Finished with the storage unit

I moved out of the storage unit Thanksgiving weekend, and let me tell you, does it ever feel good! I was pleasantly surprised that I am not overrun with boxes. Excess furniture is in the back room until I decide whether or not it has a permanent home here, and 95% of the boxes went into the garagey shed with just enough room for bikes, chipper-shredder and gardening equipment.

The other 5% of boxes are in the back bedroom and contain clothing that I have obviously lived without for well over a year. I will be reviewing the contents of those boxes and hopefully making a huge Goodwill run later this week.

I've completely emptied several kitchen boxes that had previously been partially emptied as I looked for the most basic kitchen essentials. I also had a number of empty boxes in the garagey-shed that I'd hung onto because I figured I'd move out for construction "any day now." Getting rid of those cleared up a lot of shelf space in the garage and I was able to do quite a bit of rearranging in there.

That's good news since all my Christmas decor bins are stacked in the back room. They are OK in there for now and I plan to have cleared more room in the garagey-shed by the time I'm taking down the tree.

I'm also contemplating removing some of the cabinets in my kitchen and replacing them with some IKEA cabinets to improve the storage situation (and also because some of the existing cabinets are falling apart) so that I can unpack more kitchen boxes. I've designed the kitchen with the IKEA kitchen design software and it's quite exciting to see the space more efficiently used. I'll post photos for sure if I tackle that project during my time off this month.