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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You’d think most families wouldn’t want to organize this close to Christmas, but we’re still busy decluttering and organizing – yep, even in mid-December. And we have no problem with it. Decluttering garages, helping a family declutter in prep of a move, installing Elfa closets and I’ve been doing a fair amount of fine-tuning in […]
Filed in : Kitchen Organization, SO Clients
December 13, 2022
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What’s more to love than a beautiful, newly renovated kitchen? I’ll tell you – a beautiful new kitchen that is professionally unpacked and organized too! Can you believe this kitchen I packed only a few months ago transformed from this… To this… Yep, it’s the same kitchen! And it’s stunning! why should you hire a […]
Filed in : Kitchen Organization, Moving Organization, SO Clients
September 1, 2020
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My aim is always to deliver a highly functional, totally organized, beautiful space that works for the families who hire me. But staying on a budget is something high on the priority list too. Getting organized DOES NOT need to cost a lot of money. If it does, something’s wrong. Unless you’re installing a custom […]
Filed in : Kitchen Organization, Pantry Organization, SO Clients
February 27, 2020
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Happy Monday! Happy FIRST Monday of February! Couldn’t wait to get back to work this morning. In addition to great organizing projects on the books, I’ve recently started an intense online business program. In the last few months I’ve been struggling with a few parts of the business (all the boring not fun stuff that […]
Filed in : Kitchen Organization, Pantry Organization, SO Clients
February 3, 2020
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January 2020….so far, so great! And hope you are finding your new year and month to be the same! Actually, hard to believe we are nearing the END of January. Seriously?! But also believable because I have been completely slammed, which generally makes the days fly right by. My busy schedule is why I haven’t […]
Filed in : Kitchen Organization, Pantry Organization, SO Clients
January 23, 2020
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Nothing gets us more fired up than unpacking busy families in their new homes. And this busy family of 6 is seriously the sweetest. Without sharing too much, this was not a dream build of a new home by any stretch. After a painful 6 years of building issues along with moving from rental to […]
Filed in : Closet Organization, SO Clients
