If you're reading this blog, chances are you're a visual person. Maybe you "read" photographs more quickly and more easily than text, or you might prefer charts and graphs to written reports. People who think visually often organize their homes by color.
Color can be a great unifier, creating connections between various objects. It can also help to differentiate things, like using color-coding to keep your tax files separate from your personal files.
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- In Emily and Meeko's home, yellow accessories create a sense of cohesiveness in the kitchen.
- Although they don't precisely color code their books, Matthew and Deb group the spines in similar colors and patterns to make a shelf look organized.
- Jennifer groups together a few different patterns that have similar colors running through them. The embroidery hoop frames and common palette make them read as one group.
- Laura is a professional organizer who color codes her closet. Grouping shoes, shirts, and coats by color makes them easier to locate.
- Kitty keeps her photos and small things organized inside colored boxes.
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I love to organize by color but how do those photos above show any example, really?
I'm definitely a colour-organiser. And I like my organising to be in matching containers as well (boxes, magazine holders, so on and so forth).
But what I really love is the panda on the tea tray. Is it for anything, or does it just add character?
totally off topic, but what is that mug holder-thing called in the first pic? the one that has the yellow mugs stacked in it. i've wanted one for awhile but can't think of what they're called to look for one lol. i know urban outfitters used to have them for sale...thoughts?
amers230 -- not sure if they have a name but those specific stacked mugs are from Cost Plus World Market.
I like to organize be color, but all of my storage boxes, magazine holders and binders are white. It looks nice and clean and when I need more I can always find them. Not like colors that go in and out of style...
I love those yellow jumbo cups from world market ^_^ They seriously make my day. Coffee, cereal, soup bowl, hot cocoa, little salad...they are the to go cups.
As far as color goes, the green Ikea cardboard magazine files and storage boxes are of a great color that I haven't seen go out of style in the last 80 years or so
I love my World Market stack-able cups :)
The pictures above are pretty. Not quite my idea of organizing by color. This looks like decorating by color groups in the first few pictures. The shoes and wallets, however, are sorted by color.
For me, organizing by color is what I do in my file cabinet where all my files are in different colors: blue for bills, green for banks, red for work contracts, etc.
At work, my notebook is color-coded: pink for phone numbers, green for information, blue for resources. (The same colors I can get in any highlighter set.)
"People who think visually often organize their homes by color."
Really?
I'm super visual, and while I obviously coordinate the colors that decorate my home, I definitely do not color code my clothes? Why? Because it makes things *harder* to find! A green shirt is going to be much easier to find when it is against a black shirt, more than if it's hanging between six other green shirts, ya know? I tried that, and it is much more efficient to spread out the colors as much as possible. I actually make sure items of the same color are not hung next to one another. Maybe my rational side is overriding my visual side, haha!
Amers, I think that's a stackable toilet-paper holder. My late bf had one in his bathroom, and I never did get around to tossing it out. It's under the microwave stand right now. I'm getting it out, scouring it, and turning it into a mug holder!
goddessisin and madampince - yessssss thank you!!!!
ive seen the stackable cups at Pier One
I have to say, I love that the first picture matches the mugs to a can of Cafe du Monde coffee. :)
I think the cup holder and the stackable cups come as a set (they always have in the various places I've seen them)