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Guest Post: How to Use Upcycled Cabinets for Organizing

Posted by: on February 17th, 2012 | 4 Comments

There’s really no better time to tackle some organizing and decluttering around your house than these last few weeks of Winter before Spring arrives. Once the sun comes out and trees start to bloom, indoor projects will hit the back burner. While you’re neatening and tidying your nest, consider these helpful tips from organizing extraordinaire, Jen of iHeartOrganizing. See how she repurposes old, used cabinet doors and keeps her busy family-of-five organized. 

Repurposing old cabinet doors

Read on for her easy, how-tos and organizational tips. Take it away, Jen!

Any cabinet door can be transformed to be a fabulous organizational tool.  It may seem hard to believe that something so simple can be a total game changer, but here are a couple of ways that we use them in our home to stay organized.

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Make Storage Solutions Pretty

Posted by: on January 31st, 2012 | Make A Comment

Day 31 of 31 Days, 31 Ways to Get Organized: My final organizing tip of the month is not clever, just important. When you’re organizing, make storage solutions look pretty! When you’re organizing your linen closet or kitchen pantry, keep the style of the rest of your home in mind and do your best to make sure that function and frills work together. 

Pretty closet

Image from Houzz

[Editor's Note: 31 Days, 31 Ways to Get Organized is a series featuring clever storage and organization tips that will help you clean house in the new year]

Create a Built-in for your TV

Posted by: on January 30th, 2012 | Make A Comment

Day 30 of 31 Days, 31 Ways to Get Organized: If you’re looking for a better way to store your TV and television components, consider having a built-in space specifically designed for your electronics. This home takes the useless space from a staircase and turns it into a hard-working media cabinet!

Built-in media cabinet

Image from MyHomeIdeas

[Editor's Note: 31 Days, 31 Ways to Get Organized is a series featuring clever storage and organization tips that will help you clean house in the new year]

How To Store Dishes in Pot Drawers

Posted by: on January 29th, 2012 | Make A Comment

Day 29 of 31 Days, 31 Ways to Get Organized: If you have deep pot drawers that you’d like to use to store dishes, use pegboard and simple wooden dowels to make sure your dishes don’t move in the drawer.

Safely store dishes in pot drawers

Image from BHG

[Editor's Note: 31 Days, 31 Ways to Get Organized is a series featuring clever storage and organization tips that will help you clean house in the new year]

Install a Hidden Cutting Board

Posted by: on January 28th, 2012 | Make A Comment

Day 28 of 31 Days, 31 Ways to Get Organized: If you’ve love the functionality of a kitchen island but don’t have room for one, consider installing a pull-out butcher-block chopping station right over your trash can. You can chop straight on the cutting board and easily whip discards into the trash can. 

Chopping station over the trash can

Image from The Farm Chicks

[Editor's Note: 31 Days, 31 Ways to Get Organized is a series featuring clever storage and organization tips that will help you clean house in the new year]

Use Glass Containers to Store Small Items

Posted by: on January 27th, 2012 | One Comment

Day 27 of 31 Days, 31 Ways to Get Organized: One thing you may have noticed throughout this entire series is the use of glass (or clear plastic) containers to store small items. Glass vases, canisters, mason jars, and clear boxes are all essential storage tools.

Store items together in glass containers

Image from MyHomeIdeas

Glass containers allow you to keep like items together (like paper clips), and they’re clear which means you’ll always know where something is. By keeping all of the pens, paperclips and the other little office items together, they look neat. Everything has its own place — you don’t have a crazy, cluttered ‘junk drawer.’ Rather, everything has a home, and it’s easy to figure out where that home is.

[Editor's Note: 31 Days, 31 Ways to Get Organized is a series featuring clever storage and organization tips that will help you clean house in the new year]

Give Cartons and Bottles a Home

Posted by: on January 26th, 2012 | Make A Comment

Day 25 of 31 Days, 31 Ways to Get Organized: Add labels to the refrigerator door to keep things in their place.

Storage & organization tips

Image from BHG

[Editor's Note: 31 Days, 31 Ways to Get Organized is a series featuring clever storage and organization tips that will help you clean house in the new year]

How to Repurpose an Old Dresser

Posted by: on January 25th, 2012 | One Comment

Day 25 of 31 Days, 31 Ways to Get Organized: This is a fabulous way to keep children’s toys organized. Remove drawers from an old dresser, replace them with baskets, and add a few labels. That way kids can pull out their basket, play with the toys, and put them all back later. Younger kids’ baskets go on the bottom, older kids on the top. Pretty smart, huh?

Use an old dresser to keep things organized

Image from Clover Lane

Check out the original blogpost for even more organizing ideas!

[Editor's Note: 31 Days, 31 Ways to Get Organized is a series featuring clever storage and organization tips that will help you clean house in the new year]

How to Create a Charging Station

Posted by: on January 24th, 2012 | Make A Comment

Day 24 of 31 Days, 31 Ways to Get Organized: Turn a corner into a charging station with just a surge protector and a few binder clips. A charging station will ensure you keep cords organized and never lose your cell phone or iPod’s charger.

Create an electronic charging station

Image from lifehacking.nl

Be sure that when none of these charging cables is connected to a device, the surge protector is unplugged. Electronic devices can overheat and cause fires, and they’re also a drain on your home’s electricity when they aren’t in use.

[Editor's Note: 31 Days, 31 Ways to Get Organized is a series featuring clever storage and organization tips that will help you clean house in the new year]

How to Organize Miscellaneous Items

Posted by: on January 23rd, 2012 | Make A Comment

Day 23 of 31 Days, 31 Ways to Get Organized: Sometimes little areas of your home can be forgotten when you catch the organizing bug. Next time you’re out, grab a few of these wire shower hangers and use them to corral random items. Hang it on the wall, on the inside of a cabinet, or on the back of a door to organize small bathroom containers, first aid items, mail, notebooks, or anything else that might be easily lost or misplaced.

Storage and organization tips: wire shower hanger

Image from BHG

[Editor's Note: 31 Days, 31 Ways to Get Organized is a series featuring clever storage and organization tips that will help you clean house in the new year]