Organizing With Baskets

Hey there! Happy Monday to you! Today is a short and sweet post about how we corralled the mountains of sheets and towels in the laundry room so that they have their own spot… and as a bonus, now we don’t want to rip the shelves right off the wall every time we grab a towel just to have a whole stack fall on top of you. Whew. Can you tell that those were dark days? #firstworldproblems

Ok, deep breath… Remember the laundry room from last week? It used to be white on white and we jazz-ified it with a little coral paint and light blue shelves.

Up until that point, all of the sheets and towels were just piled. That is, until I found a few canvas baskets at Bed, Bath, and Beyond, used a couple 20% off coupons (because who the heck shops there without them?!), and brought ’em on home.

In the realm of organizing, we have them divided up into categories: white towels, blue towels, sheets, extra rags/dust cloths, and washcloths/bathmats.

While the big ones came from BBB, I also included a long-ish, skinny one and a shorter, square one from Target- couldn’t help myself with that fun pattern! Fortunately, they kind of tie it all together. 🙂

To help with remembering which is which, these little card stock tags tied on with twine do the trick!

Oh, and that gray one on the dryer is home to our iron and a few other laundry-ish accesories.

So there ya go-the ins and outs of our sheet management. Consider yourself informed. 🙂

PS. Stay tuned this week for a look into our year with DIY Laundry Detergent and how we added another shelf and some personal touches to this itty bitty room.