First let me just tell you how much time and mental conceptualizing all the cabinet planning took me. I consider myself a very organized, type-A person, but keeping in mind several different spaces was a lot for my mental filing cabinet. I wanted everything to be designed to maximize the storage of what is to live there, which meant that the first step was making lists of what would belong in each room. Then, how can I use it best? Do you want it to hang, be in a drawer, an overhead bin, a cubby? Do you want the cubby to pull down or roll out? There are endless choices and it was hard for me to visualize.
About 3 months ago, I was thrilled to walk through our drawings with the carpenter and start making concepts into reality.
Downstairs, let’s start with the mudroom, which is where we will enter the house from the garage and drop our shoes, keys, and bags.
PANTRY: We don’t have the cabinets we ordered yet for the kitchen and service pantry, so let’s move on to our pantry.
OFFICE:
CRAFT ROOM:
In Mr. B’s office, we built a back row of cabinets.
Under the stairs, we ended up with some extra storage. I found this picture on Houzz and we decided to copy the concept.
Heading upstairs, we have a family loft/hangout space.
Sweet Girl’s room
In the Master bedroom, we had to go back and open the wall to move a heating pipe where the bookshelves will be.
