Hi, I'm Sam—a Certified Professional Organizer® based in the San Francisco Bay Area and the voice behind Simply Organized. This blog has been my passion project since 2010, and it's where I get to share everything I've learned from organizing hundreds of homes. You'll find real strategies that work in real life, honest product recommendations, project transformations, and the organizing philosophy that guides all my work: maintainable over perfect. Let's create a home that works beautifully for how you actually live.
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Ok, so…I recognize that post title is like whoa, what?! But this was a serious issue, friends. Here I spent months and months planning out the details of my home office. Only to have a serious issue I was completely not expecting pop up and throw me for a loop. Check it… For those following […]
Filed in : DIY, Home Improvement, Office Organization
November 6, 2017
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As you may know, over the last few months I’ve been focusing on home improvement projects around my own home. The biggest undertaking this summer being the updated brick path and concrete pad in the backyard… While my concrete contractor was here, I asked if he could add on a small slab just outside this […]
Filed in : DIY, Home Improvement, Outdoor Organization
October 20, 2017
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Hello hello! Been a while since you’ve seen a post. Life has been busy busy and full – all good things. There’s much to update, but here’s a quick list as to where I have been. A big shout out to my planner for helping me remember exactly what has been happening over the last 5 […]
Filed in : Home Improvement, Office Organization, Simply Organized Style
October 10, 2017
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A tutorial is coming soon about my new love affair with AirDrop. You guys, this is changing everything for me. If only you could take a peek into my iPhone photo app. Ha! It’s full of cluttered and beautiful images. Always interesting when someone asks to see a photo of my kids or a girls […]
Filed in : Closet Organization, DIY, Kid Organization, School Organization, SO Clients
August 21, 2017
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Once upon a time, there was an organizing blogger who occasionally shared home improvement projects, how-to’s and tutorials. *looks around* Oooohhhh, there she is! Feels good to head back to my old blog roots! Been way too long since I’ve worked on (and shared) a good home improvement project. And it’s definitely showing around this house. Now, admittedly […]
Filed in : DIY, Home Improvement, Personal, Simply Organized Style
May 19, 2017
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In my professional organizing career, I’ve taken on several spaces in which Elfa was the perfect solution to the problem. But last week, with the help of my local Container Store install team, we knocked out what is certainly The Ultimate Elfa Closet Transformation in my portfolio. What made it the ultimate? I can’t believe this before / […]
Filed in : Closet Organization, DIY, Kid Organization, SO Clients
