Organizing Your Whole Home

Organizing Your Whole Home

Tips and ideas for organizing your whole home: a Ten Week Organizing Challenge to create an efficient and functional home for a busy family.  Have you had organizing on the brain lately? I must confess that I did some organizing right after Christmas but haven’t had much of a chance to think about it again…

Playroom Organization

Playroom Organization

Playroom organization ideas for a duel function playroom and family room space.  Hello friends! It is now Week 8 of the Ten Week Organizing Challenge and our entire upstairs has been purged and organized. This includes the bathroom, both boys’ bedrooms, and now, as of this week, our playroom/family room. I’m pretty thrilled to know…

Bedroom Organization Ideas

Bedroom Organization Ideas

How to organize your primary bedroom and walk-in closet with these tips and bedroom organization ideas.  If you’ve been following along for a while, then you know I’m currently tackling my TEN WEEK ORGANIZING CHALLENGE again. This time I’m organizing our entire new build home. So far I’ve worked through the first five weeks of…

Linen Closet Organization

Linen Closet Organization

How to organize your linen closet to make it a functional and pretty space in a few simple steps with tips for linen closet organization.  It’s Week Five! We are halfway through the 10 Week Organizing Challenge! Hopefully some parts of your home are feeling really good to be in, use, and function in again…

How to Organize Bathroom Cabinets

How to Organize Bathroom Cabinets

The bathroom is one of the most frequently used spaces in our home; get your bathroom cabinets organized with these ideas and tips and make your daily routine that much more efficient. The bathroom… One of the most highly used spaces in our homes, but one that can often become overlooked when it comes to…

Laundry Room Organization

Laundry Room Organization

How to organize your laundry room and mudroom so that everything you need has a home within your home.  Welcome to Week Three of the Ten Week Organizing Challenge!  You can read all the details about this challenge in my introductory post here.  So far in this organization challenge we have dealt with paper clutter and…

Seven Simple Steps to Completely Organize Your Kitchen

Seven Simple Steps to Completely Organize Your Kitchen

Seven steps for organizing your entire kitchen and setting up a functional organization system for your kitchen and pantry. Welcome to Week Two of the Ten Week Organizing Challenge! You can read all the details about this challenge in my introductory post here. Last week we tackled our paper clutter and setup a family command…

Free Printable Weekly Planner

Free Printable Weekly Planner

This free printable weekly planner is a great way to keep track of all the things going on in your busy life during the week.  This year has been our busiest on a day to day basis in many ways. The boys both have multiple sports and activities scheduled each week and, along with my…

The Ten Week Organizing Challenge

The Ten Week Organizing Challenge

Get your home in order with my ten week organizing challenge. More than just decluttering and purging, this challenge helps you setup organizing systems that work. Since moving into our home a few months back I don’t feel that we’ve ever gotten truly organized. Basically we moved in before everything was finished (including the kitchen),…

How to Organize a Small Reach-in Closet for Multi-Purpose Storage

How to Organize a Small Reach-in Closet for Multi-Purpose Storage

Today I’m sharing five tips for organizing a small reach-in closet for multi-purpose storage. Having recently moved into our lake cabin for the next several months as we build a new house from scratch we’ve had to downsize and reorganize many parts of our home and lives in order to make things functional in a…

How to Organize Your Bathroom (even without much storage space!)

How to Organize Your Bathroom (even without much storage space!)

Today I’m sharing how to get your bathroom(s) organized even if you don’t have very much storage space. Welcome to Week four of the 10 Week Organizing Challenge! This week we are tackling the bathrooms.  When we moved into this house late in the fall of 2019 we didn’t unpack everything as we knew we…

How to Organize Your Kitchen and Pantry in 6 Simple Steps

How to Organize Your Kitchen and Pantry in 6 Simple Steps

Today I’m sharing how to completely organize your kitchen including your pantry with 3 simple and easy steps to an organized kitchen as part of the 10 Week Organizing Challenge  Welcome to Week Two of the 10 Week Organizing Challenge.  This week we are tackling the kitchen! There is no doubt about it.  Organizing your kitchen…

