Over the past few months I have been working with freedomRail to makeover our master closet. When I was first contacted to work with the closet and organization solutions company, I wondered how I could add value and translate savings with custom storage organization that is typically anything BUT affordable.
During this time, I have taken the time to learn more about the solutions freedomRail offers. I have learned a great deal about the quality of their products compared to their competitors. After looking for quite a while for an affordable solution, I’m excited to share more about the options they have available for custom storage needs.
First, you should know that organization is not my forte. Since the time we moved into our current home, we have wanted needed a nice, organized closet. What has stopped us? Um, they are like thousands of dollars! Finding something was never a priority in the grand scheme of our saving and spending. All of the options were way out of our price range so this need was tabled since we needed more time to research other solutions we could afford.
As we began to look at different storage solutions, we liked the custom built options. However, those, again, were way more than we wanted to spend. We knew a nice system would not be cheap but we also knew that we didn’t want the cheapest either. We have always focused on quality over quantity and try to save to ensure we can afford that.
As I looked at the freedomRail options, I was happy to see they offer wood veneer finish. We have a open-air rail system now that was installed by the builders. It wasn’t working (as you can see by the pictures below). Because of this we wanted, and needed, a wood finish that was durable. Most brands we have considered are flimsy plywood which wouldn’t hold what we needed whatsoever.
Yes, I know it’s ridiculously messy. Yes, I realize we (mostly me) have too much. Yes, by showing these on the interwebz, my husband is probably mortified. At least his side is organized (the top picture) :-) In my defense, this was coming off of a few weeks of travel. I am a clothes thrower when I can’t find what I need plus I wait until the last minute to pack. That’s enough excuses…
Next month, I will share the after photos with you. Granted, the before was really bad (just keepin’ it real, ya’ll). Our reveal photos are AMAZING! Not just pretty but completely functional. It’s a system I know I can actually use for the long haul!
And since I have bared my virtual soul, and closet, with you which is somewhat embarrassing, will you do the same? I am giving away $100 cash! I would just like the answer to this one simple question. What is the biggest organizational challenge you are dealing with? So, humor me and let me know.
I’ll select one winner randomly on November 22. The winner will need to have a Paypal account since the payment will be sent via Paypal. It’s so much easier for me to send this way rather than a gift card. This should help you get your Christmas shopping started off right :)
Giveaway is now closed. Thank you for entering!
Disclaimer: I received a closet makeover by freedomRail, however this giveaway was not sponsored by freedomRail. See my Disclaimer Policy for additional information.
@foodhussy – my biggest organizational challenge is the kitchen! the pots/pans/big bowls/spices/packaged food – argh!!!! It all falls out every time I open a cupboard!
Thanks!
My biggest organizational challenge is what to do with all my shoes!
My biggest challenge is paperwork! When I seem to tame the piles more just appears! It’s a never-ending battle.
The BASEMENT….I don’t even know where to begin :(
Truth time? I’ve got too much stuff. My space is full of stuff I don’t use and probably won’t use, and I don’t do well with keeping the stuff I do use in an organized fashion – I start to slip and then just stop :(
I have 1 closet in my house ( besides what’s in the bedrooms) and in that closet is our water softner! I have no storage in my house anywhere…I have totes with stuff in it and stacked up. So unattractive when I have company..but I have no where to put anything!!!!!!!!!!!!
My garage. No matter what I do, stuff is falling out all over the place. By the way, I love your pictures. It’s comforting to know that other’s closets look exactly like mine!!!
The whole house! We live in an older home when closets were less important. The bedroom closet is super small and won’t even hold all of my clothes – my poor husband doesn’t even have a closet.
My biggest organizational challenge is my PLAYROOM! It looks like your closet, a daycare room, and the toy isle at Walmart on Black Friday all combined. I think we have carpet in this room, but I haven’t seen it in years. With 4 kids this is my biggest challenge:-)
we ( boyfriend and i) moved to arizona into a 1 bedroom apt after living in a 2 bedroom in nebraska… and the only apt available in the complex we decided on is a handicapped apt…( we arent handicapped)… so that means i have no space under my kiitchen sink nor the cupboard next to it due to them removing the cupboards so a wheel chair can fit under the counters.. same with the bathroom.. nothing under the sink there… if that isnt bad enough… there is no closet space except for the reg size closet in our bedroom…. with me being a couponer… its really frustrating to have to try and find spots anyway.. this just limits me even more….. but i am creative at times on where to put things…
My biggest challenge is my master bedroom closet…..we have the wire shelving that the builder put in and it’s not adequate…..it doesn’t utilize the space that we have. We do weed our clothes out and get rid of things periodically. The bottom line is that we have space that needs to function better for us. We haven’t done anything with a new system for the same reasons that you listed.
