Renewal of the storage area (part 4)

Project #1 Renewal of the storage area – the Reveal

Practically finished and ready to reveal

I started this project in April this year with a declaration of war on procrastination. During these months I’ve dealt myself 3 points (read about it in part 1, part 2 and part 3) and in the name of fairness the procrastination monster scored a couple of points as well – my last post was on the 23rd of June… But now the area is actually finished so the last point goes to me making me the winner! Well, the race was a bit closer than I had hoped, but at least I’ve got the area from looking like the picture on the left to the picture on the right, so who cares that it took 6 months instead of 3 weeks?

Since the beginning of the project quite a bit has happened. The stairway has been transformed from the gloomy picture on the left to the fresher looking ones to the right and below. Amazing what can be accomplished with a little paint and some plasterboard!

I love the combination of white and gray, but I’m not quite happy with how the pine door looks!

After we planned the storage system we invested in some suitable storage items from IKEA. To go with our checker patterned tiles we chose cupboards with dark gray sliding doors. The area is completed with some solid metal shelves that fit perfectly in the remaining nook we get after the cupboard are in place.

Above and below are some pictures to show the process from the point of getting the DIY boxes from IKEA until the final task of hinging the sliding doors.

In this little project we’ve been going through the three phases of a home improvement process as illustrated in the table of conventions – namely; defining the problem (easy one, just look at those before pictures!), planning the solution (which I wrote about in part 2 of this series) and finally doing the job! The project also includes nearly all of the levels shown in the same table, starting with level A (decluttering and refurnishing) and level B (organizing the storage system), level C (painting and tiling) and finally level D (a bit of carpentry – new walls and ceiling).

The result is an easy accessible, neat looking area of our home where we store winter clothing, mittens, hats, boots, jackets, among other things. Not the things we use every day, because we keep those upstairs by the entrance (rebuilding this area is one of the projects to come!)

At last I’m not embarrassed to invite people to stay in the guestroom in our den anymore.

Actually, by seeing these pictures I realize there might be a part 5 of this project. The pine doors would look good painted in shades of gray as well, don’t you agree? Oh well, so much for having completed the project (I did say it was practically finished) and again I notice how home improvement truly is a Dynamic process. Also, replacing the old window is still not done. We’ve decided to replace it together with the two other old windows when the other storage area of the basement gets reorganized (coming up next!).