Storage issues have been solved with plenty of room to grow :) This is the downstairs, I haven't gotten upstairs for pics yet of what we did up there.
This is the downstairs bathroom cabinet under the sink, where we keep all our medicines, vitamins, and first aid. Bins are from The Container Store and ran about $7 each (but have been repurposed from the garage, we already owned them.) They are quite deep and hold a lot.
From left to right, top to bottom: Children's medicines, prescriptions, vitamins, diet aids and stomach issues, fiber/calcium supplements, first aid, pain relief, cough/cold/sinus. There are approximately 25 more Citrucel stacked *behind* the bins, and 8 glucose monitors. It's very easy to move the bins in and out of the cabinet, to pull things from the bins and put them in, and the storage behind is for things I should not need access to often.
Now we move into the laundry room. These are my new babies. They are beautiful and by Electrolux, boasting an 18 minute wash time and 18 minute dry time. My back is in love with me for not having to bend down into the washer and dryer anymore.
You can see my shelf system and bins to the left of the machines. Although the room doesn't appear very large in pictures, this is a HUGE room. Each tile is 12" square and my laundry room is 9x11. To the left of the washer is a small nook where I have hanging hanger racks and a laundry hamper; to the right is another laundry hamper and then a large freezer.
Just a couple of pictures (I won't detail all the shelves individually) to show some of what I needed to store. This is some clearance cleaning product I stumbled upon for 25 cents each packet, and had 45 cent coupons for (I spent about $10 oop as I didn't have enough coupons for each). There are 108 packets, each containing four dissolving packets that fills one bottle of cleaner, or 432 bottles worth of cleaner.
The next example is the wildness I went into stocking up on Febreeze candles. It looks like so little in this picture, doesn't it? There are 33 candles here! I couldn't put more on the shelf if I wanted to due to the weight limit. I have other candles, tarts, and oils on a seperate shelf above.
I cannot emphasize how wonderful the Container Store is to find things to hold small items. They sell these plastic boxes in many sizes from "accessory" (small, shown here); shoebox (perfect size for packets of tuna); men's shoebox (shown in the next picture). They let me keep everything seperated, organized, and they stack well with a minimum of wasted space.
On this shelf, I've used them to hold my Scentstories discs, B&BW fragrance oils and essential oils, and wallflower refills. I will add more later as needed, and there's enough room on the shelf to go 2 deep and 5 high.The men's shoebox size holds large aerosol cans, our excess reusable Chico, Ikea, and HomeDepot bags (each work quite differently and are used for a variety of things including the shopping), Swiffer floorcare pads, and other large objects that present storage difficulties or messiness.
