A Mud Seat, a Chalk Board, and a place for Mail

Who would have thought that those 3 things would bring a SMILE to my face every single day? But they do!

I will start with the Mud Seat. I love organization, although sometimes in our home things get REALLY disorganized. The children's backpacks and shoes laying all over the house last school year were driving me CRAZY......."A place for everything and everything in its place" :). So my WONDERFUL husband decided he would design and build a mud seat for our very small and narrow laundry room. He did it! It totally works with plenty of walking room. It is BEAUTIFUL and I LOVE being in my laundry room. Now I need you all to imagine a plain white wall with nothing else but a large cork board/tack board on it for the before picture ( I forgot to take one ). Now here is the AFTER picture......the finished product....YIPPEE!!!

A little FYI...that is a very tiny backpack hanging there. The girls backpacks fill the whole space.

I LOVE my new laundry room. The color on the walls is the same blue we used in our bathroom and it is a favorite of mine. No more shoes and backpacks all over the house. YEAH!!!

Then I got rid of the cork board and bought a small cork board and magnetic dry erase board.....LOVE it!!

Now for the chalkboard. This summer we were able to travel, visit with friends and stay in their homes. One of my friends made her whole back splash into a chalk board and another one of my friends had chalkboard paper on her wall. I LOVED the idea of having a chalkboard in my kitchen and immediately thought about one of the sides of my kitchen cabinet. So I bought some magnetic paint to prime the cabinet with and then painted with chalkboard paint. The finished product is a chalkboard in the perfect spot in our kitchen. A place for me to write menus, grocery lists, and favorite quotes. Thank you Heather and Heidi for this wonderful idea--love you two.

NEXT, is my find at the craft store. For years I had been trying to find the PERFECT basket to put on our wall by the front door to place our mail in when we walk in the door. I loved this tin when I saw it and it has worked out perfectly and it was 40% off. Before I made this purchase mail would get tossed on our dining table and would just pile up. Now I have a place for mail and I always remember to go through it because there is only so much room for the mail in this beauty of a tin. And it is in my favorite color RED! ( I can not figure out why blogger underlined this part of my post)

Making some of these changes in our home did not cost us very much and has only added to the functionality and beauty of our home.

So the next time you get a creative idea of something you want to do in your home....Just DO it!! You will be happy you did! I know I am.

FYI.....FUTURE PROJECT: Letters on my kitchen walls! That is all I am saying. I can't give it all away or else there would be no surprise. I will remember to take before pics this time.