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A Visual Guide to Cost Savings & Energy Savings throughout the Whole House [InfoGraphic]

admin — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 15:09:56 +0000

Pretty cool infographic brought to us by Quicken – Energy and Cost savings throughout the house.

Recycled Shipping Crate Shelving – from Knock Off Blog

admin — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 03:06:21 +0000

I’ve recently falling in love with Ana over at the Knock Off Wood blog.

Her plans are awesome to the max – she sketches all kinds of cool commercial and none commercial plans up that anyone can use.

Check out the uber creative use of recycled shipping crates. Too Cool!

Shipping Crate Hack

The Benefits of Hiring a Professional Organizer

Lori — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 23:31:18 +0000

Professional organization services are available in many communities, cities and urban areas and can enlighten the homeowner with methods, tips and techniques that can help to make the home more efficient, organized and clutter free.

Should you hire a professional organizer for your home? There are many signs that your home could use a complete overhaul by an unbiased professional organizer, these include:

· If you are no longer able to find space within your home for small objects

· If your counter and floors and all work surfaces seem to be covered with random objects

· If you are unable to locate what you are looking for

· If you open your cupboards and are faced with objects falling down, falling out and generally becoming an overwhelming mess

A professional organizer for the home can have many benefits to the homeowner – as they offer the following services:

· A consultation for the homeowner to have access to design ideas and organization tips that can help to organize the home and the life. This consultation is often offered free of charge to the homeowner to assess the needs and determine how the organizational consultant can provide help to the homeowner.

· The professional organizer can help the homeowner to come up with a plan and include the homeowner in the creation of the organizational system that will be used throughout the home.

· The professional organizer can recommend products within the home that can ease the organization schedule. These products can be an effective way to reduce the clutter within the home.

· The professional organizer often receives a discount on these specialized storage and organizational products which can save the homeowner money.

· Follow up visits can be created so the homeowner can determine which organizational methods are working, and those which are not working. This can help the homeowner to maintain order in the home once the organizer has left.

These are only a few of the many benefits that come to light when a professional organizer is hired to undertake the overhaul of a home and increase the efficiency of the home while teaching those that live within the home extensive lessons which can be used to maintain the methods that have been learned to keep the home clutter free.

Should You Hire a Professional Organizer?

How to Create an Organized File System

Lori — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 23:28:34 +0000

An efficient filing system is the only way to rid a household of papers that seem to overcome countertops and many other areas within the home. Although many people are unsure about where to begin when it comes to organizing paper files, it is important to have the following supplies ready:

· File folders that can be used to separate individual file folders

· Labels that can be affixed to the folders

· Filing cabinet or other source of efficient filing system

· Permanent Marker or pen to label file folders

The first thing to do is to gather all of the paperwork that needs to be filed and store this paperwork in one area. This way, the organizer can have access to everything in front of them, rather than searching for papers through the course of the organizational quest.

Next, determine the categories. It can be helpful to start with the basic systems of paperwork that should be kept track of, using household bills and bank statements and education information to create file folders.

How long should you keep paperwork within the filing system? At least six months is recommended for household bills and other types of paperwork that have to do with utilities and contracts. Other statements that have to do with taxation and government should be kept for seven years, although there can be a separate location for these items if there is just too much paper work to keep a handle on.

Next, begin with the pile of paperwork, get the files ready and write on the labels which should be affixed to the file. File the paperwork inside of the file, placing the paper file inside of the filing cabinet or other method of filing to ensure that it will remain organized.

Experts recommend that these files be kept in alphabetical order to maintain the organization of the files. This can ensure that the paperwork is kept organized and statements can be easily located within the filing system. This also makes the process of filing paperwork in the future easier.

Any receipts or statements that don’t require filing can be kept within another pile to be shredded or destroyed.

Some helpful files that can be included in the filing system include bills that need to be paid, in the front of the filing system to avoid the buildup of mail on the kitchen counter, as well as receipts and charitable donations and even a file folder for miscellaneous papers that find their way into the system.

Organizing Media in Your Home

Lori — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 23:27:49 +0000

Between the music and video collections that are present in most households, it can be difficult to know where to begin when it comes to trying to organize the hundreds of CDs and DVDs that can seem to take over the living space.

Here are some tips that you can use to keep your media in check and reduce the clutter in the home from movies, games and music that can take over the space.

Make use of digital music devices that allow you to transfer all of the CDs in your collection to digital music files which can be played using digital devices and Mp3 players. There are even many devices that allow you to make the most of these files by granting access throughout the home through the use of a sound system installed within each room and controlled by a remote. This can reduce the clutter that comes from CDs, as the CDs can be stored in containers, rather than having to go through countless CDs to find the ones that you are looking for, stored within a media center in the living space.

