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Posts tagged “organizing”

Flickr Finds: Hownowdesign's Bundt Pan Wall

We're always searching for new and interesting ways to display (or house) our favorite collections. Recently we stumbled upon this very cool kitchen wall, courtesy of flickr user hownowdesign. We ar...

Flickr Finds: Eccentric Scholar's Rainbow Bookcase

We recently spotted this awesome bookshelf on Flickr and just had to share it with you. Says Eccentric Scholar, "I aligned my books in honor of the Rainbow Snake of Australian mythology. (Hence, the ...

Accidental Trends at Home

We've written about discovering unwitting color trends in our own home. It's sort of the way our wardrobe manifests itself as well...we'll buy a new shirt only to find the same style already hiding o...

SPLAT Dish Rack by Jill Davis Design

We've had it all wrong. In the past we've always been tempted by the massive dish drying contraptions in the big box home stores; they feed our pitiful illusion that the more full-service the dish ra...

Organizing Office Supplies

It's true, we have a thing for nifty little boxes. We inherited this lovely wooden box from a well-organized friend and it sat on our desk for over a year before we put anything inside. We couldn't ...

Look!: Cool Storage at the Curiosity Shoppe

Being that it's Spring Cleaning (and Organization) Month here at AT, we couldn't help but show you this awesome storage we spotted at the Curiosity Shoppe. ...

Yukka Collapsible Storage/Trash Bin

Does anyone remember the old-school collapsible cups that were popular among the under-10 set in the 80s? We can't help but compare this collapsible bin to those cups, and wonder now why no one thou...

Look!: Small Hardware Storage Out of Recycled Cans

It seems like such a no-brainer to use these short, wide containers for small parts storage. But then again, we've discarded hundreds of tuna fish cans in our lifetimes without a second thought, so ...

Thomas Paul Inbox Trays

We hate to admit it, but we're what some might call organizationally challenged. It's a constant struggle for us to keep on top of the paper piles, but we're determined to win the fight. We've discov...

Look!: DIY Mug Display

We've been following Portland resident Erica Mulherin's home projects for a while now. We were especially impressed with the display system that the illustrator (and blogger) devised for her inherite...

Large Metal Coat Hooks by Stilleben

We spotted these colorful large metal coat hooks on the Dwell Blog earlier today, and now we're, well, fixated....

Help Us Organize Our Space!

What we're sharing here, dear readers, is a bit of an embarrassment. But we'll push our shame aside in the spirit of this month's organizing and cleaning theme, and we're asking for your help!...

How To: Store Your Fabrics

We'll admit it, we're certified fabric junkies. Because of this, we're always trying to figure out neat and interesting ways to store our hundreds (literally) of samples. We've found that this parti...

Guess What's in Our Card File...

Not recipes or addresses...we found a better use for our little gray box. See what we got going on below the jump......

Look!: Needle Book's Craft Studio

Since May is Cleaning/Organizing Month, we'd thought we'd share this fantastic craft studio from Needle Book. We particularly love how the painted white storage sets the stage for showcasing the beau...

How To: Remember Where You Parked

We don't have a car in the city for lots of reasons (however anytime it's raining we can't remember of any of them), a big one being that parking here is bananas. The few times we've borrowed a car we...

Close-Up!: John's Strauss Glass Milk Bottles

So many contest entries, so much inspiration. Just one of the many things we've loved comes from Northwest #11: John's Mission Melange....

Close-Up!: Derik's Tchotchke Organization

We're in the midst of an office organizing overhaul (i.e. HELL) and we're trying to come up with a practical and clever way to organize our "creativity" (i.e. MESS). We were particularly blown away ...

Clip Desktop Holder from the MoMA Store

Made of one tube of bent stainless steel, this desktop collator is quite a few steps up from the standard issue versions available at your local office supply store....

Office Basics File Box from See Jane Work

Every time we file our taxes we swear that we'll be more prepared when next year rolls around. Perhaps we would be more likely to keep all those receipts organized if we had one of these Office Basics...

Rationell Variera Spice Rack from IKEA

IKEA really shines when it comes to small storage like this. And though we love the look of uniform containers and clever magnetized designs, we're not keen on transferring our spices to new contai...

Look!: Bird Clothes Pegs

We already thought clothes pegs were cool, be they the modern wood-and-spring ones or the older-fashioned ones that look like a head and two legs. So these are delightful to us....

Look!: CD Side Table

So we know you enlightened souls out there would urge us to dispense with CDs and the attendant clutter, but some of us just can't let go, even if our collection is duplicated in iTunes. For the la...

Graduated Liquid Measurer

We're shocked that this container design hasn't swept store shelves like wildfire. It's a storage container and measuring cup all in one — it works by allowing you to tip liquid back and forth b...

Store 'n Slide Wall Organizer

The fact that our apartment has zero closets may come off as modern and vaguely Scandinavian in the bedroom, say, but it's not as easy to make the contents of a utility closet look cool....

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