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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After a long carefree kid-filled summer, I typically receive several “refresh me” requests. This post-summer season has been filled with pantry refresh appointments and we’ve had the best time revisiting our sweet families to hear their summer chronicles! As a professional organizer who designs and individualizes each and every space for the family / their […]
Filed in : Kitchen Organization, Pantry Organization, SO Clients
September 10, 2019
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The summer schedule with kids at home has made hands-on organizing work a little slower. Doesn’t mean work isn’t happening behind the scenes. I’ve been working on a few company partnerships, designing spaces, and fine-tuning business stuff. I’ve also been digging into the archives to finally share projects from years back – and the client […]
Filed in : Closet Organization, DIY, Kid Organization, SO Clients
July 24, 2019
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This one is short and sweet, but impactful and enlightening. It’s a lesson in, “You may think you need a new closet system…but in fact, you just need to declutter, girl!”. We can pretty much go ahead and end this post on that note. But I wouldn’t dare leave you hanging. I do have a […]
Filed in : Closet Organization, SO Clients
July 14, 2019
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This Spring we had the incredible pleasure of helping several couples and families get unpacked / settled into temporary apartments and rental homes. These couples and families live here only part of the year as they are professional baseball players/families. Client names are held in strict confidence – always – but if you know me, […]
Filed in : Closet Organization, SO Clients
July 3, 2019
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Last week when I shared this beautiful master closet project… I couldn’t believe I had yet to share her organized office / craft closet. In the beginning of the closet post I recapped a few other spaces I organized in her home. As I was digging through the online portfolio to link / find images […]
Filed in : Closet Organization, DIY, Office Organization, SO Clients
April 26, 2019
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Today I’m sharing yet another project completed back in Fall of 2017. It was seriously one of my favorites for a whole bunch of reasons – the transformation is so incredible you won’t believe it. Or that it took only 5-6 hours to complete. Mean it! But it’s mainly one of my faves because of […]
Filed in : Closet Organization, Decluttering, SO Clients
