Posts

  • xml button - small
  • Last Updated: Mon, 01 Dec 2008 21:22:00 GMT
Thursday, 23 September 2004

Help me fit into my studio apartment. Please.

I need some serious organizational help, advice, wisdom, brainstorms, etc. Trust me, if I had some money I'd just pay someone to do it for me, but I don't, so the only thing I can spend money on is things that will help me get organized like nice bins and boxes and drawers and shelves.

This is the situation... we moved from a giant 2 bedroom apartment where we used one of the extra bedrooms almost the whole time as a junk depository to a tiny studio apartment with one small closet which is mostly filled by our clothes. We have a surprising amount of furniture and things to fit into this space, some of it being extremely problematic. These include a couch (which is dying and may be replaced but for now it stays), a TV and the console it sits on, a 29-gallon fishtank inhabited by one turtle, a large computer desk, a full-size bed, a dining table and chairs (just replaced a large square expanding dining table and folding chairs with a much smaller bar-height circular table and stools), an armchair, and bicycles one and two (the model isn't on their site anymore - the Cyclone). While these things are problematic enough, the real issue is our stuff. I think if we got that under control we could get our furniture situation figured out.

So what am I looking for? Clever and inexpensive ideas for storage and organization. We have hardwood floors and pets that shed a lot so there is hair all over. I'd prefer closed things rather than open things that will fill with animal hair and also tempt cats to do things like sleep on our tax records. I would do something drastic like hang things from the ceiling, like our bikes, and patch the holes later (I'm a fix-it kind of girl, I wouldn't worry about that...) but we have a dropped ceiling with tiles so that won't work.

Any suggestions??? Help!

Posted: Sep 23, 2004 22:22

0 comments | 0 trackbacks

permanent link

Category: /Help

Thanks for stopping by!

Title Photo

About my title photo:

Inside the Prudential Center, Boston.

Check out old title photos.

 
 

Plurk Updates

 
 

On my iPod

"It was the wicked and wild wind / blew the doors down to let me in"

Coldplay

"And life is like a pipe / and I'm a tiny penny rolling up the wall inside"

Amy Winehouse

 
 

Stuff

Recommendations and links to stuff mentioned on this weblog (music, books, movies, etc.)

Music

Books

 

Buy Me Stuff

Really?

Thanks, very nice of you.

First, check my

Amazon.com wishlist

and there's no need to worry that I already have it or won't use it.

Tip: Check around for better pricing. Amazon's pricing is usually good, but not always the best available.

A quick Froogle search can't hurt.