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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I’ve missed sharing simple and easy cleaning tips with you guys…and this one comes just in time for summer. Oooooookay, more like “middle of the” summer. Or maybe July 18 is more like closer to the end of summer for you. Heck, maybe you’ve run out of ideas and the kids are at each other’s […]
Filed in : Cleaning Tips
July 18, 2015
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As you may have noticed, blog posts around here slowed down a bit over the last few months. Not because I want it that way and it’s certainly going to change with a more relaxed summer schedule. (I have some really fun projects to share this week, matter of fact!) So what exactly is keeping […]
Filed in : Product Review
June 29, 2015
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Have I mentioned I love my job? What I love even more is meeting new people with new challenges and helping them get organized. This precious family of 3 renovated their home a short time ago and not only is it stunning, it’s a smart home. This is a classic case of undergoing a renovation, […]
Filed in : Kitchen Organization, SO Clients
April 24, 2015
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If you’ve been reading the blog a while, you know I have a very small kitchen. Small as in “17 feet long x 4 feet wide” of kitchen. Let’s go ahead and say it’s basically a hallway. And the kids treat it as such…which has become a challenge when I open an appliance door and […]
Filed in : Kitchen Organization
March 29, 2015
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When I’m working with clients, we tackle organization in the moment. As we work through a space, I’m paying attention to what needs to be contained as we near the end of a session. This generally means I’m shopping around their home for containers. My goal is to finish the space and have everything contained […]
Filed in : Kitchen Organization, SO Clients
March 18, 2015
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To say I’m fired up about the end result of my new, temporary kitchen floors would be an understatement. Remember this awful brown tile floor?… Well, I can happily say it’s “buh-bye” and I’m all “hellooooo”… Now, you may be wondering why I’m calling this a temporary floor – so let’s start there. This little […]
Filed in : DIY, Home Improvement
