Teenaged Girl's Bedroom in Scandinavian Design

It has been several months since we redesigned my teenaged daughter's bedroom for her birthday, but I wanted to share how lovely it turned out. It's difficult to get into her room and photograph these days, as she is now homeschooled and spends an enormous amount of time in her room, and more specifically on her bed! If you've been following me for any time now, you may remember that we re-did her bedroom a few years ago! She is now a full fledge teenager and has very specific design ideas and so for her 14th birthday, I told her we could redecorate her room. It has been FIVE years and she's a lot different at 14 then she was at 9 years old! Here is what her room looked like before:

Organizing Those Awkward Small Spaces in an RV + Giveaway

I was give product and compensated by

Tidy Living to share my awesome organizing experience. 

We have been vacationing again in our RV/motor home {have you seen our incredible made over RV?}, and  I can't wait to show you some great ideas for small space organizing in THERE, but also in your own small space at home that you can get ideas for! PLUS, I've got an amazing giveaway that YOU can enter to organize your own space! 

I Hate Packing and 10 Reasons I'm Learning to Like it Again!

I was given compensation from EzPacking to share with you my experience with their amazing product that will make you a much happier packer, too! Plus, I've got a great coupon code for OMF readers...so read on!

If there ever was something I'm happy to share with you, it's that I hate packing. I'm not exactly sure what makes it so awful - perhaps it's the idea that I can't fit everything in that I want or the not knowing what to wear or maybe just the having to put outfits together and not knowing what "mood" I'll be in when I get there. Do you feel my pain? Maybe not, but packing is just one of those dreaded things for me. Funny thing is, my husband can pack in like 5 minutes - well, he actually likes ME to do his packing but he can pick out all his clothes in 5 minutes. Anyway, I digress...

Bringing Out the OCD in Me!

I admit, I'm not really OCD - or the typical perfectionist who needs things perfectly put in a certain way, but I know I have many readers who do! I know that it's important that things are just so - you won't get me to tell you that but I like when things are in order and look pretty! Today I have a product I'm sharing with you and a giveaway! Let me share it with you...

Organizing Seasonal Clothing

I'm over here sweating in our 90+ degree weather this week here in Southern California and some of you on the east coast are floating away - we are longing for some rain, but wow! Well, I really don't ever have to change out my clothes for "seasons" since we are lucky to get a couple of weeks of chilly "winter-like" weather here. But, Jill, my professional organizer guest, definitely knows how to deal with changing out season clothing and keep it organized! 

How to Organize a Dresser Drawer of Clothes

To be quite honest with you, I do not believe that everyone must organize the same way or that your drawers have to look a certain way. But, I can at least show you a few ways that I organize my drawers and some other options to give you ideas that will work for you. 

Perfectly Organized? What?

Have you ever looked at these beautiful magazine pictures, Pinterest photos, Instagram photos, and felt like you just couldn't measure up to that? Like, it's so PERFECT, I can never do that. Let me give you a dose of reality today and encourage you! I LOVE encouraging you! You see, those are staged!

Organized Closet Trends

Closets are an essential that we all need and have. Having an organized closet is even more important since, of course, we want to keep organized - and have fun too! I was asked by The Container Store and Zillow Digs to share some amazing and fun closet trends with you at one of my favorite places to shop for all things organized - The Container Store! I currently own FOUR closet organizers that I purchased at The Container Store - one each year the first few years we lived in our current home - all our closets that are unique and totally different uses. So, I feel like I have a pretty good grasp on what it takes to have an organized closet, plus being a little trendy too! {Be sure to click over for a chance to learn how to win a $5000 closet makeover - YES, $5000 closet makeover!!!}. 

I'm going to show you two different closets in our home and how I've updated them to be "on trend" and kick them up a notch! The first is my daughter's closet and the other is my master closet.

11 Ways to Organize with Towel Rods

If you haven't figured it out by now, I LOVE getting creative and finding cheap ways to organize! So, today I've found 11 ways to organized with something probably everyone has in their house - towel rods! Check these amazingly inexpensive and simple ways you can use them to organize - be sure to pin this so you don't forget too!

RV Organizing and Storage Hacks {Small Spaces}

It all began innocently enough...borrowed an RV for a vacation that was "different" than we had before, and turned into our absolute love for RVing! So, maybe you don't own an RV or have never had any kind of interesting "glamping" desire, but keep with me here. I have come up with some small space - like an RV, too - organizing and storage hacks from our brief six months of owning our own RV. I think that these will definitely help you think outside the box. And, if you have a friend who RVs or you are thinking about it in the future, pin this post and pass it on! Here are my hacks for getting the most use of a small space in your {home or} RV.

