Mudroom Sneak Peek #2 and Number Tag Decisions

A few months back I shared with you my initial ideas about creating a "mudroom"

in the entranceway to our family room. Originally we used this wooden 3-section 

coat locker.

  

It served it's purpose for many years for the kids' coats, back packs, winter

gear, etc. But with the arrival of a new couch it was time to make some

changes. You know the drill: one new thing leads to another and so on.

So, out with the lockers and in with a different storage unit that the whole family

can use. It's not new to us, but it's new in this room. It's previous life was as a

wall unit in the kids' playroom in the basement. As much as I loved it down there,

it really wasn't seeing much use so it seemed the perfect piece for relocation.

I also looked all over for baskets or wire bins to put in the cubbies of this storage

 unit, but I just haven't found anything I like as much as some baskets and burlap

buckets I already have. On that note, I'm now trying to decide which of the two

types of number tags to use on the baskets. One type of tag is a cardboard

chalkboard tag that I stenciled the numbers on, and the other tags are

preprinted paper tags from Ikea. 

I'm sharing two examples of each.

You decide.

Chalkboard tag

or

 Paper tag

   and

Chalkboard tag

or

Paper tag

The chalkboard tags were 4 for $1.00 at Target, and the Ikea paper tags (that I

used as Christmas ornaments) were very inexpensive as well. I really do like

them both, but I think I've decided on my favorite after working on this post.

That, however, shall remain a secret, as will the full details of the transformation

until I do the final reveal.   

Which ones would YOU choose?

Accessories are also coming together.

I still have to work on the opposite wall where Mr. CBD has just hung a refurbished

old mirror-turned-coat-rack underneath which we placed my DIY painted storage bench.

The pieces taken together as a whole really make a mod vintage mix that I'm coming

to appreciate and enjoy. But details are still being worked out, so stay tuned.

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