Cleaning Your Entire House in One Day

Save for a few lucky oddballs here and there, people don’t typically enjoy cleaning, but it has to be done. Even if you detest the actual act of cleaning up the home, you must admit that the rewards are worth it. Of course, you want to get the cleaning process

How to Unclutter your Home and Personal Life

Even though I’ve been out of school for more than a couple of decades now, the arrival of fall still thrills me with the promise of a fresh start and a new school year. Despite the fact that each year, late August finds me mired in piles of unfiled mail and

How to Organize Your Living Room

A living room fits that description: it’s usually the room in the house where most activity happens, from watching TV to visiting with guests to playing with the kids.  Because so much happens there, it is often the messiest room in the house—but because so many guests see it, it’s

How to Organize Your Front Entry

The front entrance is the space that guests see first when they arrive—but it’s also the space where every family member throws their coat, shoes, hats, and anything else they are carrying when they walk into the house. 

How to Organize Your Kitchen

The kitchen receives a lot of traffic in any home and is one of the rooms that is open for guests to see when they visit.  Thus most of us would like to keep our kitchens looking as good as possible at all times.  Here are a few tips for

10 Ways to Reuse Household “Waste”

Waste not, want not, right? But sometimes it’s hard to think up new uses for the most mundane of objects. Here are some of my favorite ways of giving new life to household “waste”; some of these come from around the ‘net, and some come from my very own head.