The post and giveaway below are sponsored by The Shelving Store. All opinions expressed belong to me.
My mom gave me a great piece of advice recently when I was feeling down about sheltering-in-place. She said pick ONE project a day to accomplish. As a person who usually thinks “I need to do it all — and right now,” it was a total mind-shift. Slowly I’ve done some spring cleaning and changed a few things around the house that didn’t require a trip to the store. Having projects has been key to my mental health!
A project that has been weighing on me for a few years though is our hideous basement closet. I knew I wanted it to house our board games, extra pantry items, entertaining items, and snow gear, but I wasn’t sure how to make it happen or what it could look like.
So it sat filled with junk and zero order. Honestly, it gave me hives every time I opened it…and the stuff just piled up.
BEFORE:
The idea of built-in shelves overwhelmed me because what if I needed to use the space for something else in the future? Having something permanent wouldn’t be ideal.
Enter The Shelving Store. This Michigan-based company provides a broad range of quality shelving and storage solutions.
AFTER:
With their help, I was able to transform the useless space into something functional that also grants me the flexibility to change it as time marches forward.
I was thrilled to not only have room for our games and some sensory and craft items, but also our camping and beach supplies, and items for entertaining. And I still have tons of space leftover.
The kids tested a few ways to organize the games and decided that for many of our games, laying them on the side was the way to go. We used a pack of dollar store elastic headbands to hold the boxes closed to ensure pieces won’t fall out.
I love that the shelves can adjust so if I decided to change it up one day, it will be easy to do…and require NO tools!
Isn’t organization the way to your heart? It makes me happy every time I open it now! It will make me even happier when I can finally add our tub of winter gear too…very soon! 😉
About The Shelving Store + Shelving Inc.
Founded in 1960, Madison Heights, Michigan-based Shelving Inc. is a second-generation family-owned company that has successfully grown from a small family enterprise into a major regional and national player.
While Shelving Inc. is rooted in serving automotive and manufacturing suppliers, it also serves consumers at TheShelvingStore.com.
Check out some of the neat things they offer to help organize your life:
If you aren’t familiar with purchasing shelving, it can be very expensive. Not only are the prices awesome for the quality, but the products I received were SO easy to put together.
For my game closet project, I chose:
- (2) Black Wire Shelving with 4 Shelves – 18″d x 48″w x 72″h
- Translucent shelf liners {there are also colors available, which could be really fun, especially for a kid’s closet!}
- I opted to add some dividers, a wire basket accessory and a sloped hangar rail {which I plan to use for our winter gear}. There are lots of cool accessories to add-on here.
The shelves are wide enough to hold large bins if needed and each shelf can hold up to 300 pounds of weight.
My 9-year-old and I built them in no time. The directions were clear, and best of all? They required NO tools. That sure made this mama happy 😉
One thing I really enjoyed learning about this local company is that they donate shelving to non-profit organizations and give 10 percent of their profits to the Capuchin Soup Kitchen in Detroit. How great is that?
Learn more about The Shelving Store on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.
The Shelving Store Coupon Code
Shelving Inc. has generously offered my readers a coupon code. Get 10% off wire shelving with code MRSWEBER10. This code can be used with other offers {make sure to look for these on the main page!} once per customer. It will be available from May 1-31, 2020.
Visit HERE to shop. Happy organizing!
Giveaway
I’ve partnered with Shelving Inc. to provide one $500 gift card to The Shelving Store to a lucky mom. Winner must be a U.S. resident age 18 or up and cannot be employed by Shelving Inc.
Giveaway will end on May 9, 2020 at midnight. Winner will have 12 hours to respond to claim the prize.
Good luck!
I need to makeover my hallway closet. It is like a large “junk closet” with so many random things thrown in there. New shevling would definately help!
I would redo my closet that is threatening to fall down
Oh I would love this for my pantry I have so much stuff just on the floor I don’t have enough shelfs this would be so awesome.
Parts of the basement or garage could both use some help. Not sure what I would tackle first.
My basement and garage could both use some help. Not sure where I would start.
I would love to makeover my garage!
I would love to makeover the storage area of my garage!
So many places I could use this in the new house! Laundry room, basement, garage, closets, etc…
Would love to have these shelves in garage and/or mud room!
Love your info and pics. Thanks so much.
I would like to use them in the laundry room or hallway closet.
I would use them in my laundry room or hallway closet.
I need to organize my basement and well everything!
I would like to make a space in my basement for a pantry.
Thank you!
I would make some adjustments to my kitchen so I can store stuff.
I would love to be able to add shelving to my bathroom to provide some extra space to make it feel more homey!
We could also benefit from a game/playroom makeover!
I would makeover our storage area in our garage. This would help a ton!
I would organize my sons room eith this system
I’d love to make over my linen closet.
Basement closet filled with toys and who know what!
