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Home Office Remodel or Home Office Furniture?

By Tina Gleisner in Building & Remodeling, Home Offices, Organizing & Storage, Shelving & Storage, Working at Home
home office furniture with lots of color

What’s in your home office, or do you even have a home office? The concept of a home office isn’t new – it’s actually quite old. When the US economy was based on agriculture, homes were also where business with a room fore the business owner to hold meetings and deal with paperwork.

At Boston’s North Shore Design Show last year, one room was decorated like one of these old fashion home offices. The simplicity of this home office is amazing and yet, highly functional – desk for paperwork, some bookshelves and drawers, a bench for visitors and my favorite, a... 

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Mudroom Recipe for Getting Organized

By Tina Gleisner in Laundry & Mud Rooms, Organizing & Storage, Shelving & Storage
organizing your mudroom can be fun & rewarding

Mudrooms are today’s contemporary “family door” as we seldom use the front door. Most of the time we enter the house from the driveway, and that’s not just family members but also neighbors and good friends. They’ll your lead and use the same door you use, a side door through the garage, or a back door.

It makes me wonder at times, why we spend so much money on fancy front doors that rarely get opened … but let’s get back to what it takes to organize your entryway or mudroom so you can find the things you need when you... 

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Creating a Home Command Center for Your Family

By Kathleen Cowley in Home Offices, Organizing & Storage
Keeping your home & belongings is a challenge so time to get organized with a home command center

Home command centers are one of the newest organizing concepts. Our lives are busier than ever and the traditional family dinner where we used to share family news is a thing of the past as we run to and from. It’s easy to toss papers on a kitchen countertop but who knows it’s there, or what needs to get done?

That’s why it’s important to create a “Home Command Center” for your family, so everyone can see at a glance, where others are and what each person needs to get done today. An added benefit is …

On a Clear Day, You... 

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Organizing Tips for Handling Mail & More

By Tina Gleisner in Organizing & Storage
do you need organizing tips for bringing the mail into your home?

Need organizing tips for handling your mail? Each of us has a different approach to  dealing with mail and what’s most important is knowing exactly how you’re going to deal with it when you bring it into the house, i.e. so it doesn’t get added to (or create) another pile of papers.

My husband gets upset when he’s traveling because I don’t pick up the mail. Can’t see why it’s important to race out to the mailbox when 90% of it’s junk mail, 9% are bills which have already been paid (love autopay) and rarely do I get a letter from... 

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Organizing Tips for Paperwork at Home

By Tina Gleisner in Organizing & Storage
organizing tips to keep paperwork under control

Organizing tips mean work, so why should you care? You can hide the papers but not the information or tasks they represent. If you’re procrastinating, you already know it’s not going to be easy getting things under control. Ignoring paperwork can be a disaster — when we moved in March one year, all the tax papers got lost and it took more than 2 years to get caught up with the taxes.

Organizing your paperwork is critical as someday you may have to leave your home with little or no time to prepare.

By finding organizing tips that work for you, you’ll... 

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Kitchen Gadgets for the Holidays?

By Tina Gleisner in Cabinets & Countertops, Kitchen Remodeling, Kitchens & Dining Rooms, Organizing & Storage
kitchen gadgets clutter our kitchen counters

Kitchen gadgets take up a lot of room in our kitchens but how many do we really use? The real question — do we need more kitchen gadgets (small appliances) and especially those we only use once a year unless they save us lots of time?

My confession is my newest kitchen gadget, my Ninja Pulse Blender which I absolutely love. It’s helping me eat (or drink) healthier with a minimum of effort, including cleaning up. It lets me make nutritious shakes in single servings, right in the cup I use to drink the shake and I use it every day!

So... 

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Photo Storage and My BIG Project

By Debra Gilroy in Families & Holidays, Organizing & Storage, Seniors & Empty Nesters

Photo storage takes up lots of space in our homes. I’m talking about old fashion photos like … Poloroids?  I mean the old photos that seemed like magic because they developed right before your eyes?  Putting photos in scrapbooks?  Slideshows of your Aunt Sarah and Uncle Jim’s camping vacation (snooze). Do you have shelves of photo albums or boxes of photos waiting for you to organize in order to free up photo storage space?

Times, they are a changin’, as the saying goes.  Now you can take a photo on your phone and have it seen by hundreds on Facebook a... 

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Recycle E-Waste for a Greener World

By Paris Love in Green Living, Green Living, Green Living, Home Electronics, Organizing & Storage, Recycling & Reuse

Going green is the politically correct, planet saving, proper and valued thing to do these days.  As a productivity and organization expert I often work with clients who are organizing  offices and homes for maximum productivity and who want to recycle unwanted items.

The biggest challenge, as our technology moves forward to quickly, we face the ongoing and growing recycling challenge:  electronic equipment or e-waste.

Scary Statistics on E-Waste

Here are some scary statistics about e-waste, particularly since they are a few years old and we know the electronics world is growing wildly:

“About 2.6 million tons of e-waste ended up in landfills in... 

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Face the Home Paper Management Showdown

By Paris Love in Home Offices, Organizing & Storage, Technology at Home

Have you experienced the paper management challenge — the showdown when you attempt to stare down a desk or tabletop covered in paper, hoping it will organize itself? Or better yet, disappear?  Notes, bills, unopened mail, kids school papers, assignments, contracts and home office documents all piled high or strewn around and covering your work surfaces?

I have, as a professional organizer, a very organized home, yet the paper that comes in, both personal and professional, never ends.  And I absolutely hate looking at messy piles of paper in my home office and my home.  It makes me feel stress, and... 

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Create a kids homework space in your home for your elementary students

By Debra Gilroy in Children's Spaces, Organizing & Storage

Kids homework in early grades still gets the thumbs up from education and children’s development specialists as a critical way to help kids learn to prioritize, be self-disciplined, and learn independence.  This makes providing a workstation for kids homework, essential to both children’s success in school and parental sanity.

But where in your home does this study area belong and how can you make it effective and organized?  For older students in middle and high school, often their bedroom is the best place provided you’ve established some internet rules and blocks.  But younger children require more parental supervision and assistance, and... 

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