Back to school organizing, hang it up with MK Design!

It’s back to school time…let the chaos begin!

Is your house a drop zone for papers and backpacks after school? Many of my clients have claimed that they don’t know how to manage the school clutter, but the truth is that you have to take the time to find a “home” for everything. Maybe you don’t have the space for built in mudroom lockers and maybe you don’t even have a mudroom, but if you have a wall, you can make it happen. (I do have to stop right here and give a shout out to those of you with salvaged high school lockers. I. LOVE. EM!)

OK, here’s the story of a busy family with four kids. They hired me to help them organize and decorate their back hall (more on that whole project another time). One thing she wanted was a locker system for the kid’s backpacks, but she was so short on space & budget, that we really couldn’t make it happen. With four super creative kids who brought home a lot of artwork and school projects, we also wanted to figure out a way to display some of these. I set off shopping to find the prefect solution. I heart Target for so many reasons, but especially for this project in particular.

The Artwork Display & Storage Frame was perfect. To prevent the overwhelming piles of paper she has had in years past, this year she will let her kids keep one piece of artwork a week and display it here.

(Check out this blog post at I Heart Organizing for the BEST school stuff organizing ideas. I used her ideas for my two boys.)

Now onto the backpacks!

Beneath each frame we hung a simple hook (to secure the weight of the backpacks we anchored them in the wall and used larger screws than what came in the package).