Your House Machine

Your House Machine

Photo essay: Decluttering and creation one fell swoop

In which I get slightly handy.

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Rebecca | Your House Machine
Aug 15, 2025
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Today’s post will be a photo essay of my weekend DIY project transforming a messy no-man’s-land into a LEGO room.

My daughter’s bedroom closet is really narrow and deep (a shape we all know I struggle with), and I was never able to figure out how to set it up for clothes storage. This room was my WFH office during COVID, and then it became a room for cast-off toys.

Last week I decided to turn it into a LEGO room to support my daughter’s burgeoning interest.

Below is where we started. “Art table” in foreground, LEGO heap and random discarded items in background. Lots of scraps of paper and debris on the floor at all times.

It was always super messy, and the LEGO pieces would get everywhere. Never one to let a mess persist, I hung up a curtain so I didn’t have to look at it. (When you can’t get control of the mess, just don’t look at the mess, amiright? I have a history of deploying curtains when all else fails.)

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