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
It’s go time!
I realize some of you in the colder regions of the US may be scratching your head about this one. Yup, I know it’s January. But guess what? I live in California now and at any point during the year in Cali you never know when you can hop into your swimming pool. So why […]

Or should the title say “we’re finally pool safe and can walk around without tripping over brick piles”? Seriously though, last time we spoke about the pool / yard, the pool was completed and ready for swimming. However, the brick patio was in shambles and we were nowhere close to allowing the kids in the […]