Consider using an album that can store all of the DVDs, rather than having the cases take up valuable room on the shelves of the living room and within media centers. These cases can store upwards of two hundred fifty DVDs and therefore the cases can be stored. To make the movies easy to find consider using a system that makes use of alphabetical order or the like to ensure that you won’t lose track of the DVDs. As an alternative, place labels in each pocket that can be used to determine which DVDs belong where.

These simple methods can help to declutter media and ensure that everything is in its place. Using these methods you can clear up valuable shelf space within your living area to make room for other things that can be displayed through the home.

There are many other methods that can be used to reduce the cases in the home, including multiple media storage devices which are able to digitally store movies, as well as music and image files, making all of your movies and music available at the touch of a button, while getting rid of the cases and abolishing them to a storage room. Can’t get much better than that!

Using Internet Tools to Organize Your Home

Lori — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 23:27:08 +0000

Using the internet is an effective way to learn new methods, systems and find organizational tools that can help to declutter the home. There are tools that are available on the internet and spreadsheets and calendars that can be printed to make the most of a schedule within the home.

There are plans available on the internet to help you declutter your home through the use of a one month or six week long plan, in as little as five minutes per day. These schedules are an effective way to reduce the clutter through the whole entire home. Simply searching for a home organization calendar that can help to reduce clutter through a search engine is an effective way to find a schedule that you can adhere to.

Where can you find these tools that can be used to declutter the home and what tools are available to help the consumer organize their home?

There are many useful websites and blogs that are full of information that can be used to maintain organization in the home. Blogs like this one are available to allow the homeowner to find simple methods that can be used to declutter the home and make the most of the tips and tools which are available to organize the home.

Internet tools like daily emails and sign-up lists are an effective way to declutter the home. These tools can be read daily as email lists can be arranged to allow the homeowner access to daily information, tracking sheets and simple home organization tips.

Consider using interactive features like progress reports and tracking tools which can be used to track the progress that has been made in the household. Detailed charts can be filled in through the use of the internet browser, or the charts can be printed to track the progress that has been made manually.

Professional organizers offer tips from famous lectures and seminars which can be used to help declutter a home that has fallen victim to disorganization. These tips and techniques from the experts can be read and then implemented into the daily schedule, allowing you to begin organizing your home in as little as five to ten minutes per day.

The Rules of Clutter

Lori — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 23:26:05 +0000

The rules of clutter, or should we say, the rules of declutter should be established in every home to help the area remain free and clear of items on the floor, items on tabletops and items in other various aspects of the home. These rules of clutter are an effective way to reduce the clutter within your home while learning the tricks of the trade that are learned from professional organizers.

Here are some of the rules of clutter that every homeowner should adhere to, in order to maintain the cleanliness and organization within their life.

If you don’t use it, toss it!

This is one of the basic rules of clutter, but many people do not follow this rule, making it is impossible for people within the home to have a clear living space. If you have not used, worn or made use of the item in at least six months than the item should not be kept within the home. These items can create clutter in the home. Set a six month schedule for yourself to purge items within the household that aren’t being used at least twice per year to reduce the amount of clutter in your life.

Keep countertops and other surfaces clear

Keeping these surfaces clear is an effective way to reduce the clutter in your life and help to maintain a clean lifestyle. Make this a rule in your home and make use of catch-all baskets and drawer organizers to ensure that everything in the home has its place. Teach children from an early age that items are not to be placed on the countertop; rather these items should belong in a specific area.

Establish a System

Everyone has their own personal organization system that should be established within the home to ensure that clutter is kept to an absolute minimum. Establishing your own personal organization system is an effective way to reduce the clutter in the home while increasing the order that occurs within the life.

Searching through the internet to find an organization system that works for you, or speaking with an organizational expert is an effective way to make the most of your home.

Using these methods, it can be an effective way to reduce the amount of clutter in the home through simple organizational rules that should be established and maintained.

Decluttering Bathroom Storage

Lori — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 23:25:03 +0000

As most bathrooms seem to lack storage space, under the bathroom sink becomes the only feasible option for storing items that should be out of sight within the bathroom. Decluttering bathroom storage is an effective way to become organized – using these tips, it is possible to overcome the clutter that can become easily built up in the bathroom.

First, make use od all possible storage under the bathroom. Most people decide to make use of the bottom of the bathroom cabinet, rather than making use of the entire space through the use of shelves and drawers that can be placed under the bathroom sink in the storage area.

Installing small towel bars on the inside of the bathroom sink cupboards is an effective way to hang small items like loofahs, sponges and other small items which can become cluttered under the bathroom sink. This is also a great place to store extra small hand towels, if you have no room within the bathroom for storage for these small, but hard to store items.