Thanks for the awesome giveaway!
My biggest challenge is our basement. It is supposed to serve as a toy room, tv room and my home office, but it is one big disaster area.
Great giveaway!
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that looks like my closet- ugh- i hate it too.
my biggest problem though is the season closet- i have to take everything out -just to find the 1 peice of decoration i have for Easter- that kind of thing-ugh
thanks
I have a 5 month old daughter and she has more clothes than my husband and me combined! Her drawers are packed her closet is puking baby clothes and I’ve even put some in her crib that she doesn’t use yet. I need something to organize all those adorable tiny little outftits and shoes!
My organization challenge is the garage, the storage areas just don’t function like they should.
Can I say every where! I seriously need help with organizing. I am too impatient to make sure everything is “just so” I am busy and just throw things into their place!
Oh, the pictures you posted could be my closet! It looks just like yours! I have too much stuff and no organization. I can’t wait to see yur after pictures.
My biggest organizational challenge is the kids playroom. We have things EVERYWHERE…it’s always on my to-do list, it just never gets done!
My whole appartment, we still have no organizational tools. Or places to put stuff.
Oh, I can’t decide: toys or mail? Both are overwhelming for this “piler” (not filer!)!
We have a hard time with organizing the garage. I know there are so many useful storage racks and bins, but just trying to decide where to start is overwhelming.
My biggest challenge is just finding a place for everything. Some days it looks like a grenade went off in my room. LOL!!! Thanks for the awesome giveaway :)
Renee
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My husband comes home every night and dumps everything out of his pockets/in his hands on the coffee table. Receipts, lip balm, bottle caps, medicine – you name it and I’m sure I can find it on my coffee table. Then the cats jump on the table, even though we yell at them every time, and knock his stuff into the floor! I can not for the life of me keep the coffee table/living room floor cleared of clutter. Help! :)
Definantly the kids’ rooms.
I have a hard time keeping coupons, as well as any other papers organized.
Our master closet is probably the biggest challenge because it is where everything ends up that doesn’t have a “home”. The second challenge is all my scrapbooking supplies. I have tried multiple systems but just haven’t found the right combination.
My biggest challenge is to organize my closet and kids playroom
My biggest challenge area is my home office. There are random stacks of papers everywhere b/c I don’t have filing cabinets to organize them in.
My pantry needs serious help!
My biggest organizational challenge is not knowing where to start, I have way too many things and very little closet space.
My biggest challenge is my desk. Sadly, I can only blame myself on this one!
definitely would be my shoes. They end up all over the house!
my biggest organizational challenge is my son’s room. I shop garage sales and thrift stores so when I find something he can grow into at the right price i get it. I have clothes & shoes in 6 different size ranges!
The office. Four of us work here – usually not all at the same time, thankfully. Piles everywhere.
My biggest challenge is where to put shoes, or anything really. My husband and I share a small closet and it’s such a hassle finding space for everything. We don’t have space for shoes or anything else besides shirts and jeans. I would love to have space for purses too.
It’s depressing when I think of my closet. :(
My bedroom is a catch-all for random stuff in the house. Seriously needs organized.
The bathroom closet–trying to keep all the toothbrushes, razors, and other great freebie toiletries organized is an endless battle.
Probably would be the shoes and coat closet. I would like to add another closet in the laundry room, but so far hubby has vetoed it!
I seriously need help organizing my kids toys/school stuff/ crafts!! I need lots of help. LOL Surprisingly my closet is pretty good.
I have met the organizational problem, and it is I! I can’t keep anything organized! :)
Mostly papers clutter me.
We’re putting an addition on our house which meant our garage had to be emptied and we have no kitchen pantry. We’re dealing with finding homes for both groups of items in our basement.
