It has been quite the year for all of us.
Obviously we’re all, okay maybe not obviously depending on when you’re watching this, but right now, I’m still in quarantine, still in self-isolation.
I spend 90% of my time in this room. I have a lot more space than a lot of people do. I’m very lucky in that sense, but it is an absolute mess right now, and it is messing with my, my feng shui…
I don’t think I used that correctly.
I have a couple projects that I wanna do to enhance the creativity and the flow of my space.
So I figured that I would do a short little series, going through each space and then showing you guys, like, the DIY projects that I’m doing for each space.
I feel like this is the biggest project. My closet…
I have too many T-shirts, I have too much stuff, I have- my shoes are all over the floor.
And then above my clothing rack, I have a bunch of knick-knacks of things that I’ve just collected over the years, and my books.
I am a huge reader, so I have a lot of books.
We’re gonna do what we can to improve our mood. Because I can’t control a lot of things right now, but I can control the state of my space.
So, let’s get started.
What I’m going to start by doing is separating my clothes as to what I’m gonna keep, what I’m gonna donate.
So we’ve gotten through going through the clothing.
Also, I keep changing because I’m, like, trying things on as I go, and it also got hot. So, now I’m wearing a throwback One Direction shirt.
The goal is to not have anything left on the floor because that’s one of the things that bothers me the most.
So, for instance, a couple of my dance costumes.
I have some old, like, memorabilia stuff that I want to keep, but I don’t necessarily want, like hanging in my closet.
I have this mural thing that we painted for the retreat that I ran.
We’re gonna try to pack that up so that we can hide it somewhere.
Next up, we have a lot of building to tackle/ DIY project that involves handiwork, I guess.
So I’m gonna separate this next part into projects just so it makes a little bit more sense for you, and it flows better because there are some, like, parts that I’m waiting for on each one.
So if you see the shelves built at one point, and then they’re not built like 2 minutes later in the video, that is why.
Also, all of the things that I bought I will put in the description down below.
None of this is sponsored, so I’m gonna tell you my 100% honest opinion on all of this.
Starting off, I have the Elvarli Shelves from Ikea. You can buy this as a pack, I think, is what it looks like on the website.
At my store, they only had all of the individual parts. So I had to buy the shelves and the posts/brackets separately.
These shelves are
Obviously you’re screwing it into the ceiling, and you have to put anchors into the ceiling.
So it’s not like you’re making small holes in the wall and just calling it a day.
Because the brackets come as separate pieces, you have to make sure, like, they’re lined up, so that once you connect the shelves it’ll actually connect.
And you have to make sure they’re leveled vertically because if they’re not then the shelves will fit at the top but not at the bottom.
And apparently if you tighten it too much on the bottom, the ceiling will crack.
So, it’s a whole thing.
One of the most important things that I didn’t realize about the shelves before I bought them,
This is what the bracket for the shelf looks like, and, as you can see, it already has, like, a predetermined angle.
I thought I was going to be able to adjust that to how I needed it, but you can’t.
I wanted a specific space where I could put my boots so that they could stand up straight, instead of having them fall over.
I saw this trick on Pinterest a while back where you cut pool noodles and put them into your shoes so that they’re not folding over.
I know I should probably put this over something and cut it, but, um, I can’t be bothered.
So, sorry dad. I’m not going to damage anything I promise.
I hope.
Ohhh! Perfect!
(Gasp)
(muffled) I’m not going to damage anything I promise.
Noooo!
I’m using a literal saw, and I- ugh!
That wasn’t a good idea.
And even after spending all of that time cutting the pool noodles down and labeling them, putting them in the shoes and organizing and everything…
They were still falling forward because of how steep the angle of the shelf was.
And apparently some shoes have, like, a curve at the toe, which I was very unaware of, and because of the angle of the tilt, some of my shoes were just sliding right off the shelf
which is not ideal.
But the good thing is that they also offer straight shelves, which aren’t made of metal, and are pictured on the website to be more for clothing, but they worked perfectly for my shoes.
(Scene from The Princess Diaries) [Queen]: I touch that?
[Mia]: Yes, you touch that, and then you, uh, press the button.
Next up, I have to build my 8 Cube Organizer, which is from Target.
I wanna use it to organize all of my knick-knacks, and all of the little, like, memorabilia stuff that I have above my clothing.
This is way easier to build than the Elvarli shelves were. I did this all by myself. I just used my dad’s help to put it above the shelf in my closet.
