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Why you are never really done
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Why you are never really done

It's best to just accept this reality rather than be enraged.

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I wrote a post several months back about our entryway solution. After prototyping a “bin” system where each family member got their own bin for hats, gloves, sunglasses, etc, we went live with a fancy custom built-in solution.

I’m sharing the full size preview because the photo is important here, but also you should click and read this if you haven’t yet.

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To each, a drawer

Rebecca @ Your House Machine
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April 8, 2023
To each, a drawer

Our challenge is that we live in a Victorian home built in 1905, and apparently in 1905 people didn’t need places to stash their keys and facemasks. So the front door “landing” area is really small and doesn’t have space for much of anything. We also don’t have a real coat closet...

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So basically I went to great effort to create a system that eliminates entryway clutter, holds our record and book collection, and looks nice (the article has suggestions if you very reasonably don’t care to drop $$$ on a custom build).

And today here’s what it looks like:

Scream emoji, right??

What the heck happened here?

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