when i have an organizational challenge, i don’t get frustrated. i get excited about researching a solution to solve the problem. my recent challenge was in our laundry room and last week i discovered an easy answer.

our laundry room has great cabinets to hide away supplies. among them, there is a tall cabinet intended for items like mops, an upright vacuum and an ironing board…

the problem was either our ironing board is not a standard size (too tall) or the cabinet wasn’t built to accommodate the length of a collapsed ironing board. not sure which was the issue, but bottom line was in order to get the ironing board into this cabinet, it had to be placed on a slant.

that was annoying because…

1. the contents looked awful when i opened the cabinet doors,

2. in order to get out the ironing board (or anything else, for that matter) i had to remove several items,

3. the slanted ironing board took up a lot more room because of it’s sitting position. what a waste of precious space!

and

4. when i know how un-organized the inside of a cabinet is, it gets under my skin. even though the cabinet is closed, *i* still know what it looks like.

and because getting that ironing board out was such a drag, i wasn’t apt to do much ironing. when it’s not convenient to access, why bother – right?

to solve the immediate issue, i moved the ironing board to a corner of our laundry room. removing it at least allowed the rest of the items in this cabinet to breathe….

then i began my search for solutions to solve the problem. there was no shortage of organizer ideas to be found on amazon or the container store’s website. but i ended up finding my answer while browsing the aisles of bed, bath & beyond…

the board and iron fit great behind our laundry room door…

the over the door hook is the right size for our door thickness and it has a low-profile. meaning, it’s barely noticeable from the other side…especially when closed…