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Posts tagged “organizing”

Accepting A Messy Entryway

Once upon a time, we stressed about keeping our entryway immaculate: shoes away, keys organized, no junk mail or mailers littering the console...These days, we've become much more realistic about what...

Organize The Small Stuff: A Printing Tray

A few months back, we braved the attic storage and unearthed a relic from the summer of '94: our old collection of rubber stamps from a crafty camp workshop (which would explain why so many of these s...

Storage Solution: Where to Store Pot Lids

One of Maxwell's recent emails put the spot light on pot racks, the perfect solution for storing pots in a small kitchen. Not only do they put these hardworking tools within easy reach of the cook bu...

Wrangling the Garden Hose

See that photo up top? That's our apartment's communal hose and it almost always looks that unruly. It's about time we get that black mamba in check, but we're not quite sure which hose organizing sol...

Look! Dishsoap Dispenser

In the quest for an unlabeled, streamlined life, dispensing dish soap into an attractive container is a first step that goes back to Martha. But the decorated dispensers she suggests are a little too...

Keeping Your Towels Neat

Keeping a bathroom inviting and neat is a constant challenge, especially if it's a small one. Add one, two or more people into the mix and keeping it clutter-free can turn into a giant headache with ...

Casual Summer Cure

If you're looking to conquer some paperwork, work on the garden, finally clean out the kitchen, or just figure out a way to make your space feel better without spending any money, check out the LA Cur...

Look! Bread boxes

The other night we had dinner at The Little Next Door. The bread was served in delicate boxes made of poplar wood... ...

How Do You Organize Your Entry?

While we'd like--no, LOVE--our entryway to look clean, organized, and pristine all the time, we'll settle for just 60% of the time. After all, we find ourselves not knowing where anything is after we...

Noteboard by Carole Lowgren

What to do with dry cleaning tickets, receipts, dental appointment reminders and the other detritus of daily life? We're always looking for new ways to organize papers on our landing strip. We'd bee...

Adjustable Hangers for an Organized Closet

One of the things that can make the difference between an organized closet and a disorganized one is uniform hangers. The challenge is when your clothes are not as uniform as your hangers. ...

10 Best Useful Household Items

This morning, after we posted about Zilok, the online items rental service, we started a laundry list of items we feel are essential to have around the house. These fairly mundane items are items we u...

Update on Organizing Paperwork

Last month we covered How To Manage and File paperwork. I showed the short term filing system I use and now, after a quick trip to Target, I've improved my system: ...

Black Ultra Hold Clamp

We're thinking about reclaiming a closet by kicking out the vacuum that currently monopolizes it. We'll replace it with that stick vacuum Gregory blogged a few weeks ago, and use this clamp we found ...

How Do You Organize Your Linen Closet?

Even if you don't have a closet dedicated to just your linens, how do you keep it all organized? We're about to tackle this project during the week, and we're looking at the guru of housekeeping herse...

Mission Accomplished: The Closet Library

Certainly the biggest guilty secret in our apartment has been the state of our walk-in closet, where things went in, but seemed to rarely depart. But thanks to a few yard sales, following some of our ...

Round Up: Shower Caddys

Like many in Los Angeles, we've got a stall shower as well as a bathtub. While it's one of the "perks" of living in Los Angeles, we've got no ledges in the stall to store our stuff so our stuff accum...

6 Uses for a Melamine Tray from Pier 1

Another double duty item to help get us organized: this melamine 3 part tray from Pier 1 is the perfect way to keep small things from spreading out all over the house. See 6 ideas for how to corral ...

Round-up: Toothpaste dispensers

MC's low tech versionWe hate waste of any kind. We take doggie bags from restaurants, we rework our clothing into new things, we reupholster, refinish and recycle. Making sure we get all the toothpa...

Where to Keep a List?

This happens to me fairly often: I find myself running low on something like...dishwashing liquid. And I write it down on a list. And inevitably, by the time I'm ready to go to the store, the list has...

12 Uses for Baskets around the House

We love baskets. Their woven texture and light airy look says summer to us. And with their many colours, weaves and sizes, they're versatile. Here are some ways we use them around the house. [Im...

How To: Keep Your Home Clean Without a Maid

Yesterday we asked the question, do you clean before the cleaning lady comes? We have to confess that we no longer have a cleaning lady. We gave her up when we realized that our apartment wasn't cle...

Simple Magazine Box

Oftentimes simple, beautiful design can be expensive and that's why we love finding an affordable alternative. We're loving this magazine holder and love the price even more......

Urbanic Tips for Staying Ahead of Clutter

We're huge fans of Urbanic Paper Boutique. Not only does Audrey stock the best letterpress cards and journals, but the store always looks so stylish and organized. How does she do it? (Did we menti...