7/23/2023 0 Comments Escape room command centerIt’s great to have a specific place where these things belong. One little floral bag even holds …er… uh…my chocolate stash! (wink) A cork board on the wall, and a calendar that collects sticky notes display lots of lists, reminders and inspiration. Pretty gift bags also make great places to hold notepaper, stickers, cards and letters. I have a wide shelf at elbow height that holds files, trays, baskets and such, very handy for all my personal files and office supplies. As a daughter at home, my command center is in my bedroom closet. I love to see all styles of command centers. One drawer holds stamps and envelopes and the other is for phone chargers.ĭo you have a cabinet in your home that you’ve set up as an organized destination? Similar Cabinets:ĭear Melissa, thanks for sharing your home details with us, it’s all definitely inspiring! I’m learning to keep my things simpler and tidier. If we need to flee in the middle of the night with keys and a flashlight, we’ll be all set. ![]() Keeping certain items handy in this cabinet means we also feel prepared with some essentials in the event of emergency. We also have a magnetic clip (stuck onto the door with a command strip) to clip notes. This is a handy location for these items in case the power goes out, or if a guest is staying in our home and might need to easily access them. Press and stick hooks on the other door hold an extra set of keys and an emergency flashlight. If they become a catch all it’s time to pare down to a more defined purpose. The key with baskets is to give them a designated purpose and stick with it. Eye glasses, receipts…we’ve used them in different ways in different seasons, depending on our needs. Paper trays keep our most important, currently relevant and more time sensitive papers sorted so I rarely have to panic wondering where I put something. My cork came in the shapes of triangles, but you could (of course!) use any shape or size to suit your needs. A few peel and stick cork boards on the inside of the door became a spot to stick things like emergency numbers, addresses, contractor business cards, lists, school forms or invitations. It actually didn’t take much to make this cabinet useful for our needs. A couple of years later I can say this continues to be a useful and (fairly) organized destination in our home that we still use every day! We still use this organizational system today, so this isn’t one of those projects bloggers might show that never really get used. Once we emptied the cabinet, it was easy to reimagine it for a new purpose. The glassware and entertaining items were relocated to a different cabinet to make room for the new command center. I’ll put a source list at the bottom of this post with what we used and similar sources! We don’t have a lot of room and our budget for completing this project was probably less than $30, so we had to get creative and use what we already had. (This cabinet is out of stock, but this one is similar and I’ll link to others at the end of the post!). So I decided to reinvent this cabinet and give it a new purpose as our command central. Early on I realized we didn’t have a good “spot” for “those things” that you need to keep track of in a busy household. When we moved to this house, the cabinet ended up in our little entry. So handy and fun to have a spot for table setting. We used it as a hospitality cabinet! It’s where we kept things like our cloth napkins and napkin rings, dinner candles, serving utensils and special glasses. ![]() In our old house, this cabinet was in our dining room. You may remember seeing this cabinet in my books ( Simple Organizing), or in our last house, too, when it had an entirely different purpose. ![]() Since the task of decluttering or organization itself isn’t a big passion of mine, I guess thinking in terms of a creating a specific “destination” for things I like to do in my home is more inspiring to me. I’m a big fan of creating “destinations” or designated “stations” for organization! Coffee stations, gift wrap stations, mail stations, family command centers, I enjoy them all. I’m not obsessive about detailed organization, but I definitely feel more at peace when I have a few simple systems I can rely on. Simplifying, editing and staying organized has to be a daily task. Life around my house gets a little hectic sometimes. We’ve even repurposed it a couple of times to suit our needs in two different homes! Today I’ll share how we set this cabinet up as our home command center. You might remember seeing this cabinet in our home over the years.
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