Feb 21, bagging up the floor

Hi again.  I'm back to show my progress.  It looks great!  But there's still lots of work to do.  Still I can go in and sigh a sigh of relief and see what the room can be.  For the most part I'll just be posting pictures of my progress, so let the show begin.  Although my main focus is the floor, it's obvious by the pictures what work still needs to be done.  The pictures with the disorganized messes are all behind closed closet doors and drawers, with the exception of the dresser.

8 year old's closet. We definitely need to throw out and organize.

The other side of the 8 yr. old's closet as well as the top drawer.  The bottom drawer holds his shoes.

The 6 year olds' closet.  It's time to go through those clothes.  It's mostly for dressier wear since he can't reach that high right now.  And then there's the toy box full of junk.  Close up to come. . . 

I bought two of these hanging shelves.  The 6 year old didn't have a chance to junk it up before I got to it.  These are his school/scout clothes.  I plan on doing something similar to the 8 year old's closet.  They're identical, although not in content.  ;o) 

I'm happy we've been able to maintain this drawer.  My 6 year old lives in a world all his own and sometimes he likes to dress the part.

The 6 year old's dresser is a mess.  It really doesn't take much.  This dresser my parents bought for the hubby and me when I was pregnant with our oldest (13, going on 14 in May '12!). The top folds down to a changing table, although we mostly changed the kids on the couch or bed.  Rarely used that dresser.   From the oldest to the youngest.  He (the 6 year old) will be outgrowing this soon.

Here's a close up of the junk in the toy chest in the closet.  This really needs to be organized.  How can they find ANYTHING in here?  Can someone find me a trash bag. . . .

This is pretty organized by like things.  Still could use some work though.  Some things, like the PlayMobil's on the bottom, hubby's not ready to part with yet, even though the boys rarely play with them.

The bookshelf.  I really want to organize it, but by the looks of how my boys keep up with things, I think it'd be a waste of time.  Better to just get said books back on the shelf when we're finished reading, yes?

This has worked out well.  It's two sets of a 3-drawer cabinet thing that houses their most used toys. . . Ben 10 action figures and Bakugan stuff.  This one shows the top shelf that can use a declutter session.

The bottom view of the most used toys cabinets.  This closet is really too small for anything else but coats and my guys are still to short to reach so why not utilize it for toys for now?  By the way, their room used to be the old owners dining room so that's why the minuscule closet and the other two (closets) had to be bought (Ikea) and brought in.

The view from the bunk beds.

The view from the door. This makes my heart smile.  :o)  In case you noticed, yes that's a sheet covering the window.  The kids moved the ladder and one day it fell through the window, messing up the blinds in the process.  The window got fixed, but the blinds have yet to be replaced.  

Amazingly, only two bags from the mess in the room need to be gone through. The stuff in the pink thing just need to be moved to their homes outside of the boys room.  It's been sitting in there for weeks. . . {sigh} . . . the boys room, not the hallway.  :o)

Ah, yes, and then there's these two long boxes full of stuff that the boys are most likely too old to play with.  Out of sight, out of mind though, so I haven't dealt with it.  Soon, junk, soon. . . .