Organizing the Tupperware cupboard..

Second post today...but I didn't want to get behind following the 31 Days of Organization with Peter Walsh...Organizer Extraordinaire!

Day 3 - was organizing the plastic storage containers...This was the picture he posted on his facebook page.

Does your cupboard look like this???  Mine isn't quite that bad...

A few years ago, I got McG to build and install these drawers inside of our cupboard to hold our plastic storage containers.  In 2010, we made the switch to mostly glass containers, but we still have a few plastic one - however, we no longer heat food in the microwave in plastic, we use only the glass ones for that.

It's not the containers that get so messy in my cupboard - its the lids!  I knew that's where I needed to start with this challenge.

I purchased this organizer at the Dollarama to help keep the lids contained.  This is usually used to corral baking sheets in your cabinets, BUT, it works great for keeping plastic lids in place.

Much neater and easier to find the lid you need when you need it!

Are you doing the 31 Days of Organization Challenge?  Today's challenge is REMOTE CONTROLS...we don't have many of those...so I will be skipping this one.  

Happy Organization!

Cheryl

Media Cabinet Transformation

Back when I started this blog I showed you some pictures of what our living room looked like before we started our current renovation...This was the 1970's bookcase we were using to house our TV and stereo equipment...functional - a great hand-me-down from my parents, but not very pretty!  We had a small 22 inch TV at that time, as most of our TV watching is done in the main family room in the basement.  McG won a new 32 inch TV back in August at his company golf tournament...so we needed to make it work in the living room. 

 I knew I would have to do this on a budget because most of the money we allotted for the renovation was going to pay for the new floors...

Here's another look at it...I had added contact paper to the doors and drawers here to try and get rid of some of the bad looking wood grain... In the new living room, I knew I wanted the media cabinet to be on the new short wall overlooking the entryway.  I wanted a sleeker, more modern cabinet and that's exactly what I got......SO HERE'S WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE NOW!

More sleek and modern - we took off the bookcase portion at the top and just kept the cabinet base...we took off the doors on either sides and added the Lansa handles from IKEA ($7.99 for a 2 pack of handles)

This transformation was cheap and easy and fit into our basically non-existent budget quite nicely - total cost about $40 - which included the 3 handles and the 6 castors McG installed on the bottom of the cabinet to make it easier to move on the new floors.  I am contemplating painting the 3 drawer fronts white - I had seen a similar one done on Pinterest - but for the life of me I can't find it now - guess its one of the Pins that Got Away from me...LOL - I did find something kind of similar on houzz.com (below)...

Source: houzz.com

What do you think??? should I go for the white drawers on my "new" media cabinet or stay with all wood grain???  I think I'm going to live with the cabinet for awhile before I make my decision...I have styled them with some simple accessories...that knowing me, will be changing quite often in the coming days

HOW DO YOU LIKE THAT TRANSFORMATION??  I'd love to hear your thoughts on changing the drawer colour!

Cheryl

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