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So Little Time, So Little Space

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With the pace of the world rarely slowing from light speed, routines and efficiency have never been more important. As the starting and ending point of our day, fewer places carry as big a burden as the home. If cluttered and disorganized, you may be squandering time that could be spent elsewhere. Closet organizers can give you more control over how your storage systems look and operate, ensuring that your routine is as streamlined and efficient as possible.

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A Custom Feel That You’ll Appreciate

Besides contributing to the function of your home, closet organizers can add bursts of style to any area, giving you custom closets that are easily usable and contribute to the aesthetic of the room.
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Accessories for Spatial Freedom

Inefficient closet layouts contribute to disorganization in the home by wasting space that could be used for storage. In a bedroom closet, rarely is the height used to its full potential for fear of items being too high to access easily. Using a combination of added shelves or hooks, space that may have been made unusable by a traditional layout becomes accessible space, adding a new dimension to your closet’s storing potential.
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Any Space Can Benefit

Closets go by many different aliases around the home. One of the many benefits of closet organizers is their versatility–which can be seen in their success in many areas. Living room nooks, kitchen pantries, craft spaces and family room areas can all be upgraded. Give everything a place to be in your home!

 

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Your Home Running Smoothly

Closet organizers that are customized to unique spaces can help keep your home moving on an efficient track. With the time you’ll save, you can take a minute to relax and catch up on important things like a week’s worth of shows on your DVR. 😉
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Laundry Room: Three Projects Under $5

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This is the last of the laundry room series. I have three easy projects done for under $5!
Painted Bottles
First, see those bottles in the right corner? Painted. The bluish one was a glass chili sauce bottle with which I used latex paint. The white one is a plastic milk bottle with which I used acrylic. Just pour the paint in, slowly rotate the bottles so the paint coats the entire inside and rotate to rest on a different side every 15 minutes or so for the first hour and a half so the paint doesn’t all slide down to one side. I planned to have a bigger collection, but am still on the search for shapes I love.
Total cost: FREE everything on hand
In this before pic, you can see the clear milk bottle as well as the sea foam thrift store tissue holder we used for our next project…

Fabric Softener Cover

There is something about a bright red box that does not excite me in my new room. The fabric softener sheets needed a new home. Enter the $1 tissue holder, a can of brown spray paint, Martha Stewart Arabesque stencil and white acrylic paint and bam. Lovely new home for my static fighting heroes.
Total Cost: $1 for tissue holder, everything else on hand
Hook Board with Buckets

I wanted a place to house all those odds and ends like buttons, coins and other pocket contents that inevitably end up strewn about the counter. Garage sale board+few coats of white acrylic paint+sanding edges+spray painted Valentine buckets from Target $ section=clutter elimination.
Total cost: $4 ($2 buckets, $2 board, everything else on hand)

Isn’t this fun? Odds and ends are our friends.
Click for the full DIY laundry room tour or to see how to stencil patterns.
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Lunch Menu

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As a continued organization effort, I decided to make a monthly lunch menu. I was sick of standing in front of the fridge wondering what to serve up to the munchkins or worse asking what they wanted for a response full of “no, no, no thanks, no.” I decided that to cut out the guess work, have a more balanced diet, and prep the kiddos for having a set menu at school having a monthly menu would be a great idea.
We’ve only done it for three days, but so far it is a total success. I know exactly what to make and the kids don’t argue.

I just wrote down all the things I could think of in four categories: entree, side, vegetable, and fruit. If I thought of something we did not have at the time, I wrote it on the grocery list.

Once I had our list, I printed out a calendar and got to work filling it with a menu. If the entree had tomato sauce or something vegetable like I would pair it with a fruit. I made sure that each day we had at least one fruit or vegetable. I realize it is not the healthiest menu on the planet, but I’m feeding a 4 year old and a one year old. They aren’t going to happily eat swiss chard.
I had just gone grocery shopping, so I just put the things on the shopping list at the end of the month. Easy peasy, I had most everything on hand and we aren’t eating the same thing twice!
edit*: Just heard about this adorable free printable lunch menu on Anything But Perfect and it is so perfect!
What’s your lunch routine? Any ideas to share?

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Organize It

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It’s that time. Decide on a goal and give it a go for a month or so. 😉 Anyone else picking organizing this time around? Getting the clutter under control is a big task here are a bunch of cool ways to organize it. If you follow me on Pinterest you may recognize these. 😉

1. Cleaning Supplies
Tension rod under the sink {source}
Shoe caddy on the back of the door {source}
2. Jewelry

Hardware Handles {Liz Marie Blog}
Peg Board {Button Bird Designs}
Ice Cube Trays {Bead Up}
Cutlery Tray {MiniManor}
Shower Curtain Hooks {This Bird Can Sing}
3. Shoes

Crown Molding {pinterest source}
Crates {The Berry}
Trash Cans {Minor Details}
Cardboard tubes (fabric holding or cement molding tubes?) {Reino Selvagem}
Wire hangers for flip flops or flats {Epbot}
Skirt hangers for boots{Organizing Made Fun}
Alternating direction to make more fit {Cupcakes and Cashmere}
4. Gift Wrap
Ceiling {Flickr}
Back of Door with Ikea products {Brooklyn Limestone}
5. Makeup & Hair
Magnetic Organizers {Martha Stewart}
Make-up Magnet Board {Laura Thoughts}
PVC Curling Iron Holsters {The Family Handyman}
Magnet Strips for bobby pins, tweezers, clippers, etc.{Superwoman}

For more amazing organizing ideas visit my “Organize It!” board on pinterest or some of our other organization posts:

–DIY Jewelry Organizer for the back of a door

–Earring Holder

-Upcycled Window Task Board
–How to Freeze Meat to stack nicely and defrost quickly
Happy New Year and good luck with you organization projects!

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