Keeping a small space organized with eight people in the family can be quite a challenge. One of the most challenging areas to keep under control is where the coats, coveralls, mud boots, shoes, gloves etc are by the back door. Eventually we would like to build a mud room/porch on our cabin but in the mean time we have to make the best use of the space we have.
For this area I used an old coat rack that has 7 hooks. (Sometimes even this isn’t enough!) I used shelf brackets that I found on the clearance rack at Orscheln’s and particle board shelves that were part of an old book shelf. (Some of the pieces had gotten wet in storage and were no longer able to be used so we couldn’t put it together as a book shelf.) By using those pieces that were still good as shoe shelves we were able to repurpose something that would have otherwise been tossed out. Continue reading
