I have a room in my home that was dubbed "the pit of despair" shortly after we moved in. We both hear the albino from "The Princess Bride" naming it every time we walk through to the kitchen. We believe it was originally intended as a dining room, but we put our table in the main room, and really like the coziness. So the dining room became the place for everything that didn't have it's own home. I must admit that the majority of the fault for the mess lies squarely at my feet......
My name is Amanda and I am a fabric addict.
I can almost hear the chorus of "Hi Amanda's" from all the fellow addicts out there. If only there was a twelve step program for this! Mind you, most of us wouldn't stay on the wagon for long. Fresh fabric samples are just too tempting to pass up.
My very large fabric stash was put in there when we moved in. I had it beautifully displayed, (or so I thought), on bookshelves from Ikea, which had been recycled through my family in a few different rooms/homes and were a bit the worse for wear. Sadly, due to some technical issues that arose with my phone, the "before" pictures I had of the room, including my displayed stash, have faded into the ether, (part of my stash can be seen here in my 'magpie' post). As tends to happen with stashes mine kept growing after the original stash had been shelved without the extra shelves to contain it. It wound up in bags and boxes tucked here and there all over the place.
When our darling Lady entered our lives the pit got a jolly good cleaning and her crate went in there. It went from despair to fair in short order. As she got more comfy in her new home, it became more and more evident that the crate was not for her. She never used it, and as a result the pit came back to despair in full force. By the time December arrived we decided something had to be done. It was starting to resemble a room from "Hoarders" and we were both having nightmares of being buried alive under a mountain of stuff.
And so, as must always happen in these situations, we sat down and came up with a game plan.
Step 1: Crate goes down to storage locker. Check
Step 2: Trip to Ikea to get better shelving. Trip to Canadian Tire to get plastic bins. Check
Step 3: Rip the room apart to create a bigger mess than you had before. Check
Step 4: Put new Ikea shelves together. Check
Step 5: Try to sort out the ruddy-big mess of your apartment. Check?
Believe it or not the pictures below are only about half way through the process.
I am currently sorting, categorizing, washing, ironing and folding all of my fabrics. They are going in plastic bins in the storage locker in the basement. My current deadline to whip this room into shape is January 26th.
Keep your fingers crossed, and wish me luck......I'm going to need it!
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