This isn’t your typical home decor post but I wanted to share it with you anyway.  If you aren’t on social media, you have never seen this are of our home…  our home decor room. When we were in the first stages of planning the layout of our new home build, Deb wanted storage.  If you are new here, we have lived in homes of many sizes.  In the last eight years, we went from a house with 3,000 square feet to one with 600 sq feet… back up to around 2600 square feet down to one with around 1,100 square feet which was the rental.  Only the larger ones had storage.  The other two barely even had closets.  

We then moved here on the property to the cottage.  And, since it was a temporary situation that would turn into a workshop for Deb, we didn’t plan a lot of storage space.  That is the reason behind one of Deb’s MUST HAVES for the new house.  We planned on having a mechanical room in the basement to house the furnace, water heaters, water softer, etc.  And a lot of storage space, as well, for my extra home decor.  Recently, we started working on this area and I wanted to share the progress.

Our Home Decor Room

Our home decor room is directly below our dining room.  And, our dining room is around 15′ x 30’… I believe.  So it is a good sized room.  Only half of it was used for mechanical part of the house so it left a great size for storage.

I rotate my home decor a lot so this space is so handy for us.  The items that we have in here now are things that I still love:  vintage and antique items, home decor, and seasonal things.  They were all brought over here from the cottage.  Deb organized them so that I can easily see what I want to use when switching out our decor.

I figured I would show you these spaces now because soon..  this home decor room will be FULL.  We still have the entire storage unit to move here to the new house.  Our goal is to do that soon…. “soon” as in maybe next week.  Since we are in Ohio, we have to pay attention to the weather.  We noticed that we are to have several days that will be around 60 degrees which is highly unusual for this time of year.  So what better time to move?

We originally thought of  hiring some people to move everything, but we decided it may be better to do it ourselves.  As we could go through everything and sort things as we go.  Because we know there are a few things that will be donated, sold, etc.  So if you are on social media, stay tuned to stories because we will for sure be sharing those shenanigans. 

 We are so excited to get everything moved from the storage unit to our home decor room… as it will be the last major move in our life time.  

Links to the storage racks:  Set of wire foldable racks / Larger non-foldable rack

Our Flooring in the Home Decor Room

The flooring in our home decor room is from Rubber Flooring, Inc.  We ordered it for the floor in our workout room and had leftover.  So rather than send it all back, we made this room a little better.  It helped a lot with the sound and just finished it off. 

UPDATE

I shared our home decor room in this post months before we emptied our storage unit.  So, I wanted to give you updated photos of it now.  Because it looks A LOT different.  It’s fuller and a lot more organized.  Again, I love being able to come down here to shop our own home with my treasures that I have collected for years.

As you can see, Deb added more shelves for me and placed them so that I could use every square inch of them.