Featured Hoarder or storer?

Hi,
Thanks for the ideas but remember they are 8 Feet tall and weight 200lbs each. When I moved from Brooklyn to NJ in 1995 I had three complete fireplace screens, tools and andirons since I was not sure what style house I was going to buy. Of all the houses I looked at the one I bought had NO Fireplace and no place to put one since all the walls had multiple windows and doors. I held on to one set since I was moving in here, Again no fireplace. These columns are made to hold up ceilings and roofs. I will probably use them to hold up my porch roof.
Silver, they are Doric not Ionian and wonderful BUT they do not fit in any room and weight a freaking ton. I have several smaller columns that I use for a lot of things but moving these will take 2 big strapping lads. Getting them in the trunk of the car took three people and two off duty policemen to unlo
I get rid of one thing and two appears in its place.
greg

 

May I suggest a pergola?

 

Doing a flick back through some of the many rooms shown (thanks for the interest) I spot a common theme.
In most cases, apart from basements or cellars, they show signs of all having started out as just rooms with the usual roomy stuff, and then they just sort of growed.

This is part of the solution I am working on.



For a couple of years I have been taking my stuff to antiques fairs and flea markets in these handy plastic boxes in about three shapes and sizes to optimise fitting them in the car exactly filling the available space.
I notice that much of the impression of hopeless clutter is due to the ubiquitous cardboard box in all stages of decrepitude.

The plastic boxes are pretty cheap, and usually discounted if you buy 20 or so, and can be stored empty inside one another (it's great to come back from an antique fair with less than half the stuff you went out with and all the empty boxes stacked together so they almost vanish) and it's pretty easy to colour code them by lid or with a sticky label--my system is 'car boot stuff' (just barely above 'chuck it'), Flea market, (better, more interesting, sellable very cheap, owes me nothing, etc) and stuff earmarked for antiques fair only.
Survivors of an antique fair get downgraded to flea market, survivors of that get downgraded to car boot, nothing has yet made it to 'dump' though some should.

Unless you are storing gold bricks, they are pretty strong and can be stacked a lot higher than cardboard boxes without exploding or crushing the lower layers.

The process of moving stuff from those cardboard boxes to the containers is a good chance to filter some of into a total discard box, and for motivation, the chance of a worthwhile find, assuming that you have more or less forgotten what was there or possibly have learned more about what you did not recognise you had while it has been gathering dust.

Rally to the cause, good hoarders and storers, the worst that can happen is that for a small effort, you can hoard or store twice as much stuff. All that space previously wasted on mere air can now become solid with good stuff!

 

Hi Silver,
In my development not allowed to add any structures even temporary. If you have a porch you can enclose it and then add a patio but no roof or fence or even a Rubbermaid Shed. The best is NO veggie or fruit garden in the front of the house. 90% of my neighbors are Italian and they want the tomatoes in the front but no dice. In fact one guy sold and moved out for that reason.
greg

 

a Rubbermaid Shed

I'm not going to look up what that might really be. My imagination is enough.

 

Af.
Been doing that for years. I use the large boxes for storage and have large labels of what stuff in it them. I heard one person say when they were walking by and my garage door was open. "He must have OCD". I don't.
greg

 

Gregsglass, serious question: Are small "ornamental" (but still fruit-bearing) trees/shrubs allowed to be planted in the front yards?

 

Well, I've just had time to catch up on this thread. Skimmed rather than read everything.
Greg you are too funny!

S_I_S - I wish my "collection" looked as nicely displayed as yours. I'm afraid I am in between AF and Book (being more toward Book).

LIL It was the St. Francis Hotel in SF. I think they still wash the coins.
http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201311291630/e

And for all the stupid things that we have added to our environment - wireless is the one that will eventually kill us. It has killed off a major portion of the bee population. Which means less food will be pollinated, which means more manufactured food with additives, or genetically engineered food. We just don't seem to learn.

 

I was never a hoarder but loved collections,especially animals. There was a time when I collected anything birds,then horse nic naks...Then I got into selling and bought too much. I had also planned at one time in my life to open a second hand store but the real estate baloon killed that. Here is my bedroom GASP! I keep my boxes and packing materials in there too so hopefully my smoking in the other part of the house does not foul them.



My poor BF can't get to his side of the closet..yet.so I hang his clothes here.

 

Aside from my 70+ Rubbermaid containers full of stuff I do store some stuff in any old cupboard I can find. I pray the Big One does not shake my house so bad that everything is shattered.

I just learned to make the pics small and into a scroll

 

Shiloh, please tell me a bit about that gorgeous red and white plate in the last photo.

 

Thats a plate made by Vernon Kilns Calif. Don Blanding a poet,illustrator designed this and other ware for them.

https://www.google.com/search?q=Ver...IMImUoQSfuoGABg&ved=0CB8Qsxg&biw=1024&bih=625

 

Greg, can the columns sit on your patio as long as there's no roof? They might look cool as vertical sculptures with vines winding up them.

 

Hi,
I will try and "catch up".
AF, I knew the minute I typed Rubbermaid Shed you would leap out of the gutter.
Pat, no fruit trees in front, the lawn service would have a mess. No lawn or patio decorations higher than 30". You can plant around your house on the sides out 30" and the back since most people have patios they use containers. Due to the plumbing for the irragation you have to keep the back open. However I back up to the woods so I carved out a setting for sitting and planting flowers out there.
I really can not complain about rules and regulations since I checked them out before I bought the house. I can not believe the people who buy and then find out about the dos and donts. It is an adult 55 and older community and one woman bought her house and planned on adopting three babies. She was so shocked when she found out you can not raise children there. Our's is the smallest adult community in this area only 380 houses. Most of them are 14 thousand and up. They have cookie cutter houses and most are semiattached. They look like garbage
In ours we have 8 basic models and some have different roof lines and no two idential houses next to each other. Just about everyone has one or two trees in the front so the landscaping is nice. I have a pink cherry tree (no fruit). It was always my nightmare to live in a "plastic" house in an old folks community. Here I do feel like it is a nightmare, in fact I LOVE it.
greg

 

you would leap out of the gutter.

It's my spiritual home. I live in the gutter but look up at the stars.

Nope, it's the underside of the overpass.

 

Hmm, Greg, how 'bout as a horizontal edging in front of plants? Or would that count as a "fence"?

 

I still like my idea. heehee

 

Hi Pat,
No fence.
Messi, I do not want to get typecast. Pregnant Cinderella still drives the kids looney.
If they were square I would use them in my Arts and Crafts room. I love them being Doric or if you are Italian Tuscany. To buy them new is over 400 hundred each. Having to pay a dollar for two was too good to pass up. Perhaps I'll cut a hole in one to insert my mailbox. You people have given me so many wonderful ideas.
greg

 

Final update on the room I started to clear..Still some bits lurking in the far corner they are just cowering, they know their time has come. And I did find a few useful things in all the junk, long forgotten about.

 

Well, I am impressed!