One of my favorite details in our bathroom is the wood towel hooks. I purchased these wood dowels over a year ago at the Indie Arts & Vintage Marketplace in Indianapolis. However, you could purchase similar wood dowels like this to create your own towel hooks. You’ll need a dowel screw like one of these …
Organization Ideas and Projects
Awhile back, I picked up some bamboo trays from a consignment store {$3 each} — for exactly this purpose. When I organized my office, I stored the paper in the blue bin shown below. However, storing printer paper upright can cause it to bend. Even a slight curvature can affect how easily the paper will …
Our Master Bedroom has a pretty small closet — it is only 2′ deep and 4.5′ wide. When we moved in, there was a single clothing rod and one shelf. Within a few months we purchased some pieces of Closetmaid from Lowes and installed a double clothing rod system. This was a HUGE improvement and …
I love to re-purpose items for organization. If you saw my post on Monday, you know I’ve already been chatting about that topic this week. Here is another affordable option for storage, that you can find at your local dollar store. Mike and I were shopping in the dollar store for some Vacation Bible School …
Our church had a Yard Sale fundraiser and I came home with this small dresser. It’s low height makes it perfect as a side table. Yes, a dresser can be a side table! {A dresser is one of the best pieces of furniture you can buy, see some more examples in this post.} In fact, …
We had several goals when we started working on the bathroom renovation… increase from one to two sinks, get rid of the wallpaper and replace the peeling linoleum floors… to name a few. However, there is another goal that is always on my “to do” list and that is to increase storage. In the end, …
We did it! Eight full weeks of organizing our homes. I loved this series. It has really helped me get our home organized in smart, effective ways. So, to wrap it all up, we’ve written this gigantic post with all of the organizing solutions we’ve shared over the last 8 weeks and links to every.single.post. …
One of the things I dreaded about moving from our old home was losing all of the organizational systems we had set up there. Obviously, some of those systems would transfer over to our new house; but not all. Many of those systems were based on the layout of our home, the size of a …
Welcome to our very last week of the 8-Week Organizing Challenge! As Lora mentioned yesterday, our topic for the last week is organizing mail and paper clutter. Today I’m going to share with you some ideas for ways that you can organize all those magazines, bills, and important papers that come into your home. First …
We have been working on multiple organizational projects this past week… still trying to get boxes unpacked here in our new home, but we’ve made a lot of progress! This organizing challenge has been great for me because it has kept me focused on getting spaces fully organized and not just so-so in the meantime …
How is everyone doing with organizing their laundry rooms? If you missed Lora’s post from yesterday, go check it out, it’s full of great ideas! Today I’m going to share how I’ve organized my small laundry area. Here is what it looks like: To keep items organized, I use an IKEA white metal shelf (similar) …
This week our organizing challenge is the laundry room. I’ve already got started collecting a few items for our laundry closet — including a plan to sort out some of the items that are already sitting in that space. I’ll share more about it in a few days; but for today I’m going to share …
We are getting close to the end of our 8-Week Organizing challenge — only 2 weeks left! How have you been doing? I’ll be honest, last week was a tough project for me! You’d think that painting and organizing a hall closet or pantry would be a bigger undertaking, but I think photo organization can …
Lora and I both made a little progress on our bathrooms last week. I organized my linens and Lora shared some simple organizational tips that will work in her old and new bathroom. How did you do in your bathrooms? Are you ready for another week of organizing? This week in our 8-Week Organizing Challenge, …
Have you been working on organizing the bathroom this week? It’s hard to believe but we are already over halfway done with the 8-Week Organizing Challenge! Those of you who’ve been around a bit may remember our home tour and that the upstairs bathroom is going to be our first major project in the new …