DIY / Upcycle, Organize
Time For A Big Ta Da!!! My Family Command Center is Finally Finished
I think now we are into the third week of a Command Center Project. Of course, having kids around makes everything go so much slower than we would like to, especially when your little ones need more attention or quality time. Because of that, we have to limit how much time we spend on a home’s projects.
Also not sure if I shared with you already or not, a fact that our home is a condominium – where the noise control act prevents us from making too much uproar after 6 pm and this is another speed limitation. To share even more of my dirty secrets – I will tell you where all the heavy-duty work is done. As we lack a garage – believe me or not my hubby took over our enclosed balcony and claimed it as his workshop. He says that it is only for a limited time – until all home renovations and projects are done, but knowing the two of us – guess what – I will never have a nice, clean and relaxing balcony. I guess I have to sacrifice one place in my home for all other rooms to look good.
Also not sure if I shared with you already or not, a fact that our home is a condominium – where the noise control act prevents us from making too much uproar after 6 pm and this is another speed limitation. To share even more of my dirty secrets – I will tell you where all the heavy-duty work is done. As we lack a garage – believe me or not my hubby took over our enclosed balcony and claimed it as his workshop. He says that it is only for a limited time – until all home renovations and projects are done, but knowing the two of us – guess what – I will never have a nice, clean and relaxing balcony. I guess I have to sacrifice one place in my home for all other rooms to look good.
Here it is Our dirty little secret.
Looks like I went a little bit off the subject. Let’s get back to the command center.
When I bought and prepared all the pieces for the command center I was hoping that hanging, will be the easiest part of the project. Oh, how much I was wrong. Thank goodness I know a little handy trick to help me with that. I will post one day step-by-step on how to perfectly hang multiple pieces on the wall without destroying the walls. But for now, I will not go too much into the details about it because I know you are too excited to finally see my finished project. OK, maybe you are not that excited but I definitely am.
To see what will look best where I laid down on the floor all pieces as I was collecting them. I moved them around back and forth to see which layout looks best. I think, I did it a hundred times and I am so glad I did.
Thanks to that I found the perfect layout without destroying my walls.
And now is time for BIG ta da!!!
Here it is. My command center. Perfect family organizer.
It seems like it took me forever from the time I got the idea of doing it to the time I could start using it. But all this hard work definitely paid off. I have a great organizational space in my kitchen which doubles up as a decorative piece. I have the best of both worlds.
LOOKS GORGEOUS! What a great way to keep things neat at home, and to help plan out the busy family agenda. Love the chalk board and magnets at the bottom 😉 So child friendly.
Thank you Joanna I’m glad you like it 🙂
Can you tell me where you got the wooden wall pockets?
Hi Erica.
I found those wooden pockets at Marshals. You can also find similar one at Pottery Barn: http://www.potterybarn.com/products/daily-system-black/?cm_src=AutoSchRel
To see where I got all the pieces for my command center follow this link: https://miniowls.com/1/post/2015/07/family-command-center-the-hunt-for-perfect-pieces-on-a-budg
Good luck in your search.
Thank you
I particularly love your pin board with the world map. How did you make that?
Hi Jessica. I’m so happy that you appreciate my pin board. It would be so hard to describe how I made it in few words. I promise to write a post about it in near future. When I do I will definitely let you know.
Have a great day
Jessica, as per your request the post on “How to change and old corkboard in to a masterpiece” is finally up. You can see it by clicking following link:
http://www.miniowls.com/1/post/2016/01/how-to-change-an-old-corkboard-into-a-masterpiece.html
I hope you will like it.
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