This is one of many Ikea cabinets George purchased back in August. We use them as a custom entertainment center, plus we have a few extras.
Upon realizing we had extras, I quickly worked to formulate the best way to use them. This particular cabinet is sitting in our front "entry". Which really is not an entry by any means, but it is where the front door is located and you don't immediately run into the couch -- so I suppose it's an entry in it's own right.
In order to better manage all the various games and puzzles the kids have -- I commissioned this cabinet to house them. But I've found, that even though the games and coloring books and puzzles are in there -- that it's a great location to stash other random things the kids bring downstairs from their bedrooms.
As I do quick little clean-ups around the house I'll find at least a few little kid tidbits that I'm too lazy to run upstairs and properly put away. And so I'll stash them in this cabinet by the front door.
Which means that instead of the well organized game cabinet I'd intended, it actually looks like this:
And in fact, actually doesn't look nearly as bad as it did before the kids took things out earlier this morning to play with. Like Lorelei's stuffed kitten that daddy got her from Vegas. Or her little Barbie toy. Or Caleb's DS that I tossed in their last night.I have to say though, it is a handy little cabinet. And some day, when I become Martha Stewart's evil twin, it won't look like this.