karla and family ELFA!

I first met Karla right as her and her family were moving into this new loft. She needed someone to install Elfa shelving and help create workable storage for many areas in the loft. I'm not going to show everything (cuz it would be boring and redundant), but I wanted to post a few examples of Elfa shelving (and what I've done with it). It's by no means my favorite subject to work with. I dont find it extremely pleasing to look at... etc.



But, I do think that of all the choices in storage systems, it's the best (for the money) that I know of. It's fairly quick and painless to put up, it does have a basically nice clean look to it, its durable, easily changeable, the Container store has always been helpful, anytime I have called with any questions... and I believe a lot of the Elfa shelving components can be returned if not needed....
That said... I spent a few days at Karla's screwing Elfa hangers to the walls. She had alot of Elfa stuff from her previous living space, so the plan was to try and reuse as much of it as possible. Some of the pictures I'm showing I got a bit more creative, to make the shelving work better in the new space...



This is May's room. Karla's daughter. We tore out the old stuff in the room and installed Elfa for a lot of the shelving, and desks. I customized some of the shelving to make it work better in this situation. Her room ended up looking beautiful.