Collect-tag.

In April of 2008, I found this photo on the internet. Inspired, I started my own collection. So here we are, three and a half years later with the result of my effort.

I now have about two and a half inches of tags. Based on my calculation, there are about 12 years worth of tags in the top photo.

Stuven-VIEW

Remember when Erica Kane lived at Linden? Well we live across the street from the Stuven's, so we live at Stuven-view. 

found in the kid's area. IKEA stuva.

build it any way you want

wonder if it's just BESTA with cool new doors?

kiddy colors-too bad there's not black or red

here's my other great discovery

filled with spinach and cheese-delicious!

mommy i want this

and this

and a 500 square foot apartment!

Menaghmen it!

How my brother stores his stuff:

Sue's Bookshelves

Sue finished her basement a few years ago. Her husband created these built-in bookshelves using the area between the studs. Trim was added to cover the 2x4s and then it was painted. Deeper books in the bottom row steal room from the area behind the shelves.

Laundry Room Redo

I took down some whiteboards (from IKEA, which suck because the pen will not wash off them!). I had to repair the walls and repaint. I found the original paint in the basement so total cost: FREE. It's tough to repaint the same color, because you can't see where you've been. I positioned a work lamp on the floor so I could see my painting progress. I tried to sell these IKEA racks at the garage sale, but luckily no one knew what they were for when they were lying on the driveway. So I decided to put them up. Very useful for drying clothes.

The clock you see below is from my very first IKEA trip in 1998. I think it was less than 5 bucks. I cleared out some clutter, found receipts from 1993 in a "save your receipts" folder from Dayton's. Relabeled some containers and threw out a bunch of pens.

Even though these built in's are nice, it's hard to reach anything that you store there. My goals of my household re-org/re-dec are "access", "room function" and "vaccuum-ability".