The Tots100 Home Club is a brand new partnership between the Tots100 and Homebase. Over the coming months, we’ll be sharing with you some ideas and inspiration for how you can make the most of your home – without spending a fortune.
This month, we challenged five Tots100 bloggers to tackle a challenge that many of us face – storage. *guilty glance in the direction of the understairs cupboard*
How can you improve the storage in your home? Especially if – like our bloggers – you’ve only got £100 to spend?
First up, Kelly from Domestic Goddesque admitted that her daughters’ bedroom is a toy-filled den of chaos. Check out the Before post, and see how Kelly transformed the room with some clever shelving and storage tricks.
Our second blogger, Heather from Growing Spaces, took on the task of transforming the messy, cluttered hallway in her Before post. The transformation into a colourful modern space is nothing short of spectacular – we especially love the use of bread bins!
Like many of us, Karen from The White Approach works from home, and her desk area has taken over the dining room, as shown in her Before post. But Karen shows how using something unexpected – in this case, a gardening storage unit – can look beautiful with just a little bit of creativity.
Liz at Violet Posy has a cupboard. You know the cupboard – we all have one, right? Where things go to hide away. And every time you try to open it, everything threatens to topple out? Do you recognise the picture in this Before post? Well, just look at what some smart storage and a lick of paint can do!
Finally, Jen at Mum in the Madhouse has been looking at tips for storing her craft materials – some great tips here, thanks Jen!
Next month, the Home Club bloggers will be looking at an area that’s often neglected in family homes – the main bedroom. How can you transform your bedroom into an oasis of calm if you’ve only got £100 to spend? Keep your eyes peeled for tips from our brilliant Home Club bloggers. What are your bedroom decor challenges? We’d love to hear about it, and do let us know if you’d like to take on a Home Club challenge – what’s your must-tackle project?
About Sally
Sally Whittle is founder of the Tots100, Foodies100, BlogSummit and the MAD Blog Awards. When she's not working, she can be found blogging at Who's the Mummy, or having fun with her 7 year old daughter, Flea.
Loved reading all of those – inspirational!
Now please please please let me join in and make over my conservatory. It is laughingly referred to as ‘the sun room’, but it is basically a dumping ground of pure squalor. It even contains a bin bag full of stuff that my husband has collected in case a tramp ever knocks on the door wanting a sleeping bag or some warm socks or something (bless. But seriously – what are the chances?)
Here it is: http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y20/thelise10/sunroom.jpg
Hi,
I love this club and series! Giving me just the motivation I need!
We have lots of big renovation workthat we need to do to to our house-an extension, transforming the attic into a bedroom and a new kitchen/bathroom.
But until we win the lottery (sigh!), our smaller projects which we could be challenged to complete for under £100 are: transforming our dump/rubbish/junk room into a working utility room; creating a cosy space for our baby within our bedroom; transforming a child’s room for one into a shared room for two, organising our office space, decorating our upstairs hall with innovative book storage, organising our airing cupboard, sorting out the garden or refreshing our dining room. Basically, the whole house needs a challenge!
Keep the ideas coming!
Thank you!
love
Claire
xxx
Diary of the Evans-Crittens
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I definitely want to take a look at the craft storing materials, my work area is a real mess. I have actually been spending this past few months trying to sort out problem areas. Still left to do would be my eldest son’s wardrobe. It is a walk in wardrobe so should provide lots of storage but its badly organised so just is a real mess. The garage could do with some of those useful hanging things for all the stuff thats lying about making me trip over everything!
I would really love to get involved in this, it perfectly suits my blog and what most of my projects are about.
I need to read all these! We definitely need better storage!
I’d love to join in (if it’s not too late), I’m about to tackle the wood chip that has covered my house and I can’t bear to look at it any longer
I’ve got major work planned in the next few month so would also like to join in