Thanks for giveaway
i would do my master bedroom closets ,they are horrible and overloaded
Closet organization and slide-out kitchen items would be high on my list to tackle with this prize.
My home office desperately needs some storage and organization!
I would like to add additional shelves to our office closet. It is our black hole for things without a home.
My basement “pantry” are could use more shelving. Thanks.
My basement ‘pantry’ could use some useful space. Thanks
My basement needs this help/ Thansnk
in the storage room
This would go to making over the garage
My laundry room, right now has some nasty rusty shelves, would love to have some clean new ones. Thanks!
The pantry
The pantry.
There are five of us in a 1000sqft house, so anything we t organize is super helpful!
I would love to make over my laundry room/ junk pile area of the basement. Maybe get a little something for my pantry too. 🙂
I would do our playroom
I would redo the closets in my house as they are all so high its useless to store anything on them otherwise I’d be constantly climbing a ladder.
My attic is just screaming for organization
I would like to make over my office.
If I won I would use the shelves in my laundry room & the garage. This would be an amazing win! Thanks so much for the chance!
I would love to makeover our laundry room and storage area with this! Badly need some organization! Thanks for the giveaway.
My daughter’s bedroom needs this! Grandma got excited when we adopted a 4 year old and sent us boxes and boxes of toys and clothes. Some of the clothes were for 10 year olds! LOL! We love grandma but she got WAY too excited and now we have boxes of things we will need to store for a few years still!
My daughter’s bed room needs this! When we adopted a 4 year old grandma went nuts and sent boxes and boxes of clothes, shoes and toys. Many of the clothes are way too big and are for up to 10 year olds! So we’ve got to start storing these things long-term! We love grandma but boy did she get excited!
Shelving would help us organize and fix up our living room. It is shared by the normal living room type stuff and my husband’s office. I can only dream of what shelving could do.
I would like to makeover my garage, it is a mess.
I would love this for the disaster area that is my daughter’s bedroom!
I need storage space in my basement.
I would love to makeover my bathroom.
I seriously need to makeover either our laundry room or our master bedroom closet. The master closet is such a weird layout, we need to work on maximizing the space.
Organization=sanity for me! This project looks great.
I seriously need a garage makeover. It’s a flippin pigsty!!! Everyone at home playing and doing projects and stuff just getting thrown back in because there’s no identified space for if.
I would use this for shelving for my laundry room, closet and my garage! This would be so wonderful as I’ve been needing shelving for awhile and just didn’t know where to get started. I’ve been spending a lot of time recently cleaning out and organizing my closets and my garage! I live in a small condo and really need to maximize space. I have a lot of space in my garage, but no shelves at all so everything is just stacked in boxes and it takes up to much space and makes it so hard to find something when I need it. My goal is to get shelves up in my garage so I can clear out an area to make a work-out/exercise space for myself. Thank you so much for this amazing giveaway!
I’d like to makeover our walk-in closet! This would be perfect.
I’d love to makeover my walk in closet!
I would get my tools organized!
I’d like to makeover our family room with the help of The Shelving Store
I would love to use this in my laundry room. It sure would help me organize and make better use of the space I have.
I would use this in a craft and game closet to better organize things.
I would use it to organize a craft closet
I could definitely use this in my computer room/office space!
I could definitely use this in my office room to declutter some space!
I could definitely use this in my office to declutter some space in there!
Amazing !! I would love to be more organized.
I need my basement laundryroom/ pantry organized real bad.
I really need to get my laundry room/ pantry organized
More organizing of the garage with Akro bins – love those! Also would love the Estique organizer
I would makeover my basement. I have so many decorations and presents down there that need to be organized.
I would use this in my laundry room.
I would love to make over my bedroom 🙂
My kitchen could use a lot of help. It’s small and everything seems unorganized.
I would love to make over my kitchen and bedroom closet! They both need help getting organized!
I would like to makeover my kitchen.
I would you like to makeover my son’s bedroom with the help of The Shelving Store. Thanks for the chance!
I would like to organize my son’s room
I would use this in my garage or maybe my crafting room. I’m an organization freak and currently have so many things stacked that I could use this for.
Being home 24/7 has shown me that we really need to get more organzed. These shelves would be perfect for my wife’s office which I have been sharing for the last 8 weeks.
My laundry room this would be awesome
My basement!!! Total man cave right now but needs to be organized.
I have a serious need for shoe organization!
We have a breezeway that becomes a catch all for everything! I would love to organize our outdoor games, shoes, winter gear, etc.
I would love to organize bedroom closet
This would be great to organize my basement.
I would love to make over my laundry room.
I would love to do my kitchen. I do not have much storage in my kitchen more shelves would make a huge difference.
I’m trying to find a place to email you to see if the winner is actually me “Michele C” or if there was a different “Michelle C” spelled with 2 “L”s?
I would love some organization!!! Would love this !!!