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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The last time we spoke about lighting was when I updated all of the old recessed lights with new LED lights… I can’t believe that was all the way back in September! Seems like just last month I updated those lights. Since there has been a lot of lighting updates over the last few […]
Filed in : Home Improvement
February 19, 2014
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Hope you had a wonderful Christmas and are getting ready for some awesome New Year’s plans! Yup, it’s me. Sam. The blogger that disappeared for the last 12 days. Between the kids pre-Christmas school activities, a visit from Southern friends and an overnight in SF, hosting Christmas Eve and Christmas Day here at the new […]
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December 31, 2013
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Let’s just go ahead and call this post what it really is = “more than you ever wanted to know about concrete…and even more than you ever wanted to see!”. Because let’s face the truth here, this girl is over the top excited having half of this driveway completed that I took a thousand photos […]
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December 19, 2013
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During the process of having the house interior painted, my painter removed all of the blinds. When he removed the blinds, he accidentally damaged nearly every plastic clip that secured the blind valances in place. The clips, when secured correctly and not broken, look like this… After my painter came through, this is how 90% […]
Filed in : DIY, Home Improvement
December 16, 2013
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Yup, there were plenty of funny statements conjured up for the title of this post. Even some really lame knock knock jokes. But when it comes down to it, I’m pretty dumb…..Dumb that I waited so long to put door knobs on all of the doors in this house. Yes, since move-in most of the […]
Filed in : Accessory Organization, DIY, Giveaway, Home Improvement, Product Review
December 6, 2013
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Not only am I upsetting my neighbors with the never-ending construction noise, but now also upsetting the California tree huggers. A big redwood tree came timbeeeerrrring down earlier this week. Honestly, I’ve been grieving the tree for the last few days. It was a beautiful redwood, one of at least 8 on the property… It […]
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