Yesterday, I shared that I had lastly taken the time to filter out one of many closets within the bed room in order that I might use it to retailer my footwear. Beforehand, I had outgrown my one closet, and my footwear have been spilling out onto the ground in entrance of the closet. I had been residing with a pile of footwear in entrance of my closet for an embarrassing period of time.
However I lastly determined to do a fast and straightforward group challenge, and in a matter of two hours, I used to be in a position to do away with the pile of footwear that I had been residing with for a lot too lengthy, and I had a neatly organized shoe closet.
Once more, I had been residing with a pile of footwear since I finished the room and we moved into the room in 2021. And once more, this group challenge solely took me two hours to complete. In solely two hours, this space of the room went from being an absolute headache, with me having to step over and thru a mound of footwear to hold up garments or select an outfit, to being an absolute delight. I can’t even inform you what number of occasions I’ve walked into the bed room and opened the closet simply to stare and marvel on the group that I now have.
So why did it take me so lengthy to do that challenge? Why have I been stepping by way of a mound of footwear since 2021 to get to my closet?
I feel it’s as a result of I endure from Pinterest and Instagram mind. I’ve turn out to be so used to the unusual issues in life having to be extraordinary and terribly stunning as a result of that’s the content material that we see regularly on Pinterest and Instagram. I feel it’s as a result of I endure from Pinterest and Instagram mind. I’ve turn out to be so used to the unusual issues in life having to be extraordinary and terribly stunning as a result of that’s the continent that we see regularly on Pinterest and Instagram.
I keep in mind the times when a pantry was only a pantry. A pantry was a closet within the kitchen with a closed door, and while you opened up the door, there have been some utilitarian wire or wooden cabinets. On the cabinets sat numerous and varied gadgets like bins of Raisin Bran and Cheez-Its, packages of Oreos and Nutter Butters, some baggage of chips, a 12-pack of Coke, and on and on.
After which someplace alongside the way in which, alongside got here Pinterest. Then the utilitarian pantry that was completely useful didn’t look all that fairly on Pinterest, so somebody got here alongside and determined to place wallpaper within the pantry. Folks on Pinterest actually appreciated the wallpaper within the pantry, however the meals bins and baggage actually distracted from the gorgeous wallpaper. So then someone thought it is perhaps good to empty all of the cereal and the cookies and the chips out of their authentic packages and put these in fairly containers with fairly labels in order that they might look fairly up in opposition to the gorgeous wallpaper. After which the following individual got here alongside and thought that possibly the gorgeous containers with the gorgeous labels didn’t look so fairly on wire or utilitarian wooden cabinets, so we needed to improve the cabinets in order that they seem like one thing made by knowledgeable cupboard maker. And on and on that pattern went.
After which Instagram got here alongside, and it turned Pinterest on steroids. And now folks have probably the most elaborate pantries which can be larger than my kitchen.
And naturally, I’m properly conscious that I’m a part of that. When it got here time for me to do my very own pantry, I wished my pantry at the start to be stunning and have customized tile and open cabinets and teal cupboards and a tiny sparkly chandelier and all the different issues that make a pantry stunning, together with the canine treats in fairly glass canisters.
So when i wanted shoe storage, the concept of simply performing some utilitarian shelving someplace to serve a really fundamental objective appeared unreasonable to me. How might I do easy utilitarian shelving when Pinterest and Instagram inform me that my shoe storage must be stunning and galvanizing and Instagram worthy? How might I do one thing lower than this?
And if I can’t have that, then why trouble? I imply, the one two choices have been (1) a mound of footwear within the nook of the room in entrance of my closet prohibiting me from attending to my garments, or (2) cabinetry that appears utterly personalized with glass doorways, glass shelving, lighting, and an exquisite rug. And since I don’t have time (or house) proper now to do Possibility 2, then clearly Possibility 1 was the one choice I had, proper? That’s Pinterest mind. That’s Instagram mind. That’s my mind that has been conditioned since 2009 (the yr that Pinterest began) to consider that if one thing can’t be stunning and Instagram-worthy, then it’s not likely price doing.
However my new shoe closet actually has me motivated. It’s purely sensible. There’s nothing fairly about it. There’s no fancy shelving, no superior lighting. It’s simply a few metallic tracks, some metallic brackets, and unfinished pine stair treads used as cabinets.
And but, I’m extra enthusiastic about that shoe closet proper now than something happening in my studio. I actually need to maintain reminding myself that not the whole lot must be Pinterest and Instagram worthy. That mindset retains me from getting issues achieved, particularly in terms of group. And generally getting issues achieved and arranged, even on utilitarian shelving, is reward sufficient in itself.
I can all the time return at a later date and add customized shelving and lighting and all the flowery bells and whistles if I need to. Or possibly stair treads are sufficient. However what I do know is that that feeling of getting issues organized and decluttered is without doubt one of the most rewarding emotions there’s, even when it’s not Instagram worthy.
Addicted 2 Adorning is the place I share my DIY and adorning journey as I transform and enhance the 1948 fixer higher that my husband, Matt, and I purchased in 2013. Matt has M.S. and is unable to do bodily work, so I do the vast majority of the work on the home on my own. You can learn more about me here.
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