DIY an Organized Closet {big or small!} with the Ikea PAX Wardrobe System

DIY an Organized Closet {big or small!} with the Ikea PAX Wardrobe System

Today I am sharing a collection of ideas for using the Ikea PAX wardrobe system to create a highly functional and efficient clothing storage and closet organization system in your home. Closets. Who would have known that they are such a big deal? We tend to think of our closet space as simply a given…

Making Sense of Ikea PAX: How to Choose the Right PAX Configuration for Your Space

Making Sense of Ikea PAX: How to Choose the Right PAX Configuration for Your Space

It’s no secret around here that we love ourselves a little PAX. And with the new year upon us and so many people working on getting and staying organized, I’ve had a lot of reader questions and emails lately about the Ikea PAX units that we installed in our old house. The main issue seems…

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Tips, Tricks & Printables to Help You Get Organized for the Holidays

Today I’m sharing some awesome posts full of tips, tricks, and printables to help you get totally organized for the holiday season this year. I am honestly having a hard time believing that it’s a week into November here people. The holidays are just around the corner and I have not thought about them or…

Get Organized for Christmas with Free Printable Holiday Planners

Get Organized for Christmas with Free Printable Holiday Planners

It’s officially November, friends! Halloween is over and for my US friends, Thanksgiving is drawing near. We’ve already had our Thanksgiving in Canada, so I’m ready to launch myself fully into Christmas planning! I’ve shared in my Friday posts recently how I want to get organized ahead of time this year so that I can…

Pretty & Functional Small Entry Ways

Pretty & Functional Small Entry Ways

Here are some creative ways to add pretty and functional to small entry ways in your home. Pretty is great. Everyone loves a beautifully decorated space; large or small. Of course huge grand foyers can be beautiful, inviting, and create that perfect welcome for family and guests. But small entry ways pose their their own…

25 Fab Ideas for Organizing Playrooms & Kid’s Spaces

25 Fab Ideas for Organizing Playrooms & Kid’s Spaces

I am sharing 25 of the best ideas for organizing your kid’s playroom decor and space! Good morning friends, and welcome back for another week of my ten week organizing home challenge! We are nearly at the end of the challenge; so far I’ve tackled paperwork/the command center, the kitchen, bathrooms, laundry room, mud room,…

Creative, Thrifty, & Small Space Craft Room Organization Ideas

Creative, Thrifty, & Small Space Craft Room Organization Ideas

Hello my organizing challenge friends. Today I’m here to share all kinds of Creative, Thrifty, & Small Space Craft Room Organization Ideas with you! I hope that you didn’t think I’d forgotten about you with all the spring posts I’ve been sharing the past few days {you can check out our spring living room here}! I…

Five Steps to a Super Organized Small Space Mud Room or Entry

Five Steps to a Super Organized Small Space Mud Room or Entry

It’s been snowing around here again. It started on Friday and snowed on an off throughout the weekend. And snow always leads to all kinds of outdoor fun… and requires a whole extra assortment of outdoor gear. Snow makes me thrilled to have a “mud room”, however tiny it is, to deal with all that gear….

30+ Organized Inspiring Small Mud Rooms & Entry Areas

30+ Organized Inspiring Small Mud Rooms & Entry Areas

I have put together a list with pictures of inspiring small mud room and small entry ways! Okay, you guys, I have to admit it. I’m kind of obsessed with mud rooms. I’m talkin’ about dreamy, huge, beautiful, white panelled mudrooms full of custom built perfectly organized cabinetry. So, in other words, I’m obsessed with a…

How to Completely Organize Your Kitchen {Week Two Organizing Challenge}

How to Completely Organize Your Kitchen {Week Two Organizing Challenge}

Good morning, friends! I’m pretty excited about today’s post. Because I’m seriously thrilled with how amazingly clean and organized our kitchen feels after completing this week’s challenge. I LUUUUUV it. And I think you’re gonna love these before and afters, too! Have you been following along with my 10 week organizing challenge? Last week I…

How to Organize Paper Clutter {Organizing Challenge Week One}

How to Organize Paper Clutter {Organizing Challenge Week One}

Are you ready to tackle some serious home organization with me? Last week I shared my 10 week challenge and plan for organizing your entire house. In this series we will be tackling these areas: Welcome to WEEK ONE! I’m super excited about this week  because paper clutter is one of those things that weighs on…

