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.
Sam
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By now I’m sure you’ve figured out that not only do I love to organize, but that I also love to improve spaces, use power tools, and DIY solutions that make an impact for families. Any chance a project comes my way that’s a combo of organizing plus DIY / design…well, it’s a very good day! A […]

Along my 5+ year blogging journey, I’ve been fortunate to develop incredible friendships with fellow bloggers. I’m talking *real* friendships. As in the kind that meet-up in person, talk on the phone, text, travel with and even exchange Christmas cards. And if you can believe it, many of them are within my very own blog niche. You may think bloggers are […]

Garages. Quite literally one of my favorite spaces to dig into and organize. Over the years on the blog I’ve talked a lot about how a garage can transform a home and the way you live in it. Yes, not an interior room – a garage! If structured and organized properly, the space not only provides […]

Not every client project you see around here is on a grand scale. There are actually many small scale projects I complete that make just as significant an impact. I thought I would share a few of those to give you an example of how little updates in organization around your home make all the […]

I know this may be absolutely shocking to some of you (OK, maybe not), but I’m a total sucker for a great DIY project! I’ve done my fair share of them and experienced a lot of positive results, too. Some of my most frequently visited blog posts are those involving DIY projects I’ve shared over […]

Twice a year, my friends Christy & Amy of 11 Magnolia Lane host a series called Operation: Organization. In August we focus on back to school and in January, as you would guess, we focus on the New Year. This is a fun way to see what my fellow bloggers are up to in January as they […]
