It inspired me to get out in our breezeway and take some pictures of the changes. For one of my birthday presents, Scott sprung the idea on me that we would redecorate the breezeway. Hearing the words "redecorate" from a man is very exciting! Hours on Pinterest, trips to Ikea, Target, and JoAnn Fabrics later, and we had a plan!
We would take a great space that leads from our garage into our house and out on to our deck and turn it into a place where we could store all our shoes, some coats, dog accessories (leashes, collars, etc.), and our recycling in a an organized, yet aesthetically pleasing manner.
When we first moved in...3 years ago:
It quickly became a dumping ground for anything and everything on our way in the house. With a random couch with a faded slipcover, mismatch storage pieces, a metal shelving unit, and piles of shoes, we knew it needed an overhaul.
Our Ikea/Target shopping list included:
- Kallax Shelving Unit
- 2 Billy Bookcases (mint green and orange)
- Drona storage boxes
- Rubbermaid Shelves (for shoes)
- 2 Pillows
- Room Essential storage boxes (brown)
We made a makeshift mudroom with cubbies for the boys' shoes and hooks for their coats.
We turned a Billy Bookshelf on it's side and filled it with their shoes. We haven't found any storage bins that fit with it turned on it's side, but I don't mind their shoes sitting in there without bins for now. The two hooks for coats came from Home Depot and the shelf above the coats came from Home Depot as well. We are storing hats, gloves, scarves, and all the winter essentials in the orange bins.
The shelving unit on the right is another Billy Bookshelf. The brown bins are Room Essential bins from Target. We have one filled with dog accessories, while the other two are vacant for now. I plan to move the fake logs for our fireplace down to the bottom shelf and shift the bins up so they are all in a row.
I plan to buy a galvanized drip pan filled with small rocks for the winter boots/rain boots to sit on. It will look great, but also keep the water/slush off of the floor.
We turned the Kallax shelf on it's side and filled it with some of the Drona bins. My mom helped me by buying a foam piece and cutting it to size. We picked out a heavy duty fabric from JoAnn's in fun colors and covered it. The pillows were a cheap buy from Target! Now the boys have somewhere to sit to put on their shoes.
I should add the mint green bins are filled with sandals. Each person has their own bin for extra shoes and sandals.
So where do all of the other shoes go? In Rubbermaid organizing shelves from Target!
It certainly doesn't hold all of mine, so I have a shoe overflow in the office's walk-in closet. But, these are the ones I wear the most. Excuse my obsession with Uggs. Can you tell my husband is a P.E. teacher?
To keep the cost down, we left the walls, the floors, the windows, and window coverings as they were. We played off of the "terra-cotta" look and used fake plants to decorate. I found this outdoor area rug on clearance on Home Depot's website in the Fall when everything was off-season. I think it plays well with the colors of the room and it helped hide the dirt, mud, snow, and everything else that gets tracked in.
While it's not perfect, it was definitely an upgrade from the mess it was before. Everything has a place and it looks clean and orderly. I don't mind showing people into our house through the garage now. I'm hoping warmer weather is coming our way so we can stand being in the breezeway long enough to put on our shoes and coats. It's a fun space!
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