My biggest challenge is random papers-the things that don’t easily fit anywhere-you know the offer we might do,the magazine I might subscribe to,the event we might go to,directions we’ll need in a few days,my son’s artwork everywhere,fliers from church,etc,etc,etc.
My entire house is an organizational challenge. My husband passed away and I have not done anything with his belongings. My son relocated and most of his things are are here .I clean up one week and tear down the next.
My biggest organizational challenge is finding enough storage space for all my arm-candy! What?! Like I’m the only one who’s closet has actually belched out a handbag or three! LOL! The closet’s just too small, I swear! LOL :)
My biggest challenge is our basement. We moved in Feb., but our 4 sons did not. Our basement is cram packed with our items and our 4 sons. What a challenge! By the way, our new house is smaller than our older home.
Shoes, belts, scarves & purses are my biggest organizational challenge! Where do begin to explain?
My biggest challenge is dealing with my husband. His father is a hoarder and keeps giving us stuff. Our basement is overflowing. We keep donating things but it still keeps filling up.
I buy toys and kids books at yard sales to resell on Ebay so they are all over the place–on my bedroom floor, the guest room floor and the basement.
The kitchen! Most people say it bigger then most of their bathrooms! My grandson came to visit and shook his head and laugned saying, “Gee Grandma…. I’ve never seem a kitchen that small!” My daughter’s reaction? Well, you told me is was small…. but there is nothing like “seeing” it!! Yes – the kitchen is a “challenge”!!
My biggest organizational struggle would have to be all of the toys at our house.
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My biggest organizational challenge is what to do with my clothes and my son’s toys!
We moved from a 2 bdrm townhouse with basement into an old 2 bdrm farmhouse. The basement is always damp/wet so I have lost ALL my basement storage plus the closets are TINY (some aren’t even deep enough to hold a regular hanger…how is that a closet??) there are loads of other issues too, so it is constant clutter in our house. I swear paper products are procreating in the living room & the ‘office’
I live in a tiny college apartment- there isn’t enough room for everything I have, so I am never completely organized.
The biggest challenge…trying to hide non-clothes items in the closet since we have no other storage.
My biggest organizational problem is that my son and daughter share a room and have one itty bitty closet to try and fit everything in!
My biggest challenge is the desk area: bills, coupons, filing. Thanks!
My biggest organizational challenge is my coat closet. How to store all those hats, mittens, gloves, ballcaps, scarves etc etc?
There’s not much closet space in our master bedroom. My challenge is getting everything to fit in a tidy manner. I hate rummaging through my clothes looking for a specific outfit.
Luckily, photos are not required :) I have always had a hard time organizing toiletries and cosmetics. It has something to do with accumulating tons of product over the years as a cosmetics/skincare consultant! I know it’s gross, but I still have some products from high school and let’s just say I’ve been out of high school for awhile (I just found a marykate+ashley lipgloss in a bathroom cabinet the other day, lol).
My biggest organizational challenge is my garage. We tend to use it as storage for things that we don’t want in the house. I have boxes, Halloween decorations that need to go up in the attic, no shelves, and craft supplies everywhere! I would LOVE to actually PARK in my garage again. =)
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Mine would have to be my closet, too. It’s so small & I have so much stuff. Right now it’s super cluttered.
it is a tie between our tiny closet and toy storage!
Honestly, mine is organizing our food pantry at church. I run that and sometimes there is overflow at my house because I have such a small room at the church. I’d love to be able to organize it better both here and there!
My biggest challenge is that we live in a very small old house. Which means 2 tiny closets (if you can even call them that) and no pantry, no linen closet and 6 cabinets (for both food and dishes). So we have stuff everywhere. Everytime I try to organize and go through things it just gets worse! lol
My craft room/study is terrible right now. I’ve got a bookshelf and two old filing cabinets as well as a desk in there, but the room is so tiny that everything’s just piled on top of everything. It’s so junky I haven’t even been able to set up the chair I bought from IKEA for the room back in March. I keep trying to work on it, but if the baby starts crying then I can only get a project about half done. The furniture in there just doesn’t work for the room and I definitely need something better in there for my sewing machine than my grandmother’s old end table.
Everything! My closet is a horrible mess and needs help!