Small Walk-in Closet Makeover Reveal {with Ikea Pax & Removable Wallpaper}

Small Walk-in Closet Makeover Reveal {with Ikea Pax & Removable Wallpaper}

When I started out with the One Room Challenge six weeks ago, I originally thought that we would focus on the closet. If you had a chance to check out our bedroom makeover reveal the other day; you may have noticed that the project kind of snowballed to include pretty much our entire bedroom… But…

6 DIY Shelving Solutions

6 DIY Shelving Solutions

If you have organizational problems then these 6 do it yourself shelving solutions are for you! One of  my biggest goals this year is to get super organized before the back to school rush begins again. I’m hoping to tackle our linen closet, coat closet, and our master bedroom closet over the course of the summer…

Pantry Makeover: Free Printable Weekly Meal Planner and Shopping List Planner

Pantry Makeover: Free Printable Weekly Meal Planner and Shopping List Planner

I am sharing my free printable weekly meal planner to make shopping for groceries easier! Grocery Shopping. Meal Planning. They are as much a never-ending chore as laundry seems to be. I have to admit that they aren’t my favourite tasks, but when I don’t stay on top of them it feels like the world…

Real World Organizing: How to Keep Your House Tidy {with kids, pets, jobs, & a life}

Real World Organizing: How to Keep Your House Tidy {with kids, pets, jobs, & a life}

This post has been niggling at me for a long time. Living in my brain… slowly forming itself into being. For months now. It’s tough to write about this topic because, frankly, I’m not perfect at it. I don’t have a “completely-purged-organized-everything-in-adorably-labelled-baskets-and-matching-storage-containers” home. But you know what? It’s pretty good around here. It’s definitely organized….

Wrapping Up My Sparking Joy Journey {My Honest Review of the KonMarMethod}

Wrapping Up My Sparking Joy Journey {My Honest Review of the KonMarMethod}

Good morning! If you have been following along for the past several Sundays then you know that I have been slowly working my way through our home decluttering and attempting to follow Marie Kondo’s method as outlined in her book “the life-changing magic of tidying up”…  I’m thrilled to be in cahoots with these bloggers…

15 Fantastic Ideas for Organizing and Storing Children’s School Work

15 Fantastic Ideas for Organizing and Storing Children’s School Work

I have put together 15 of the best ideas for storing and organizing your children’s school work. If you are a regular reader then you may have seen my big confession a couple of weeks ago. About the disorganization. And mess…. And the difficulty I am encountering with purging and organizing and storing children’s school…

Purging Paperwork & Tweaking Our Command Center Closet

Purging Paperwork & Tweaking Our Command Center Closet

Good morning! I’m pretty excited about today’s topic! Purging Paperwork!! If you have been following along for the past four Sundays, then you know that I am part of a group of fabulous bloggers who are gradually working their way through their homes {purging and organizing}; following the Marie Kondo Method as outlined in her…

#Sparking Joy: Tips for Purging Your Closet & How to Host a Clothing Exchange

#Sparking Joy: Tips for Purging Your Closet & How to Host a Clothing Exchange

I am sharing some tips for how to purge and organize your closet, plus host a clothing exchange. Good morning! Ready to get organized this week? You might remember from last Sunday that I have started an organizing journey along with some of my blogging friends. We are following the Marie Kondo Method as outlined…

DIY Pallet Sign Menu Board

DIY Pallet Sign Menu Board

Here is my DIY pallet sign menu board that keeps the family in the loop for our weekly meals! It’s been a busy hectic summer. Lots of renovating. Remember that big house reno I shared about way back when? Ya. That. I have SO.MUCH.TO.SHARE! Once I can find the time to sit down and get…

Learn to Love Packing Lunches with Rubbermaid LunchBlox {Seriously!}

Learn to Love Packing Lunches with Rubbermaid LunchBlox {Seriously!}

Are there any chores that you really dread? Daily tasks that you CAN. NOT. STAND…repeating day after day after day. Packing lunches used to be that chore for me. Well, that, and laundry. I pretty much can’t stand putting away laundry, either. I’m not sure what it was about packing lunches. Probably that it HAD…

Get Organized in a Small Space with a Cloffice {Office Closet}

Get Organized in a Small Space with a Cloffice {Office Closet}

Often getting organized and making your life more functional comes down to making the most of every inch of space available to you. That, and purging. Getting rid of stuff you don’t need is always crazy satisfying… And once the purge is done, finding a space for all the important stuff is so much easier….

