Since moving into the house, our second bedroom as become a holding room for a whole bunch of stuff. Clothes to be donated, my childhood dollhouse, paintings my grandmother made, wires from college computers and TONS of comforters. When someone comes to stay I usually move everything into somewhat neat piles and explain that we just haven’t gotten around to this room yet.
This room also has a small closet, which I had claimed as my own. But seeing as how the closet is tiny and I have a TON of crap, it made more sense for me to take over the bigger closet in the hallway, the one that up until yesterday was occupied by Michael. I also had completely run out of shoe storage and they had formed a revolution and were on the verge of attacking.
Since we’re having company this weekend, we decided that it was finally time to tackle the room. I started by emptying Michael’s closet while he was in the shower. I’d just like to point out that perhaps I’m not the only one with a shoe problem. (And no, he doesn’t wear those awful white ones. There’s a whole story behind them.) (Also, heeellllo ugly office floor. We hate you! Die!)
This is what my old closet looked like. Notice the clothes jammed together and the overflowing baskets, which incidentally were so heavy they were pulling down the shelf.
Also notice how my shoes were sadly jammed on the floor of the closet. What you don’t see is the floor to the left, which was COVERED in shoes that had no home.
But now, here’s my new closet! (Please don’t judge my hangers…I need some new ones.) The space! Shelves of shoes!
Also, room for additional shoes in their original boxes…
And even more shoes on the door!
Look how happy they are to have a home, no longer exposed to the elements and dog hair and Michael’s frustration as he trips over them yet again.
Now let’s just hope I can keep it this way.
**Updated to add that Michael came up the stairs while I was taking pictures and asked why in the world I would do such a thing. I hung my head as I admitted that yes, I take pictures of my closet for my blog.
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August 8, 2007 at 10:33 am
Courtney
I’m going to show Bub your blog because he think’s I have a lot of shoes. Ummmm….not compared to you! : ) Good work on organizing everything!
August 8, 2007 at 10:35 am
Valerie
I’m so happy that your shoes finally have a real home! They deserve it. Plus, when I come to visit I will be able to find shoes to borrow much faster than usual.
Your new closet looks wonderful and very organized, let’s hope it stays that way. I just sounded like a mom.
August 8, 2007 at 10:47 am
kwarterlifecrisis
Haha. LOVE the new closet. Those black and white basket things are adorable! I seriously sleep better at night when stuff is organized and tidy. And also, how many pairs of shoes do you have? I counted once like a month ago because I was curious and I had 61. That includes all flip-flops, but umm, should I be embarassed of that number? I mean, come on, I know you love me even more now because I have a ton of shoes (:)), but should I be ashamed? Am I a shoe whore??
August 8, 2007 at 11:01 am
DG
I am SO jealous of your shoes! My shoes are so badly organized in my apartment due to lack of closet space… lucky!
August 8, 2007 at 11:20 am
clinkny
I’m so jealous of the space too. (Plus, I love those baskets – ADORABLE.) My shoes are piled in my closet with no rhyme or reason. My mom (fellow shoe-lover) shudders whenever she sees them.
I cannot WAIT to move to our new apartment, where we will have four closets. FOUR CLOSETS. Unheard of in Manhattan. Clearly, M is only allowed to have one.
Also, I love how you were modest enough not to tell the internets that you fit into a teeny-tiny pair of jeans that you found while clearing out the closet. I’ll toot your horn for you: Molly fit into a teeny-tiny pair of jeans because she is teeny-tiny and adorable.
August 8, 2007 at 11:33 am
thefanny
I’ll have to do the same with the shoe pictures when I get home so we can revel in our mutual shoe love. How funny that we were both talking about it on the same day!
August 8, 2007 at 11:51 am
sasharay
So exciting! I love all the space you have for shoes!!!! So fun!
August 8, 2007 at 12:13 pm
Molly's Boss
Hey, this is great, but will you do something with the office now. And, since you’re getting this instantly, I’ll be in between 1 and 1:30.
August 8, 2007 at 12:57 pm
bloggingbarbie
beautiful organization work, lady. and props to you for skinny jeans fitting 🙂 i have one teeeeeensy closet. and my shoes are hanging on the door in one of those plastic things. *shudder* but, the nicer ones are under my bed, all neatly lined up in a row.
btw, digging the supercute black and white baskets. wherever did you find them??
