Uncluttering/Organizing Home Space
Organizing Your Bathroom
This site has a lot of resources, and you will find that it includes good information on how to organize a bathroom, including information about removing items from the drawers and cabinets, getting rid of outdated products, organizing belongings into plastic bins, and suggests each family member have their own bin. Making use of dead space is key, and organizing things according to use and location. Try using any or all of the following organizing ideas: wall mounted cabinets, carts on wheels, hooks on back of door, shower caddies, coat rack, hanging mesh bag for holding children's bath toys, wall mount hair dryer and curling iron, drawer organizers. Suggests organizing your bathroom annually, so things stay maintained.
Clear Away Clutter as a Path to Healing
Did you know that your environment affects your emotional state as well? As this informative article from About.com points out, when you take the time to go through the clutter in your physical environment, you feel more settled emotionally. Often I have found that when we clean up our surroundings we clear our mental and emotional bodies as well, says the author. She points out that when sort through and get rid of items that don't serve any purpose for you any more, it opens up space around you to be filled with new and better things to make their way into your life. Read through the material here and get inspired to make some positive changes in your own home or office.
Home & Closet Remodeling Forum
This is part of Do It Yourself.com's public forum. This particular discussion thread concerns garage reorganization in a garage susceptible to flooding. Members of the forum offered several suggestions, everything from a pulley system for raising and lowering shelves to putting in a sub floor above the flood line. In addition to the discussion about garage reorganization, click on Closets & Home Organization for a series of forum discussion threads covering such topics as a laundry chute door, removing a filing cabinet drawer, handicap access, and floating shelves. Topics of discussion change frequently, so check in often for other discussion threads or to start a discussion thread of your own and receive potentially helpful advice from others just like you who have "been there, broke that."
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