Lindsay Ballard, Author at Makely

I spend a lot of time thinking about paint. If I want to be honest, I probably spend more time thinking about it than is healthy. Whether you send me an email or are a random stranger at Home Depot, I’m always happy to pass along my advice or opinion.

If you are heading to the SNAP! Conference for creative bloggers in Salt Lake City next week, you’ll have the opportunity to hear it from the horse’s mouth. My friend Diane from In My Own Style and I are leading a panel on everything you ever wanted to know about paint. We’ll share with you our experiences (the good and the bad) with different products and take questions from the audience about personal projects. Our panel is at 3:00 on Friday. If you will be at SNAP, a) let me know and b) PLEASE come meet me! I promise I’m really nice and approachable, and I’ll probably end up saying something stupid and unedited that you can laugh about. That’s usually how it happens, anyway.

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I’m going to publicly admit that the big project of 2013 has been put on hold for a bit. I’m sad – super sad, y’all – but I’ve decided that I want to put new flooring in the entire downstairs instead of just some of it. That means I need to save more money so that we can get started. I’m being a grown up about it and waiting until I have enough money to get what I really want. This is progress, people!

So while I wait, I’m going to move on to a much more inexpensive room – our master closet! In all actuality, our closet functions perfectly fine. We have plenty of hanging space and plenty of shelving, so I don’t need to reinvent the wheel. But, it’s very basic – and very builder’s grade. It definitely lacks the personality and oompf of the rest of the house.

I’ve been pinning some dream closets that have features I’d like to have in my own closet. I thought I’d share some of my favorites with you.

This is how I organize my closet now – like garments hung together and sorted by color. I think it’s a sickness, but I have to have my closet organized from light to dark. And you people who throw your clothes on the floor? Does not compute. I had a college roommate who would hang her clothes inside out on the hangers if if that’s how they came out of the dryer. Before seeing that, it had never occurred to me that someone might do that. GASP! College was a learning experience.

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Oh, SNAP! I’ve Got Paint on the Brain

Closet Crushin’