Command Central Station {Getting Organized with a Command Center in a Closet}

Command Central Station {Getting Organized with a Command Center in a Closet}

Are you in full-on organizing mode these days? Does the onset of January inspire you to make changes and simplify your life? It seems to for me… Maybe it is something about cleaning up and purging after all the busyness and excess of the holiday season. It’s like putting your house on a diet. Getting…

DIY Decorative Clipboards using Wrapping Paper {& Season in a Trunk Giveaway!}

DIY Decorative Clipboards using Wrapping Paper {& Season in a Trunk Giveaway!}

This fall is about getting organized. Back to school season always motivates me to purge and organize. And this year, I want to come up with a system to keep up with the crazy daily onslaught of paperwork. For reals this time. Actually, I don’t want to just keep up with it. I want to MASTER…

20 Fabulous Command Centers to Get Your Life Completely Organized

20 Fabulous Command Centers to Get Your Life Completely Organized

It’s time to get organized in your life and these 20 amazing command centers provide just the right inspiration! Back to school is nearly upon us. This weekend is the Labour Day weekend…kind of the unofficial “last” weekend of summer around these parts of the world. Kids will be piling into their brand new skinny…

Awesome Linen Closet Organization!!

Awesome Linen Closet Organization!!

I love an organized closet. A few years ago my old neighbour told me that she didn’t like to waste her time doing things like organizing closets. I pretended that I agreed. Pretended that I would rather be outside enjoying the sunshine instead of inside itemizing and labeling and organizing my closets. Truth be told, I…

One Bliss – fully Flowered Chalk Painted Stencilled Filing Cabinet

One Bliss – fully Flowered Chalk Painted Stencilled Filing Cabinet

Today I can’t wait to share a beautiful little furniture transformation: a Chalk Painted Stencilled Filing Cabinet. But before I start, I have something to admit. Ya, um….the truth is we kind of started a whole new project around here. If you are a regular reader you may be thinking “but you still haven’t finished your…

15 Fabulous Organizing Ideas for Your Whole House {DIY Challenge Projects and Features}

15 Fabulous Organizing Ideas for Your Whole House {DIY Challenge Projects and Features}

 Are you in organization mode these days?  Are you trying to put some systems in place to make your life a little smoother and more relaxed?  I know I am… so I was super inspired by all the amazing ideas shared recently at the Get Your DIY On Challenge: Organizing Ideas.  Here are some of our favourites in case you may have missed one of these incredible organizing projects or ideas…

 

Some Serious Closet Organization – and a $325 Home Goods and Lallitara Tote Giveaway

Some Serious Closet Organization – and a $325 Home Goods and Lallitara Tote Giveaway

Hello everyone!  I hope you had a great weekend.  Mine was amazing… well if you consider cleaning out your closet amazing.  I must admit it is a job I put off but once I finally got going on it on Saturday I managed to shed a quick 50 pounds of clothing in only a few hours.  My purge resulted in a wardrobe reduction of about 50% – I went from two full dressers and two closet rows full of clothing down to one dresser and one closet row!  What a satisfying few hours.  I wish there was a diet plan out there that could provide the same speedy results.

 Now that the clothing has been purged it is time to come up with some new organizing solutions… so I thought I would share some inspiring closet organizing ideas with you today.

Getting Organized with a Vintage Tool Box Charging Station

Getting Organized with a Vintage Tool Box Charging Station

Today I can’t wait to show you our new Vintage Toolbox Charging Station. It is the answer to my dreams. Or at least is a remedy to one of my organizational nightmares. Do you have technology-charging clutter issues? Up until recently, we had some serious issues. Like… phones and tablets strewn across our kitchen counter as I tried to…

Linen Closet Simple Stenciled Sign Tutorial: Over at The Cards We Drew

Linen Closet Simple Stenciled Sign Tutorial: Over at The Cards We Drew

Come see my simple stenciled sign tutorial for my linen closet! Today I am over at The Cards We Drew  with a guest post about how I made that simple wooden sign that I showed you during my linen closet rescue mission a few weeks ago. It is a really quick project to add a little interest to your closet…