I also didn’t put the backboard on it because I didn’t feel like I needed it.
Once that was built I had to wait like a week for the baskets to come in.
The goal for tonight is to at least start organizing everything into those, because I’ve gotten to the point where
the mess that I made trying to clean the mess that was driving me crazy, is now driving me crazy.
So, that will at least clear up the space on the floor.
Basically, it let me hide away the things that I want to keep, but don’t necessarily want to be looking at.
It just cleaned up the space a lot, made it a lot less cluttered.
I think it would be so much better if the cubes didn’t have, like, these openings, because part of me is really bothered by the fact that you can see, like, the colors and stuff.
But it’s fine I’m not going to be looking at it too much.
And the final project that I have to do is my scarf organization.
So, this project came to me completely out of the blue. I don’t know if it’s going to work, but we’ll see.
Basically, when I started this, I knew that I wanted to create a new system of how to organize my scarves because, this is my current system.
I have two hangers that are folding pretty badly.
This system overall just does not work because I have already broken a couple of hangers because scarves are heavy.
As I was working on my closet I realized that I have this, kind of, dead space back here because of my shoe shelf.
So I wanted to utilize it, I wasn’t really sure how.
I bought a pack of 6 shelf brackets because I need 4 of them for another project that I’m doing. I had 2 extra and I figured, why not use them?
And I’m gonna try and make my own little scarf-holder-thing.
We’re gonna- we’re gonna see how it goes.
So now that that is done, I’m gonna take all of these, and loop them through these shower curtain holder-things that I got off of Amazon for, like, a couple bucks.
I guess in hindsight I didn’t necessarily need these. I could’ve just hung them on there, but I wanted a way to, kind of, separate them a little bit more
and not have them cluttered on top of each other, I guess.
It is day 4, 5 or 6.
Something like that.
I’ve just been doing, like, little, tiny pieces at a time, which is why I think it has taken me so long.
I pulled out all of my books. That’s gonna be fun to go through.
And then I also painted some cube things white, that I had in my closet already. So that’s just gonna, kind of, help them blend, match everything else.
And I’m gonna use that, obviously, for some more storage.
But, before I do any of that, I’m going to line the top of my shelves with this plastic lining,
so things stop sticking to that shelf, because I don’t know if it’s the paint that they used, everything that I have put up there sticks,
and when I was trying to take my books down, my books were all sticking, and I don’t want any of them to get damaged.
I also don’t want to damage the actual shelf, so we’re just, we’re gonna be cautious.
I’m gonna finally start organizing all of the books because, like I showed you earlier, I just have them on the floor.
I was looking at a computer screen all day, so I decided that I wanted to do something a little bit more chill and relaxed, without having to look at the screen.
So, I’m probably just gonna play some music and start organizing all of my wonderful books.
Do we have a visitor?
Hello!
Are you going to stay here?
You look very pretty in that dress ma’am.
We were literally just talking about the fact that she doesn’t come up here and hang out with me unless we’re gonna go to bed, and then she ran up here.
So, I don’t know if you were sent- oh my gosh- or if you actually want to be here.
Then again, she doesn’t do anything she doesn’t want, so…
I used to have it organized by author, which I really like, but I feel like, the different colors, the different heights, just, that’s what made it look so cluttered.
So I’ve organized all of the paperbacks by color, kind-of sort-of, just to kind of get a rough idea of where I want them.
So these aren’t all hardcover, but I want to keep, like, the series together.
And then these are, like, the hardbacks are bigger than, obviously, the paperbacks.
So, I have those separated, but I also kind of have those done by color.
So I’m gonna try this out, see if it is any cleaner than how I had it.
I had a harder time getting rid of books than I thought I was going to.
I did end up filling this box with ones that I’m going to be taking to Half-Priced Books, but I still have a lot.
And finally, I am done with my closet makeover!
I am
It has been so nice to go into my closet and not be surrounded by a mess.
Having a clean space really just helps me not have such a cluttered mind.
Which leads into the fact that this is not my only reorganization, redecorate, uh, redec-
Which means that this video is the first of my reorganization/ redecorating series that I will be doing.
I may or may not be doing my office space next, and it’s going to be way more intense of a makeover than my closet was, so…
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I hope this video has encouraged you to push past whatever laziness it is that you’re feeling right now to not reorganize that space that you’ve been thinking about this whole time.
I hope that you guys all enjoyed, and I will see guys you all in next week’s video.
Byeee!