump on over to my sister’s blog to find out how to Organize your Service to Others.

This is so important!!!

And it’s probably a part of our hearts that we all need to work on.

So click on her button below to visit her.

**The winner of the surprise giveaway of the Bathroom Organization Linky Party is….

Organize and Decorate Everything!

What did she win?

A necklace from The Vintage Pearl…I wanted to share a little bliss with you!

(picture from Imparting Grace)

Have a blessed day!

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Welcome to week three of….

I hope you are enjoying this series as much as my sister and I are!  This has really helped me to get my home organized!

Seriously girls…I would have NEVER done this without you.

I love the motivation this blog gives me to get things done.  (Didn’t I say that last week?)

This week I am going to show you how I organized my bathroom closet (which isn’t really in my bathroom).  :)

And my sister is going to share a little about organizing your family time…so head on over to her blog when you are finished reading mine!

This is the bathroom in the master bedroom…

It used to look completely different because my hubby and I did a complete makeover a few years ago (before my blogging days).

I love my bathroom, although there is nothing really “master” about it.  As far as storage goes, there is very little of it.

My husband and I have our toiletries under each of our sinks, and we keep our towels in the bottom of this black cabinet that we added to the space…

The only closet in our master bedroom was behind this little door…

Ain’t it purdy?

Yep, the bottom two panels on the door have had the mesh inserts missing since we moved into the house six years ago.  Yep…6.

(This door had to have those mesh panels because it has a vent inside the closet that has to be able to circulate air.)

Now, my hubby used to keep his clothes stuffed in this little closet (wish I had a picture of it, but we had already cleared it out before this makeover, and I forgot to take a picture).

But since we turned the laundry room into a master bedroom walk-in closet, we now had the space to do something different with this closet….it would be our bathroom/linen closet! (It’s just a few steps away from our bathroom.)

This is very humbling…but here is the before shot of this closet…

Yikes!  Aren’t you lovin’ the brown on the back of the door that we never painted?

This closet is located beneath our stairs, thus the slanted ceiling.

There used to be a bar than ran across the front of these shelves that my hubby’s clothes hung on, but we took it down.

See the beautiful vent on the floor?  Well, my hubby is getting ready to relocate it so we no longer have to have a vented door on this closet!  Woohoo!

I took everything out of the closet….

We did not paint this closet when we moved in six years ago.  I can guarantee that is has not been painted since this home was built in 1968!  It’s about time, doncha think?

Here is a look at the vent and yucky baseboard.  So glad my hubby is moving this vent!

I don’t know why the baseboard looks like that.  I cleaned it off and it still looks all speck-ly brown with dirt.

So the whole closet got a fresh coat of white paint.  I had to use KILZ primer on some parts because it had been painted with oil-based paint.  You cannot paint over oil-based paint with water-based paint without priming it first.  The paint will not adhere and will just scratch right off.

We also took the door off!!  Yeah!

We used the leftover brown paint from our laundry room makeover to paint the back wall.  I thought it would help the white shelves stand out, and it did.

This closet is a little dark, so I took the lamp off of my black dresser and sat it on the top shelf so I could see to paint.  The picture above only has one coat of brown paint on the walls.

Hey…I kind of like that little lamp in there…are you thinking what I’m thinking?

Now all we needed was a door.  Hmmmm…

I got to thinking.

Our next project in our home is going to be the boys’ upstairs bathroom.

It has a bathroom closet that has a door on it.

We are planning to take the door off for our makeover and leave the shelves open.

I wondered if that door would fit on our closet? I went upstairs and measured the width, and whatdayaknow?  It was the exact length!

I was so excited!!!

It was a little bit taller, but my hubby just sawed a little off the bottom and we were in business!

I love it!!!!

I love having the ironing board hanging on the door.

I found the adorable chicken wire baskets at T.J. Maxx yesterday, and I had to get them.  It was the only money I spent on this makeover, so it justified the $40.00 I spent on all four of the baskets.

The little wash cloth basket had a liner in it too, but I took it out because I like seeing the washcloths behind the wire.  I did the same thing to the basket that holds the toilet paper.

I had to had the greenery to hid the cord from the lamp.  :)

These are my “his” and “her” baskets.  I might add labels to them in the future.  They hold our personal items that do not need to be in the bathroom on a daily basis.

The lace had little brown buttons on it that I cut off because I thought it made it look a little too country.

Here are a few shots with the lamp on.  It makes the closet so bright and cheerful.  I cannot tell you how much I love this closet.  I don’t even close the door now.  :)

The lamp I already had (paid $10.00 for it at an antique mall last year), the bird was from the dollar store, and the white vase was a dollar at Goodwill.

Here are the before and after pictures….

Woohoo!

It was so worth the time and effort to complete this makeover.

I also cleaned up the area under my sink in the bathroom too.  I will share that later this week.

Now it is your turn!!

Time to clean up that bathroom!!!

Remember, you do not have to paint or do a makeover like I did.

Part of the reason that I am doing more than I normally would is because our house is for sale,

and I am hoping these makeovers will help make our house more appealing to buyers.

I will be hosting a “Bathroom Organization Linky Party” on Friday!

Won’t you join me?!

There will be a giveaway!

Now it’s time to hop on over to my sister’s blog

for her very important series on Organizing our Hearts.

She is going to be taking about Organizing your Family Time.

Click her button to visit her.

And have a blessed day!

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First of all, if you missed my post from yesterday,

be sure to click HERE and win to enter  your very own Silhouette Craft Cutter!!!

And if you want a few more chances to win a Silhouette, some of my blog friends are giving one away this week too.

Click on these links to go enter their giveaways:

Shelley at House of Smith’s

Myra at My Blessed Life

Gina at The Shabby Chic Cottage

Tell them Traci sent you!  :)

Yesterday, I also showed you my pantry makeover.  I cannot tell you how much I am enjoying using it!  I am so glad I did it.  :)

Click on the picture to see it.

So I wanted to show you a little more inspiration from around blogland, and I can’t talk about pantry makeovers without including Shelley’s from House of Smith’s.

Click on the beautiful picture below to see how her amazing pantry makeover!

And I love Emily at DecorChick who made these “lazy susans” for her pantry.  She shares the complete tutorial.  Just click on the picture below to check it out.

Beth, at Stories from A 2 Z, got into the Pantry Organizing fun.  You can see her great makeover by clicking on the picture below.

And  you will enjoy seeing all of the amazing labels Sarah at Thrifty Decor Chick made for her containers using her Silhouette Machine.

Click on the picture to see it all…

Sarah has another post called Decrapfication:  The Kitchen where she shows all the nifty ways she has organized her kitchen.  Click on the picture below to read it.

Sarah is the Queen of organizing.  She has a button on her side bar that will take you to all her organizational posts.  It’s a must!

Don’t forget my Kitchen Clean-up Linky Party is this Friday, January 21st.

Remember, you can showcase ANY part of your kitchen you have organized.

It doesn’t have to be the pantry!

I need some inspiration in how to clean up my kitchen cabinets and drawers, so help me out!!

Have a blessed day!

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