DIY 72 Hour Emergency Preparedness Kit
After the storm last weekend in the Northeast, many parts of the area had no electricity or water. When we went to the store to pick up some bottled water- the aisle was empty except for a few small ...
Posts tagged “organizing”
What Would You Do With a Couple of Hours?
Survey
About once a week, our parents come over to watch the baby and we find ourselves with a couple of hours to use as we wish. We always find ourselves torn on how to spend that precious time. ...
Creative NYC Kids Rooms
Time Out Kids
Whether you live in a tiny space or something less modest, there's plenty of inspiration for storage, display and room layout in a recent article in Time Out Kids. They've featured five real kids r...
Before and After: Tater Box Turned Clothesasaurus
The Clothesasaurus is a great predator of the Early Salacious period. It can be found lurking in the bedroom of Sebastian and Ruby (who you may remember from their lovely room tour a while back). Thei...
Using a Hanging Clothes Rack
If you're choosing a place for your nursery but are worried that there is no closet, don't fret. We've found that a closet, while nice, isn't a necessity....
Create an Art Array using Knobs
If you have some prolific little artists at home you may be thinking about ways to display their creations. We really liked the idea of using wire curtain rods, but this knob idea is no less clever...
Wright's Peak Wire Horizontal Storage
We love looking through the Sundance Catalog, and we're especially enamored with the industrial/vintage/farmhouse look they have going on these days. We think it fits in quite nicely with the modern ...
A Place for Wet Shoes
Parts of the country have been seeing lots of snow, so that got us thinking about shoes yet again and some quick DIY ideas for where to put the really wet ones. ...
Reusing Glass Jars
Good Idea
Reusing glass jars for storage in the kitchen and around the house is not a new idea. But here is a small twist on this *free* storage container....
Organizing Photos
So, another one of our organizing goals for this year: sort through the oh, I don't know, FOUR THOUSAND pictures of our daughter! We were drooling over this beautiful system from Michele Bender found...
Another Entryway/Hallway
Our post, Shoes Off, led us to another great entryway makeover from one of our readers. Who would've thought such a clean, streamlined look could be so homey?...
Where's Your Clutter?
Try as we may, every apartment we've lived in seems to have a little closet or extra space we don't really use that becomes the place where other stuff we don't know what to do with goes until it star...
Shoes Off
Roundup
Not to open up the whole Shoes On, Shoes Off debate again, but we rounded up a few ideas for where to keep those shoes if you do take them off. It is winter after all. ...
Baskets on the Stairs
Good Idea
If you live in a multi-story home, you're probably constantly shuttling things back and forth between floors. Here is a twist on the basket at the bottom of the staircase idea....
DIY Book Display
Reader Project
Ohdeedoh reader Hiski wrote in to tell us about her great idea for an easy DIY book display. She told us she was 'inspired by the corner library I saw 30 september on Ohdeedoh, I started seeking for ...
Using Lockers as Baby Closet
Reader Project
So maybe the perfect room for the nursery doesn't have a closet? That didn't stop reader Jaime from making use of these vintage lockers as baby's closet. Jump below to see how she organized them on ...
Make a Simple Mail Sorter
How To
One of our resolutions for the New Year is to get our apartment back in pre-baby shape in terms of organization. Certain areas have fallen by the wayside since our son was born and we're going to t...
Creative Storage Solutions
Best of 2009
Kids have stuff. Lots of stuff. And with the holidays behind us, they probably now have more stuff than ever. Our job as parents is to not just live with all this stuff but also teach our children how...
Flying Hooks
Is it magic or are the Flying Hooks, by Bos & Couvée, just a clever way to get your family to finally hang up their coats and jackets?...
DIY Lazy Susan Craft Station
We love Lazy Susans. There are just so many uses for them, and IKEA has a great Lazy Susan priced at around $5-$7 I believe. Here, a Lazy Susan has been made into an arts and crafts station inspired...
Cast Metal Animal Bookends
Looking for something to help keep those board books standing? We like these bookends in the shape of animals....
How Many Toys Do You Have?
Admittedly, we're kids at heart so often when shopping for toys we like to buy what is fun to us. This contributes to toy overflow in the house, something we're working hard on controlling. But amon...
Oeuf Toy Store Storage
For us, toy storage has to fulfill three goals. It has to make toys easily accessible, without requiring endless (and messy) rooting in the bottom of cavernous toyboxes. It has to be easy enough to us...
Quick Tip: Easy & Accessible Bib Storage
We've came across this unique way to store your bibs for meal time—right on the highchair! It frees up space in your cabinets and drawers and keeps them right where you need them. Where do yo...
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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