My Project: December

1. De-Clutter
Blackstone: Merlot

December comes amidst the first annual Gutscina Family Vacation, Christmas parties, house/dog sitting for my parents for a week, and the holidays.  The holidays can be stressful alone, not to mention the idea of tackling an item on the list. 

So without further delay I bring to you December: The month for Organization - Part I.

If you don't already know this about us, our lives tend to be a bit crazy even during the "boring" months.  So staying organized and tidy in our home isn't always the easiest.  Things tend to be left where they drop so finding a new system for our home is going to take some extra work. 

First up was the cabinet under the sink.  I am OBSESSED with cleaning products.   I have them everywhere.  Under the kitchen sink, in the hallway closet, in the bathroom closet and some in the garage.  Yikes.  Needless to say this space needed reorganization and a little purging. 

Murphy photobombing me as usual.

This is the end result.  Not much less under there but I can attest that different products have different purposes.  The bin on the left is for "kitchen cleaning", the bin on the right is for "living room cleaning".  I would have liked to do a 2-tier shelf under there, but our disposal hangs pretty low and I don't want to hang anything off the doors, that makes me feel overwhelmed.

Since this project only took me about an hour, I decided I was due to start our bathroom project.  It falls under the realm of organization, so I got to it.

My husband is such a good sport.

Here is the bathroom before.  Not only does it need reorganization, but its just so dark.  A bathroom should feel crisp. 

What isn't pictured is the damaged vanity doors. One of the front doors "fell off" during a poker party a while back, and any amount of repair hasn't brought it back to its glory. The damn sink was so pricey when the husband first remodeled this bathroom, that its hard to justify completely getting rid of it.  I've tried.

I decided to remove the front doors and use it as an open vanity.  A stop at the local Target led me to these awesome baskets.  They couldn't match any better.  One basket for toilet paper, the other for extra guest towels.  We've going to try removing the existing shelf/faucet and hopefully replace it with a higher quality wall faucet, if the plumbing allows.  The same with the overhead light.  New shower curtain, fresh white trim, and a new air vent that still needs installed.

Murphy was in my grill the entire time I was painting the trim.  He is completely ridiculous.

 

Still have some things to finish in here, but its feeling brighter already.  Not completely decided on the top color of the walls.

When I am not working on my project list, I like to relax on the couch with a glass of wine and pin my life away on Pinterest.  I have more craft projects, home projects, and outdoor settings to do than I can handle.  What started as innocent "oh, I like that idea" has turned into a mass amount of pins to maybe 3 or 4 boards total.  If I am trying to organize my life, why the hell is my pinned life such a disaster?  I have 3 days left to December.  My goal will be to delete the ones I no longer like and organize the rest that truly give me inspiration.

And I am most definitely deleting the Great Cookie Exhange Fail of 2012.  That pin was whack!