August 8, 2007 at 1:43 pm
Molly
The super cute baskets are from HomeGoods. LOVE the HomeGoods.
August 8, 2007 at 1:54 pm
Sass
BFF has the same shoes as Michael! Middle row, second from the right.
Yay for organization, it makes life SO much easier. Or so I hear…
August 8, 2007 at 2:58 pm
bloggingbarbie
HomeGoods freaking rocks. But the evil people of the TJ Maxx store chain TOOK the one closest to my apt. AWAY from me.
I am Lost without the homegoods. especially since as of late i’ve been bitten by the decorator bug. man. life is hard.
August 8, 2007 at 3:19 pm
Ashley
hmm I left a comment a few hours ago. and it didn’t show up. weird….
i admire the neatness of your shoes….considering i have SEEN the “spare bedroom” aka your closet….it looks very nice! 😉
August 8, 2007 at 3:21 pm
erin
You have given me inspiration. I need to reorganize my closet, especially for my shoes. They are just scattered all over now since I have filled up the one rack that I do have.
August 8, 2007 at 3:57 pm
chasingliberty
Hi Molly! I just started reading your blog…and i thought I loved shoes! CLEARLY you win..haha. Glad to see you got things organized. I’ve just started up a blog of my own – swing by and check it out, i’d love hear from you!
-libby
August 8, 2007 at 4:33 pm
Amber
I honestly can’t tell you how jealous I am… Mine are semi-organised, on little racks that Terry built for them but, y’know, those racks only hold so much, so the rest are stuffed up above my clothes, on the floor, in a trunk in the “office”, at my parents house… I’m sure I have shoes I’ve forgotten I even own. Anyway, respect for the organisation. Also: I want me some of that.
August 8, 2007 at 5:44 pm
Kateastrophe
First of all, holy comments batman! Whatcha do, whore out the blog? Hahah just kidding.
Ahem.
Second of all, have I mentioned that in order to make our “walk in closet” which isn’t really a walk in closet look bigger, I kicked my husband completely out? Yeeeeaaah, I totally did. I have the whole thing to myself now and his clothes are in the study. Needless to say I almost took pictures for the same reason because OH the SPACE!!
And, I’m jealous of all your shoes. I have lots, but not nearly as lots. Hahah. You heard me.
August 8, 2007 at 5:46 pm
lisa
Nice closet! I am preparing to purchase my first pair of heels. I realized: holy toledo how do I not own any? Especially after discovering they make legs look, uh, GOOD.
I’ll post pictures of my one pair of heels when I buy them.
August 8, 2007 at 7:11 pm
notbubbly
My poor shoes have the floor of the closet space as well, which means that most of them never get worn…poor shoes! Good to see you put all of your shoes on display!
August 9, 2007 at 9:30 am
Anna
I’m thinking you busted through 1,000 today, Molly!
And LOVE the clean closet. Clean, organized things make my heart sing, too bad I don’t do it more often.
And I would TOTALLY take the photos of it, too.
August 9, 2007 at 10:11 am
crystall
I know we talked about this yesterday, but, wow. WOW.
And what the hell is homegoods. Is that like The Container Store?
August 9, 2007 at 10:57 am
kwarterlifecrisis
Oh Crystall, I’m with you on the whole ‘pop’ thing and the ‘what the hell is Fribble’ business, but you don’t know about HomeGoods? You are totally missing out. I think it’s owned by T.J. Maxx or something because they are always connected to each other ’round these parts. They have the cutest (clearly, look at Molly’s containers) home-y kind of stuff for cheap. And Lord knows I love me some cheap shit.
August 9, 2007 at 10:58 am
Amanda
Nice work! I too have often had to lower my head in shame and confess to taking a photo of something ridiculous for my blog. It’s the name of the game….random pieces of our lives captured on film and in print for the masses. The closet looks awesome. And I want your shoes, please.
August 9, 2007 at 4:03 pm
*kb*
I just want to know, DO YOU ACTUALLY WEAR ALL THOSE SHOES!?! 🙂 And I noticed Michael’s WHITE ones immediately! HAA!
September 4, 2007 at 3:11 am
just a girl
Love the red pointy toed ones on the door.
*shiny*
*oooooh*
I love shoes but have such big flippers that it is hard to find nice ones.