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POYEL: Creating an Organized & Family-Friendly Mudroom

September 28 by Janssen

Project Organize Your ENTIRE Life: Our Family Mudroom FAIL, and How We're Fixing It - Such a good read!

About a month into the new school year seems like pretty much the ideal time to tackle a new project for our Project Organize Your ENTIRE Life series.

This week we’re teaming up with our new sponsor, DYMO, to put their LabelManager 160 to work whipping up a stream-lined mudroom that serves the needs of an entire family.

Here’s our contributor Janssen with the details…

Do you have a room in your house that has so much potential but just somehow misses the mark and ends up frustrating you instead?

I definitely do. We moved into a new home this summer with a decently-sized laundry room that leads to the garage. At first glance, it seemed like the perfect spot to act as a command center for our family.

Then, before I knew it, my oldest daughter started kindergarten and we were suddenly dealing with backpacks, lunch boxes, school library books, and papers for the first time.

Nevertheless, I was excited about the potential our laundry room/mudroom had to be a really useful spot for our family, and I got to work right away.

Bench1

I put in a little bench with baskets so that we could sit down to put on shoes… but it quickly turned into a dumping ground for backpacks, shoes, and purses. Consequently there wasn’t any room to actually sit down.

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I also mounted a chalkboard above the bench for writing note… but it just turned into a big empty space that never got used (mainly because, with the bench covered with stuff, it was hard to reach).

Instead of the organized command center I had envisioned, the room was a huge eyesore every time you came in or out of the house.

Label Maker

So when DYMO sent me their LabelManager 160, it occurred to me that a few bright labels might be all I needed to make the bench storage and chalkboard actually useful.

I’d used a label maker in the past to organize office supplies and my pantry, but I’d never thought of using it in a room like this.

Curious to see how it all turned out? Stay tuned for the after reveal later this week. (I couldn’t believe what a difference it made!)

In the meantime, you can learn more about DYMO and their entire lineup of handy-dandy labeling products here.
*This post is sponsored by DYMO, all opinions are 100% my own.

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Janssen is a former librarian and avid reader who is always maxing out her library card. She now stays at home with her three young daughters (with another girl on the way) and blogs about books for readers of all ages, her favorite recipes, and parenting adventures at Everyday Reading.
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