Your Organized Home

Kitchen Organization - How to Arrange Your Pantry and Fridge

(Guest Post: Carrie Tyler)

The kitchen is one area of the home that can truly benefit from reorganization. It will make cooking and clean up easier and you can even save money thanks to knowing exactly what you need to pick up at the grocery store. When you go to organize your kitchen, you'll want to schedule a day or two to arrange the pantry, refrigerator, and freezer optimally.

Cool Do-It-Yourself Projects with IKEA Hacks

Are you a closet DIYer?  Do you like to make things for your home or office?  If you are like me, you may like to "hack" things more than make them from scratch. 

What is a hack? A "hack" is when you take something and make it into something else. 

What is IKEA? The store IKEA is a world-wide company that offers a "wide range of well-designed, functional home furnishing products at prices so low that as many people as possible will be able to afford them."  Their designs are very utilitarian most of the time, but high quality in workmanship.

So, an IKEA Hack takes IKEA products and modifies them for form, function or design to work for what the user needs in their space.  If this is of interest to you, check out the blog IKEA Hacker.  IKEA Hacker shows you how to transform IKEA stuff and takes hacks from all across the globe to feature.  Check out the link below for great ideas.

http://ikeahacker.blogspot.com/search/label/storage

Thanks!! to @lisamurphyTO, @chrissychrzan and @tinkugallery for sharing this site!

Kitchen in Tip Top Shape

The kitchen is often the most used room in the house, and the price of an unorganized kitchen can be high. Lots of wasted time looking for items and money wasted purchasing duplicates can add up to a lot of unwanted stress. But the payoff can be big and the best place to start your kitchen organizing project is the pantry.

Organize your drawers in the office and kitchen

What does your kitchen "junk drawer" look like?  What about your office desk?  Rubbermaid has a great blog that talks about how to organize different spaces in your home and office.  Recently, there was a post on using a silverware sorter to organize things other than silverware.

That reminded me of a personal project I had done a while back. . .

Could you find what you wanted in the drawer to the right? 

I couldn't either!  So here is what I did about it.

Save Time!! Grocery Shopping Can be a Breeze!

I have a confession to make.  I cannot stand to go grocery shopping!  I never have liked it.  It is not logical, but it is true.  So, I have found a way around it!  Want to get out of your grocery shopping too?  Read on to learn about how I saved hours every week!

Cabinets - Make them Work for You

Does this look organized to you?  (you can click on the image to make it bigger.)  For some, it looks like a jumbled mess and for others this looks quite neat.  My vote?  It is organized.  Remember, organization is about finding what you need, when you need it, with little effort. 

So, why do I say this cabinet works?  I know because it is a picture taken of a cabinet in my kitchen!  Our family enjoys a number of hot beverages.  This cabinet is located by our microwave and the sink.  The two items we use the most when preparing our coco, coffee, tea, etc.  So, this cabinet is organized to house all of the items we will need to make those drinks.  Keep reading to understand some of the odd looking things you see in the cabinet!