We live in a little 1,000 sq ft house that was built in 1929, and we love it with our whole hearts. But let me tell you, in the last four years as we've added two kids to our family, there are moments when it feels so small. T.J. and I will lock eyes, while both kids are crying, there's cat barf on the floor, laundry is everywhere, we are out of iced coffee and be like "WE NEED MORE SPACE AHHHHH!" It was moments like that one that led us to finally, after almost 10 years of living in our house, do something about our unused basement.

Thanks to a partnership with Rubbermaid® FastTrack® Closet™ and Lowes, we kicked things into gear to give ourselves a much-needed laundry room!

The first step was to take everything out of the basement, which was a lot of stuff. Bins of high school and childhood memories (aka: T.J.'s wrestling medals), holiday decorations and honestly, a lot of junk we didn't need to be holding onto anymore!

Here is a before photo just to show you how scary the basement actually was. Way back there in the far corner, you can see our dryer!