organization – Riveted

Cord Clips for the Airstream Office

Laura Domela — Sun, 21 Apr 2013 18:55:25 +0000

One of the times we went back to The Container Store to fine tune the closet organization, I saw these little "Cable Drop Cord Clips" and thought it might be the perfect thing to hold our laptop power supply cords when we convert the office into our dining room. Often when we return to work we end up having to fish the cords from the floor.

They're perfect. They stick on, are totally unobtrusive, come in a variety of colors in packs of six, and they work!

Details About Some of Our Interior Improvements

Laura Domela — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 14:31:17 +0000

We've been busy organizing and streamlining this week while working out at Champoeg Park. Thought I'd just share a few of the details.

I know I mentioned before, new pillows. Still really loving the extra brightness these bring to the interior of the Airstream:

(Leaf patterned pillows from Jo, and tangerine ladder quilted pillow covers from Barbara, both found via Etsy.)

We got a new cutting board…a dark walnut Boos Block. The striped one was cool but I'd been eying this one for a while and thought it would look a bit more elegant. I think it does.

It's got a cool shape, and some sturdy, non-slip legs. Here's a macro side-view:

I picked up two of these melamine trays from The Container Store and used a little museum putty to keep them in place on our nightstands. That way if we leave small things on the nightstand they have a better chance of staying put. Also, a magnetic pencil/pen holder that I bought for our home office that didn't work is now a remote holder, attached to the wall with 3M non-damaging hanging strips.

I picked up a compact broom/dustpan combo (also from The Container Store) that I could hang on the inside of the closet door. I like this model because the broom part is contained inside the dustbin.

This was the smallest tool/broom hanger I could find and it works great (also attached with the same, removable non-destructive 3M strips):

The closet!! We're really happy with the improvements we made there. I also picked up a couple of white mesh baskets from The Container Store (are you sensing a theme here??) that fit the space perfectly. The basket on top of the closet shelf is an Elfa Narrow Mesh 2-Runner and goes all the way to the back of the closet:

And I picked up two Elfa X-Narrow Mesh 2-Runners for the closet shelves to hold socks and underwear:

Kevin's still organizing the communications/entertainment cabinet and once he's got that how he wants it, I'll include a photo.

Oh yeah, in the checkout line at The Container Store I found this:

It's 3.5" in diameter and has suction cups on the back of it. I originally thought I'd put it back in the bedroom on the wood by the mirror, but it fell off a couple times, so I moved it to the kitchen.

Time to spend a little time on the exterior now! Walberninze!

Closet Organization

Laura Domela — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 13:32:36 +0000

Last night, in about an hour, we built shelves into one half of our closet. An HOUR! Crazy. Here's what we did: we measured all the things we could measure inside the closet, and then we went to Home Depot and did some in-store planning and spec'd out what we could build using the ClosetMaid wire shelving parts. (That part took considerably longer than an hour.)

Then, we got the stuff back to the Airstream, measured some more, cut some stuff, and it all just worked exactly how we'd planned it while standing in Home Depot. When does THAT ever happen? We didn't even have to go back for parts we forgot.

We first put up a divider (used a section of shelving vertically, attaching it to the floor of the closet and the underside of the shelf above) so we had a right side support for the shelves:

We had to cut away part of the shelf to make room for the clothes rod.

These brackets went on the left wall of the closet to hold the front left side of the shelves:

And on the right side, the shelf rests on the center support we installed:

Here it is finished. That cord/charger is for the Dyson cordless vacuum…I'll be mounting that in the bottom of the closet tomorrow, as well as figuring out a better way to organize the top shelf in the closet. If I come up with anything good, I'll let you know!