Mudroom Makeover

So, I live with my parents (a little pathetic I know, but I like to refer to it as thrifty).  In my parents house, we have a mudroom.  Its also the room where our washer and dryer are located.  This room has also become home to sheet rock, tools, and other crap.  It is a completely disaster and drives me crazy. 

Today, both of my parents had to work and I was still home on Christmas Break.  So I spent a couple of hours getting things better organized.  I couldn't throw anything away because its not my stuff.  Believe me, if I could have thrown stuff away, this would have looked a million times better.

Now remember, I only worked about 2 hours and I couldn't get rid of anything.

                                        

The laundry area mostly just needed picking up.

I washed all my dad's hats and got rid of all the trash.

 

 

I cleaned up the washer and dryer.

 

I organized stuff in a basket to give things a neater, more organized look.

  

This shelf next to the freezer was a disaster.  In the before picture, a pile of shoes laid underneath a bunch of junk.  Now they are much more easy to get to.

 

 

This side of the room needed some help too.  The totes are mine and contain all my shoes.  All the crap on top was stuff that never found a home when I moved back into my parents house.  Further on down is an old tv stand.

Looking much better!

 

I used the old tv stand for storage.  I placed the two old tvs on the top, a tool box on one shelf and a box of paper on the other.

 

I left my dad's coveralls and coat on the hooks cause he would freak out and accuse somebody of stealing this stuff if I moved them.  Stacked on that trunk are the cushions to our outdoor chairs.

 

In this area, I just did some basic reorganization.

 

Another view of the entire room. 

 Cleaned up the shelf and lined up all the chairs together.

 

 Some extras...



These chairs were everywhere.  Now they are all in the same place and easy to get out when needed.

Boxes were stacked together and there was now room for the stroller to be moved down onto the ground instead on stacked on stuff.

I moved the dog cage over, cleaned it out, and put all the toys in a basket on top.
(We have 2 beagles.  They are outside dogs, but get to come inside when its really cold out.)

(We built our house about 12 years ago.  This room was never really finished which is why the walls are just sheet rock.  The floor is just concrete which is really cold, so we have that ugly most lovely carpet thrown on the floor.  Please excuse the white-trashness of the room.  The rest of our house is really much nicer.)



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