Closet Organizing Tips from the Container Store
Just when you finally had your own closet organized...you had a baby. And as it turns out, there's a whole other plane of organization necessary when it comes to baby stuff. There are just a few thi...
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Personalized Hanger for Children
No wire hangers ever! Never say never, especially when wire hangers are as cute as these....
Maxwell's Tips on Smart Storage for Kids' Stuff
Maxwell recently gave an interview all about kids and smart storage. He kicks it off with an observation: "Children, more so than adults, are natural collectors of stuff. Parents should not be surpri...
Space-Saving Idea: Built-In Beds
We often tout bunkbeds as a small-space solution for a shared room, but what if your wall height doesn't allow for bunks? Built-ins are a great idea, as evidenced here. Being closer to the wall, they ...
Gift Bag Storage
Some items just don't store well. We usually use basic brown kraft paper and ribbon for wrapping gifts, but we receive many of our gifts in gift bags. We recently received a whole bunch for our daug...
Family Calendar by Miriam Bereson
After two consecutive weeks of missed dental appointments (lesson learned: never schedule appointments for first thing Monday morning), I'm at the point with my increasingly busy family where I need t...
Kitchen Organization: A Drawer of Their Own
We've been so inspired by Sharilyn and her blog LovelyDesign. Most recently she posted some pictures that got us thinking about kitchen organization....
Agnes Toy Box
Part toy box, part table, part play structure -- the Agnes toy box is an ingenious piece that is as fun as it is multifunctional. With its various drawers, cubbyholes and cubes within cubes, it can ho...
A Tree Becomes a Book Becomes a Tree
We love to see great looking and creative tree branch shelves for the nursery. This new tree bookshelf by designer/artist Shawn Soh really fits the bill....
Inspiration: Big Toy Storage for Big Toy Collections
We field a lot of questions about how to manage burgeoning collections of stuffed toys, so when we saw this gorgeous stadium-style modular storage system in a model nursery created by designer Nicolet...
Streamlining the Morning Routine
It's our first year of preschool and we made it through the first week with little drama. To keep things running smoothly, we've instituted a new way of organizing our preschoolers outfits to minimiz...
How To: Clothesline Hair Clip Holder
When we saw this framed fabric clothesline at Nested we just thought it was super adorable. The fact that it can be used as functional organization for hair clips was just the frosting on the cake....
Landing Strip For Kids
Coming home from long walks, errands and the playground always means a souvenir or two picked up along the way. Sometimes it's a wildflower, some acorns, or an egg-shaped rock. But where to place te...
Giant Sharpener Desk Tidy
Help your child tidy up their desk -- and get a chuckle while doing it -- with this kooky cool desk tidy. Tidy!...
Jewelry Organizers
If your teen or tween daughter is anything like me, chances are you find her jewelry all over the house. A set of earrings on the coffee table, a ring on the kitchen counter, a watch on the arm of th...
Look! A 25 Year Old Pez Collection
My husband has been collecting Pez since he was little. Just out of diapers, they were his special treat whenever he would accompany his mother to the grocery store. Sure, there's been many that we...
Taming Your Toy Collection
It's a topic we have to come back to again and again because a home with kids will always have toy "build-up." The most important thing is to have some strategy for dealing with it. We found a few f...
Look! Creative Wall Hook Decor
Jackie and Joe, the owners of this Washington, DC home, cleverly repurposed hooks found throughout their old house into decor. They carefully hung the wall hooks throughout the entryway and kitchen. ...
Stash Organizer by Boon
Stash - the name says it all. We're enthusiastic about this well-designed organizer by Boon. Use it to store and organize your feeding accessories in the kitchen, baby toiletries in the bathroom, or...
Organized Trip Packing
Doesn't it always seem like with each day you're away, the suitcase gets messier and messier? And usually by the time we are ready to pack up to go home, we can't figure out how everything fit in the...
Small Space Living: Where to Store Ride-On Toys?
At some point in a baby's life, he will want mobility above everything else. (Of course, we know that desire will continue well into the teen years!) We shied away from buying ride-on toys for a lon...
Playroom Organization: Photo Labels for the IKEA Expedit
While we don't have a playroom, we do use bins in an Ikea Expedit for storing our son's clothing. The bins take up most of the shelf so it's hard to see inside and our husband is constantly complai...
Peg Rails from Period House
We really like the clean and classic look of Shaker peg rails. They're a great solution for storage if you always find members of the family are leaving their coats or bags lying around. The Period...
Eina Storage Bench
A couple of years ago, when we were creating a play area in our home, this storage bench from Ikea was exactly what we were looking for. Too bad it didn't exist then. If, like us, you're looking for r...
Tips for Paring Down
We saw our neighbor's flyer for a garage sale last weekend. They had listed all manner of things that piqued our interest - baby toys, books, furniture and gear. Then we realized, we were on the wro...
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