Taking My Vanity From Bleak to Chic With Reorganization and Revamping

Let me cut to the chase here. I’m tired. When I signed up to do a blogging competition, that required me to write a blog post, every week day in the month of July, starting on the 6th of the month, I knew it would be challenging but I needed the challenge, to push me forward in my blogging journey and honestly it has. However, I’m like dead blogger walking. I still want to have quality content, that teaches something, that makes you think, that gives you nice visuals. My ideas are abundant but the work that accompanies the kind of content I like to put out, is draining.

With that being said, I thought it would be a genius idea to reorganize my vanity and write about it, IN THE SAME DAY! Laughs in simple human. All of this, on the same day, that I got my haircut, took my Mother food shopping and got food from the weekly neighborhood food truck selection. The last one was completely optional but it was tacos so, I’m sure you know there was no passing on that.

Laughs in simple human

That’s why it’s 9pm and I’m feverishly trying to crank out my daily submission. It felt like such a good idea at the time. I had already purchased new decor for my vanity as well as my husband’s, I was supposed to reorganize my side as well as his. For the record, his side is as raggedy as it was this morning because I didn’t have time to do both. I knew my side was bad, life and neglect has gotten in the way of managing it but when I really got in there, it was a war zone. Complete chaos. I don’t know how I navigated through it for this long. When our home was built, I thought wow, 6 drawers and under sink space, I should never run out of room! Yet, the more space you have, the more you accumulate and that’s what happened here.

So let’s start with the before pics and let’s go ahead and declare a judgement free zone for the madness, that I am about to present to you. When you come here, you get Mama realness but that doesn’t mean I don’t still feel shame. Gahhh! Just give me my walk of atonement like Cersei of House of Lannister, for what you are about to witness.

The Brutal Before…

 I know, it looks like a bomb exploded. I literally had to take a lunch and 2 fifteen minute breaks while doing this.

 

The good news is, it no longer looks that way. Now I have a clean, organized wonderment of acrylic trays filled with order. I have ORDER and a place for everything and everything in its place.
The motivation behind this entire project, was when I walked into Target and they were selling these acrylic organizers for $3 each, in their little dollar section, usually located in the front of the store. If you’re interested in the under the sink rack, you can find it here. 

I brought some for my husband as well but he got all of zero of them because I used every last one. He can’t stand me y’all but I promised I’d get to his vanity soon. In my defense though, I did clean his side. It looks nice just not as nice as mine, so with no further ado…

The Amazing After…

Whew! It always seems impossible until it’s done, right? This was a hard one for me but now that you’ve been all up and through my bathroom business, what organization projects do you have on the horizon, that will test your might?