My biggest challenge is my son & daughter’s closet.
My guest bedroom! It’s currently a warehouse for Christmas gifts and random items in plastic tubs that need to be donated or sold on Ebay. I need to work on it!
I don’t like to throw anything away because I know that the minute I do I will find a use for it so my organizational challenge would be to get rid of what I haven’t used in the past year so I’m not dealing with so much clutter in the closets and in the garage.
My biggest organizational challenge has to do with all of the shoes and bags that I have. They usually just get thrown into a pile on the bottom of my closet.
My biggest organizational challenge is my bookshelf. I live in one room with limited furniture, so pretty much everything goes on my bookshelf! It’s a mess
My biggest organizational challenge is actually keeping my coupons organized. I let them get piled up for way too long.
Our home office is tops on my list of must organize.
My biggest organizational challenge is my lack of cabinet/closet/storage spaces. The cabinets in the kitchen aren’t sufficient for all my necessary equipment :), so I placed a moratorium on fun new gadgets. Likewise, the closet space is minimal throughout the house. It really needs more built-ins.
My biggest organizational challenge is the forever growing paperwork and my clothing. We have moved and I have gotten rid of slit of clothes;there is still to much. And the paperwork never goes away. It would be nice if was all electronic
My husband and I do not have enough storage in our bedroom. The closets are chaotic and inevitably, we end up with clothes lying around because we don’t have enough space.
I have difficulty with all the papers that my boys bring home form school. They seem to be all over the house. I am try to keep them organized, but they seem to be all over the house.
The biggest organizational challenge I’m dealing with is my kitchen – I have very little counter/storage space, every kitchen appliance known to mankind, and a growing stockpile. At the moment I’ve got canned goods and dried pasta/rice/fruit in copy paper boxes stacked in the corner. Once I get my new dryer, I can stack it with the washing machine, which will free up part of my laundry room for shelving so I can get my disaster under control!
Ha! Biggest organizational challenge? My life! Or the pantry. Both can be pretty out of control…
My kid’s toys.
Shoes never seem to be organized in my house.
My biggest challenge would be my craft supplies. I have way to much and it needs to be organized
Tupperware in the kitchen!
Well, we’re currently living in the basement of a friend’s house. (A husband, wife and 2 kids – 3 and 4). We consist of my husband, myself, our almost 4 year old daughter and 15 month old son. Our space is VERY limited. WE have a large living area which is our “living room”, my husband and I’s bedroom and sometimes our kitchen/dining room. The kids are sharing a small bedroom. Since it’s a basement 1) there’s no closets…So we currently have bars stretched across any open tiles in the ceiling to create clothes lines. There is NO shelving. So our stuff is stacked up on top of the dresser and the VERY large pool table that is in the basement (our living room). We also have clothes piled on the pool table. There’s no “vanity” per se, for the bathroom so we have a bored stretched across the utility sink to hold our toothbrushes and soap. needless to say, that 100.00 would go a LONG way for us. We could buy some wardrobes and another dresser (the kids are sharing a dresser currently) and maybe a large toy box for their toys that just seem to end up in a pile on the floor b/c there’s no storage for them…
My biggest problem is that I have no desk so all of my ‘office’ stuff ends up on my dining room table.
My biggest organizational challenge not having any room in any of my closets. All my clothes are scattered all over my room.
The basement and garage.
This is exactly what our closet looks like! It is a DISASTER! Definately in need of something to organize it!
My biggest challenges are my closet and basement – and maybe my biggest challenge is finding a good system (then sticking to it)!
For me it is books and paperwork. With respect to books, me and hubby both did our Masters, so lots & lots of big and bulky books. As of paper, magazines and daily letters pile up on our dinner table all the time. I seriously need to organize it. Well, I’m embarrassed now.
My pantry is awful and it is also a poorly designed space to use.
I would love to have this…
Books, clothes and toys! I haven’t had a garage sale in years – we have too much stuff piling up, our attic and basement are overwhelmed! Our kids get so much, it wasn’t like this when I was growing up! Thanks for the chance to win this awesome prize!
I need help organizing my bathroom closet (medicines, towels, travel items, etc all on white shelving with those rails that have gaps between them so stuff gets stuck and falls through!).
My mudroom never seems to stay organized.