15 MORE Simple and Easy Organizing Ideas

Organizing Ideas are so much fun to share and to see! Aren't they? It's like the most simple things sometimes just spark motivation, knowing you can do something simple, like these ideas I've posted on Instagram, that you can do to organize your home and life.

How Do You Organize Light Bulbs?

Am I the only person who struggles trying to keep my lightbulbs in a somewhat organized manner? I mean, they are a mess. You feel obligated to keep them in the most odd shaped boxes and containers and then they just spill out all over the place, right? At least, that's what I've experienced.

25 of My Best Organizing Hacks!

What is a "hack" - as in organizing hack? It's modifying or customizing everyday {organizing} ideas to improve their functionality. So, I thought that showing you the best organizing hacks that I've ever done would be a fun way to start the year! Here are 25 of them!

Updated Office and an Organized Closet

Earlier this week, I shared with you how I deal with my husband's clutter. I got a LOT of great feedback and many of you are struggling with this. I hope it encouraged you! Today, I'm going to share my husband's closet - which I showed you a couple of years ago - but I've got better lighting, slightly better camera skills, and other ideas for helping him to keep organized in his closet that I didn't do a few years ago.

Is It Time to Clean Out Your Closet?

This post is sponsored by ThredUP but all opinions are 100% my own. 

Are you constantly looking at your closet and trying to figure out how you can fit any more in it? Or do you KNOW you have outfits in there that you just don't ever wear, but you feel like you paid a lot of money for them so you MUST hang on to them?

11 Ways to Organize Flip Flops

It's summer. Your feet are hot, they want to wear sandals and flip flops, right? But your closet may not be handling all the mess of flip flops so well...

Organizing those Summer things in your closet!

My closet is one of my favorite "projects" I've done in our home. About six years ago, I saved up and bought myself the most wonderful closet organizer to totally get my closet working for me. I took off the doors of the closet and put curtains on instead. Why?

11 Ways to organize your purse

Whether you own one or two dozen purses, you need to organize the purses and the contents inside of them in order to keep organized in much of your life. It might sound dramatic, but having an unorganized purse can become quite a drag on your everyday life. I'm going to share 11 ways to organize your purse, both inside and out!

Helping with a closet!

Today I'm helping out  my assistant, Shannon! You see, she and her hubby sold their condo about 9+ months ago...then, were shot down trying to find house after house. Until they finally found this one. They have been living with her in-laws for almost the whole time - and during that time she had another baby! But, this house has much work to be done on it before they can move in...including their closets! That's where I'm being "neighborly" and helping them out with their master closet!

Here is how their closet looks now! We used a simple wire closet organizer that you can purchase at your local Ace Hardware or online. It wasn't expensive, but it's strong and sturdy and looks great when organized with their clothing. They have a pretty small closet, so we figured out the best way to give them the most space. 

Here you can see before and after. You can see that they have a lot more hanging space now then they did - along with a nice coat of paint - and it functions well. Even for a simple closet organizer, adding matching wood hangers and a small shoe organizer really helps the closet to look great. They plan to keep the doors off, which I think really helps to open up your room and make it appear a little larger.

If you can keep a fairly neat closet, it really does give the illusion your room is bigger. I do the same in my own master closet. They are now able to keep the upper doors off the top of their closet as well since we put in these great cubby containers - the top goes way back to store extra clothing or linens and these go in front for more things that need to get to more regularly. It looks really great!

She has skirts and slacks and pants on the bottom and will add more as they move into their home soon. 

There's long hanging and blouses and her hubby's work shirts on the top, along with some of her sweaters on the top shelf - which here in Southern California we don't need too much of, but we like to pretend we have "cold" weather!

And we fit some of her shoes in there too. 

Since it's such a tiny closet, she'll have to rotate her clothes seasonally, but behind the cubby containers is a bunch of space she can use for storing those seasonal clothes. 

Doesn't their closet look great?

 

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31 Days of Spontaneous Organizing - Day #7: Shoes

Today is Day #7 of 31 days of spontaneous organizing! You're going to get those shoes organized today! Now, I understand that some of you may put your shoes in a closet - which is how I do it - but some may have them in a mudroom or closet at the front entry. Doesn't matter, just get them organized and cleaned up.