It only took 4.5 months to finish, but it's FINALLY FINISHED. I am truly amazed and how much stuff (and pure JUNK) one can accumulate over a 2 year period... like tons of empty boxes (not my fault though, I fully place the blame on my husband for this one!) and baby clothes and toys that were long outgrown (fully MY fault). The both of us were quite ruthless in what we chose to throw out/donate - we easily got rid of over half the items. It feels GRRRRRREAT!! I feel so much lighter and free; that massive pile of stuff was totally weighing me down. Don't believe me? Want proof that it's actually done? On to the pictures!

To refresh your memory, here's what it looked like before.

So here's the storage area. This part took the longest and used the most muscle. I dragged EVERYTHING out of there, vacuumed, and went through (almost) everything in the containers and bags. What I didn't feel like organizing, I at least labeled the container and put it back. Everything is now accessible AND labeled so I don't have to spend 3 hours searching for that one little thing that I know is back there.


To the left of the stairs. These are some of the things we chose to keep - stacked nicely.


More stuff. A few select pieces of furniture and accessories, and a couple of boxes of wires and things, I think. They're apparently important.


Holy crap, it actually looks like a ROOM!!!


So what happened was we swapped out the queen mattress for the futon from the living room (now that we have our new furniture - WHEEE!!). And our queen boxspring wouldn't fit down the stairs, so it was sitting on two twins instead. Now there is one complete twin set down there, and the other is now in Monster's room. (His old mates bed-frame-thingy was a piece of crap so we chucked it.) We moved furniture ALL DAY. But it was so worth it.


And we even have a TV and CD/DVD player set up too. NICE!

It doesn't look beautiful down there, but that wasn't the goal. It's a functional, organized, clean use of space. And that makes me very happy.

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Mmmmm, Cookie Love!

 Jamie said... Looks good there Melissa!! It must feel great to have done! -- September 22, 2008 2:05 PM  

You got cookie? I can has it?