Now, for the medicine cabinet – what can possibly be done to declutter the area? There are often small remnants of bottles, medications and other small personal items that are placed in these storage areas. Chances are, if you are using a medicine cabinet in where everything in the cabinet seems to fall from place when the door has been opened, it is time to make use of some organizational measures.

The medicine cabinet should be cleared of these items through the use of small locker storage systems that have magnetic devices which can be stuck to the inside of the cabinet and help to make use of the storage that can be claimed through these areas. These items can be found at any department or office supply store and enable the area to be kept neat and tidy, regardless of the amount of small items which are stored inside the medicine cabinet.

Using these tips, you can make the most of the bathroom space and allow the area to be neat and tidy, despite all the small storage items which can easily clutter a bathroom space.

Organizing Holiday and Seasonal Storage within the Home

Lori — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 23:24:18 +0000

With so many holidays per year, clear plastic containers are one of the most effective way to store all of the decorations that have been accumulated. These storage containers can distinguish Christmas from valentine’s decorations. These storage bins can be customized with labels to determine which holidays the decorations are suitable for.

Within these storage bins, Ziploc bags to contain small items or multiple items are an effective way to avoid detangling tinsel for hours upon hours while using the plastic bags to separate items. Have you ever tried to detangle a set of lights that seems to become endlessly tangled among itself? If this is the case, than plastic bags are an essential way to deter the frustration that comes with these lights.

Aside from clear plastic containers, what are some other methods that can be used to organize the clutter that comes from holidays?

Each holiday season that the supplies are taken out from the Holiday storage system be sure to arrange items that are not going to be used and arrange for these items to be donated, or thrown into the trash. This way, these items can easily be transferred to someone else’s ownership before having to be stored for another year in your home. Most homes are lacking in storage space, therefore it is important to make as most of the Holiday storage as possible.

Rather than using bubble wrap and newspaper to store fragile ornaments, consider using alternative methods such as containers that have been created to store these items with ease. This way, the ornaments can be stored without becoming broken and can be preserved for years to come. Ornaments are very fragile and these separated containers are an effective way to reduce the storage space and reduce the boxes that can be used for storage.

To store an artificial Christmas tree, consider using a plastic storage container, rather than the box that the Christmas tree was purchased in. this type of box can warp the tree and leave the tree susceptible to damage, therefore should be avoided to maintain the condition of the tree for use year after year.

While storing garland and other items that can become easily tangled, use paper towel rolls or other items that the garland can be wrapped around. This will make it a breeze to unwrap these items for use next year, while reducing the chances that the items will become tangled, and ruined. Especially with garland, which can easily come apart from the stringing, it is important to maintain care of these items while they are being stored.

Organize Your Linens Like a Pro

Lori — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 16:56:40 +0000

Linens closets are daunting organizational tasks for most homeowners, as they contain hard to fold sheets and other items which can be difficult to store. Linen closets can be a mess of towels and sheets that are thrown into the closet. Organizing this mess does not have to result in frustration with the items in the closet.

Here are some ways that you can take measures to organize the linen closet:

To organize the linen closet it can be helpful to remove everything from the closet and first determine which items are going to be kept, than these items can be organized. Consider donating or putting sheets that are mismatched in the trash. These items often take up valuable space within the linen closet and should be avoided.

Take advantage of shelf organizers that can be used to increase the capacity of the linen closet. These shelf organizers are an effective way to create four spaces within one shelf. To store items within these organizers consider rolling towels and facecloths, rather than

Use plastic bags to preserve items that are not used on a regular basis. These bags can help to protect extra pillows and blankets from dust and other aspects which may harm the materials that the pillows and blankets are created from. Using scented beads within these bags can be the perfect way to keep the fresh scent within the fabrics. Aside from scented beads, fabric softener sheets are also an effective way to maintain the fresh scent of the washed-laundry, for cheap.

There is extra space within the linen closet that many people do not take advantage of. Spaces like on the door where hanging system can be used to store table cloths and other items that may be awkward and hard to organize or keep wrinkle free. Hanging systems can be used to accommodate up to ten table cloths, blankets and other coverings. These systems are available to consumers trying to organize their space.

Store like things together on shelves. Grouping similar items together is an effective way to organize the linen closet. Towels, bedding as well as supplies should be organized together. Make use of baskets and totes while trying to organize items within the linen closet. These can even be used to organize towels and other toiletry items.

The bottom of the linen closet is an effective place to store bathroom supplies and extra toilet paper and other items which are kept in the bathroom. Organizers that include drawers can be an effective use of storage for small items which are kept in the bathroom such as toothpaste and extra toothbrushes.

Using these methods to organize the linen closet can be an effective way to maintain organization – even in the hidden parts of the home.

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