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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Everyone with small spaces in their home struggles to get them organized…and maintain that organization. And nothing gets more “small space” than the cabinet under your kitchen sink. The kitchen in my new house is very small… While I’m making this cozy little kitchen work hard for me, it was necessary to tackle the […]
Filed in : Kitchen Organization
January 24, 2014
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Each week I receive a lot of organization questions. However, a topic I’m questioned about most often is small space organizing. And nothing gets smaller (or tighter, darker, damper, blah-errr) than the space under your kitchen sink. Why do we always want to pack everything away into this tiny space? No matter how big or […]
Filed in : DIY, Kitchen Organization, Life Tips
January 23, 2014
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Ok…so…here we go again people! Another house…another pantry. Trust me, I can’t wait to have this kitchen remodel completed so that I never have to move another pantry again. Since this is my 4th pantry, and will have a 5th (and I hope final) after the remodel, I guess I’ll have had enough experience organizing […]
Filed in : Kitchen Organization
January 8, 2014
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My kitchen has been a featured space quite a bit. With good reason – it’s the most popular room in the house… And it’s more than just a kitchen… Half of the space is kitchen while the other half serves as a sitting area… A place to eat, color, do arts & crafts or watch sports. A […]
Filed in : Kitchen Organization
September 10, 2012
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With the boys back in school, I’m trying my best during the daytime hours to get as much of the dinner prep done as possible. No brainer – it saves me in those late afternoon hours now that we have some serious second grade homework coming home each night. Once I’ve fed the kids and gotten then […]
Filed in : Kitchen Organization, Life Tips
August 30, 2012
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In our home we have a lovely living room. It’s intended to be a formal living room space but, staying true to our lifestyle and casual California roots, we’ve made this room comfortable. It’s a space for adults and kids. There’s nothing worse than having a beautifully decorated room that you can’t live in because you […]
Filed in : Home Improvement
