Apartment Therapy Tagged: Organizing

5 Places To Place Your Shoes

We love the colors of Fall - the leaves changing colors, gorgeous sunsets and the new crop of colorful shoes and boots that hit the sales floor. Unfortunately, our own very small closet-for-two is pac...

How To: Start Organizing: Part III

Whew. You're on the home stretch and have sorted, purged and decided where all your items will finally land. What's next is the easy part--storing and stowing. We took some pictures of containers w...

How To: Start Organizing: Part II

On Tuesday, we left you with a few simple steps on how to start organizing. So now what? It's time to start categorizing and giving your items a home, sweet, home. ...

How To: Start Organizing: Part I

One of the first steps to organizing your belongings is to plan. Have a goal and set a finite date or time you will accomplish your goal (we suggest starting out small with goal setting)--but then wh...

Look!: Wood Books

Don't judge a book by it's cover--just because it's made out of wood doesn't mean it can't be interesting... at least that's what we're saying about these wood books we saw at Moss last week. More af...

Look: Picture Frame Medicine Cabinet!
Austin

We came across this photo of a medicine cabinet while browsing through the September issue of Better Homes and Gardens. What a great idea to place a framed photograph on the door! This definitely dis...

Your Coffee Table Style

AT readers...we try out best to keep up with your comments, especially excellent requests like the one made by Lisa Hunter (Montreal) who asked us to poll our readership about their coffee table order...

Organizing With Magnetic Boards

We've always had a fascination with the fridge door, or rather the display of items that cling to someone's fridge door. While we like checking out friends fridge door "collages," we prefer to keep o...

Use Decorative Tags to Label When Organizing

We're off to an organizing jump start this week and with Fall just around the corner we wanna hit the ground running with a fresh, new start. One of our favorite organizing tips is the importance of l...

2 Tips To Make Filing Easier

We hear a lot of complaints when it comes to filing paperwork--and we're not excluded from the rabble rousers either. It's boring and paper takes a while to process--especially if you let the piles b...

Organizing the Office With... Desk Dots

We found these Desk Dot ceramic magnets while searching the web for must-have office products. While these magnets aren't a necessity we like their simple design and their strong capacity for holdin...

How Do You Keep Track of Projects?

With the long weekend behind us, hopefully some of the projects you wanted to accomplish have been crossed off the list. Poring through magazines and blogs we have a million and one projects that we'...

Look! The Mondrian Hotel's Wall of Hooks

This weekend, we blogged the Los Angeles Times Home and Garden section which spotlit the recent renovation at the Mondrian Hotel. A wall in the bathroom caught our eye both for its simplicity and its...

Using Color to Organize Your Files

Last week we talked about organizing your files using the straight-line filing technique. To further organize your paperwork we suggest assigning color to each category in your files. No longer will...

Pulp Memo Boards

For the most part we are crafty enough to make our own memo board with some spray paint or found fabric. But lately we can't imagine finding the time to make anything. So when we spied these pre-mad...

Straight Line Filing

We love the streamlined look over here at Apartment Therapy. So when we found an even better way to keep our files in line we thought we'd share the neat idea with you. Check out why straight-line f...

Look: Simple and Colorful Organizing Tip!
Austin

Have a space that desperately needs organizing but all you have the budget for are unattractive plastic drawers? Or perhaps you're about to move into a dorm and are looking for a way to show off your...

Cleaning Out the Clothes Closet Painlessly, Part 2

The other day, we shared a great tip for cleaning out the closet painlessly, which works great for clothes that hang. But what about clothes in drawers? Flipping through In Style's Makeover edition ...

10 Dorm Essentials: Under $100

Moving into the dorm can be a great escape and a chance to start out fresh, independent and confident. There are a couple of things that will help that transition feel like a success: ...

Phrase Organizing

A professional organizer will ask a client a handful of questions to help them part with their belongings. We realize that some items are harder to part with than others and we'd like to suggest a di...

Organizing a Collection

We have a friend who used to love Hello Kitty products. Hello Kitty toaster, Hello Kitty toothbrush and let's not forget the Hello Kitty steering wheel cover. Let's just say, our friend had a collec...

Keeping It All Together

Single. Solitary. One isn't necessarily the loneliest number. It could mean the difference between going insane or keeping your cool. What we're suggesting is keeping one notebook at the ready for...

Look!: Revolving Shoe Tree

We are always scouring the web for innovative shoe storage solutions. So when our computer screen came across this solution, we had to explore the Revolving Shoe Tree further... ...

Good Looking Active Files

What's the deal with active files? Aren't files just files? Not a chance! Active files are those great reminder files that always stay within reach and are accessed on a daily/weekly basis... ...

New Use for Magazine Files

Previously thought to only hold magazines, these attractive magazine files can perform double duty... ...

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