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!
Guess what? The house interior is completely painted – including the garage. Yup = truth. Not sure what I’m most excited about… a. The fact this job (which took one full month to complete) is finally over and done with b. The fact that I’m head over heels in love with the colors/paint finish and […]

While there is plenty going on here at the rental house – a-hem… …There’s a flurry of activity happening at the new house too! Have entered the longest stretch in which I haven’t been at the house. Am itching to be there in person to snap progress photos. Alas, I have to rely […]

One of the first hands-on organization projects on my list at the new house? Installing closet organizers. I couldn’t wait too. Why? because it wasn’t only the install of closet organizers, but the install of desperately needed closet organizers. It’s simply amazing to me what a fresh coat of paint and a beautiful sparkling new closet […]

Yup. Gunite. Who knew there was such a thing? As soon as my pool guys said “we’ll be guniting while you’re at the house” I immediately hopped over to google to investigate. Basically, gunite is a process of spraying concrete into the pool to make the inner form. What? You mean the pool wouldn’t look […]

Welcome to my new California house! So excited to share this before tour. It’s taken me a while to get this up on the blog because I live 2000 miles away from the house. Tough getting those great real camera shots when I’m not living in the state. While I was there last week, I […]

my moving binder has turned out to be one of the best tools I created and organized for myself. It has been my organization BFF since the fall when i put the house on the market. It helped me through the process of selling the house and then helped me stay organized through the move […]
