Full Speed Ahead On The Storage Room Project

Now that I’ve finished my outdoor projects for the time being, I’m ready to focus 100% of my attention on the storage room project until it’s finished. I’m actually a little bit sad about it because I loved being able to work outside every day, but it’s just getting too hot for that. So I’ll be working inside for the month of August. I hope to get back outside and tackle more outdoor projects when cooler weather gets here, but for now, I need to focus on inside projects.

At the beginning of this year, when I wrote my 2026 list of home goals, the only exterior projects I had on that list involved the exterior of the bedroom door — painting the trim, building steps, and adding landscaping around that door. So now that I took the last three months to do way more outside than I had originally planned, I’m sure I’ll have to adjust my expectations a bit for the rest of this year. I have a feeling that the one project that will have to get pushed to next year is my workshop.

There are three other three areas that are on my list of goals for this year that still haven’t been finished. The first is the breakfast room, which requires no construction and just needs to be decorated and turned back into an actual dining space with a table and chairs instead of a sitting room with recliners and a TV.

And then there’s the sunroom, which I want to turn into a home gym at one end and a TV area on the other end. This will be a big project because this room is currently filled to the brim with stuff. It’s basically a huge storage room, but when it’s cleared out, it will look something like this, except with an added 13 years of wear and tear and mistreatment since it’s been used as a storage room that I thought we were going to tear down…

Obviously, turning this room into something that looks presentable will take quite a bit of time and effort. I still question whether it’s even possible, but I’m sure going to try.

All of that to say that, because I have so many other projects I want to make time for this year (and there are only five months left), I want to get through this storage room project as fast as I can. Right now, the room looks like this…

That’s how I left it the last time I was forced inside because of rain, so I spent that day working on tearing out that bathroom to make room for the storage room. But that’s as far as I got.

But because I want this project to go as fast as possible, I’ve been looking for ways to make it faster and easier. I realize it’s just a storage room, and I’m the only person who will ever actually use this room. But I also really like pretty, nice, custom spaces, even if they’re just for me. I’ve been all over the map when it comes to deciding on what kind of storage shelves I want for this room. I’ve considered everything from ready-made, adjustable wall units to building cabinets from scratch that match the cabinets in my walk-in closet.

But over the last couple of weeks, I’ve been asking myself what’s more important. Having the most beautiful, custom storage room that rivals my walk-in closet, or having a simple, organized, and finished storage room. I’ve settled on the latter, so I’ve tried to readjust my expectations for this room and come up with a way that I can build attractive storage shelves without going to all of the trouble that I went to in my closet where everything is on display. Nothing in this storage room will be on display, so I don’t need this room to be that fancy. I want it to look nice when it’s finished. And yes, there will be bold color and wallpaper because I like those things and I want it to be fun to look at for me when I open those doors. But I really just want to get it finished.

You can see that she used a series of wood blocks attached to the side pieces of the shelving unit, and those spaces create the supports for the shelves. If she wants to adjust the height of the shelves, she simply pulls the shelf out and moves it up or down.

Here’s what the finished shelving unit looks like. I think that looks pretty amazing!

I really loved this design as soon as I watched that video, and I’m considering building shelves like this for my own storage room. Like I said, I just want quick and easy. I want this storage room to look nice and organized when it’s finished, but it doesn’t need to look like my closet. I don’t need all of the trim and fancy stuff that will take a long time. I just want it finished. I want it to be pretty (for me), but mainly, I just want it finished. I’d rather focus the bulk of my time and energy on areas that guests will actually see when they come to our house.

Addicted 2 Decorating is where I share my DIY and decorating journey as I remodel and decorate the 1948 fixer upper that my husband, Matt, and I bought in 2013. Matt has M.S. and is unable to do physical work, so I do the majority of the work on the house by myself. You can learn more about me here.