How To Waste Less This Year
Happy New Year, everyone! As always, the new year is a great opportunity for a fresh start and to get organized! I always say the easiest way to get organized is to have less stuff. Why not challenge yourself to get organized by being more sustainable? There are so many resources at our finger tips these days that can impact not only your home and daily functioning, but your carbon footprint as well! Read along for 10 ways that you can make a difference (big or small) while getting organized.
How to Host a Housewarming Party
Moving into a new space can be stressful, but also incredibly exciting and fun. You have an opportunity to start fresh with decor, storage, and systems. For organizers, facilitating a move-in is such a treat!
10 Stylist-approved Closet Organization Tips to Live by
Over the course of my almost 15-year styling career, I've reviewed, edited and organized hundreds of closets. Each was unique in its own way - just like the clients who curated them. But, my approach to making sense of them has always been the same.
7 Things I’ve Learned After Becoming a Professional Organizer
If we haven’t met or you don’t know my story, I found The Little Details and Stasia like a lot of us do, passing by our studio on Mass Ave! I quickly went online (on my phone before I even made it home from my morning walk) and was intrigued. Considering I won “most organized” as my yearbook superlative, you could imagine my excitement when I found TLD around the corner from my apartment. After a few interviews and trial runs with the team, here we are today! I’m sharing 7 things I’ve learned since my professional organizing journey began.
Our Favorite Organizing Products
Today we’re giving you all the deets on what everyone wants to know: What are our favorite organizing products? Although we fully believe a lot goes into product recommendation (you know the drill-sort, purge, assign, THEN contain), some things can’t be beat! Measuring your space is an important step, too. This blog post is not sponsored, but most recommendations are from The Container Store.
How to Organize Your Underwear Drawer
Happy Fall! As the cooler weather starts to set in and you’re thinking about switching over your summer wardrobe to fall, add your underwear drawer to the to-do list!
5 Tips for Creating an Organized Entryway
September is a great time to fall back into a routine. Things get crazy and carefree over the summer, so restoring a bit of chaos is always a good feeling as summer winds down and routines pick up again. A place we always love to start organizing in a home is the entryway. It is a high-traffic area; everyone in the family passes through multiple times a day. It can easily become a drop-zone, turned into a pile, turned into… a mess. Let’s get you organized and make your entryway feel welcoming!
5 Occasions You Should Hire a Professional Organizer
Thinking about hiring a professional organizer but not sure if it’s the right time? Here are 5 times we deem it absolutely necessary to call in some support. Professional organizers can immediately help relieve stress whether you’re in a major life transition, moving, or just too busy to do it yourself.
How To Pack A Cooler
Are you dreaming of a beach day? Contemplating a long hike, or planning a camping trip? Stay fueled and hydrated and pack up your cooler with your favorite treats. But don’t just throw everything in a thermal bag as you are rushing out the door! Here are our favorite tips for creating an organized cooler for your fun summer trips.
Ditch & Donate Challenge: Part 2
If you’re reading this, you’ve made it to part two of our Ditch & Donate Challenge. Congrats! Reminder, we’re challenging you to let go of one item per day. Just ONE per day. You can purge more per category each day, but we're starting with letting go of 14 items total. Hopefully, you'll gain momentum and feel inspired to keep going. If nothing else, your house will have 14 fewer items in it. Guess what - that's still a win!
How To Organize Your Party Supplies
I’m sure we’ve all been guilty at different times of having a ton of leftover party supplies. I’m talking themed plates, banners, balloons, colorful plasticware, the infamous party hat (does anyone ACTUALLY look good in those?). While “there’s always next year” now is the time to crack down on what you have and be realistic in what you’re keeping. Let’s break it down here.
Ditch & Donate Challenge: Part 1
Does organizing your entire home feel too daunting? Feel like you need a whole weekend to make progress? Sick of staring at clutter?
This challenge is for you.
Over the next two weeks, we challenge you to let go of one item per day. Just ONE per day. You can purge more per category each day, but we're starting with letting go of 14 items total. Hopefully, you'll gain momentum and feel inspired to keep going. If nothing else, your house will have 14 fewer items in it. Guess what - that's still a win!
Moving Kits: Everything You Need to do for a Successful Move
Feeling stressed and overwhelmed about your upcoming move? House on the market and ready to read about next steps? Even if you’re staying put, you’ll always have friends who need your help moving. Our kit below goes over everything to be ready to go come move day!
Whoa Baby! How To Plan A Baby Shower
As we approach Mother’s Day we think about all of our Moms and the Mama’s-To-Be. If you know someone that is getting close to their due date or even months out, then you’re in luck. Today’s blog post is all about how to plan and organize the best baby shower.
Laundry Room Organization
Does anyone else’s laundry room look like a mini tornado? Okay, a full-blown tornado? Maybe you’ve decided to shut the door and worry about more important things. Unfortunately, the time always comes around where you need to tackle laundry day. It can definitely be overwhelming, but with an organized space and a touch of decor, it can be a breeze.
How To Organize Your TV Console
One zone of the house that can often become undone is the TV console. This area may be frequently used and because of that the mindset could be “why put everything away if I’m going to revisit it again tomorrow.” Unfortunately that can lead to the area become more and more disorganized, with a bigger clean up rather than consistently putting the area back together after each use. Want to find out ways you can organize your console? Keep reading.
How To Organize Your Hair Accessories
As many of us know, it’s easy for your hair accessories to look as out of control as when we haven’t washed our hair in a few days…perhaps worse. If you look at Pinterest, you can find a ton of DIY activities to help organize your bows, headbands, curling irons, etc. Here are some suggestions that we have for you!
How to Fall in Love with Organizing: Valentine’s Day Edition
Valentines Day is approaching and whether you’re single or not, now is a great time to fall in love- with organizing! We’re a month into our New Years resolutions and if organizing is on your list, let’s keep it a priority! They say it takes 30 days to turn something into a habit, so why not start now. Let us help you!
5 Areas You Can Organize In A Jiffy
Organizing is a domino effect. Once you start organizing one area, you can easily get suckered into doing more. Although that is one thing we love about organizing, some areas of the house can take days, weeks or even months to get done. Sometimes you only have a small window of time, but are in the mood to be productive and tackle a small area. We’re going to give you some tips and suggestions on where those areas are and how to start!
How to Create a Gift Wrapping Station
Welcome to the most wonderful time of the year! With Thanksgiving behind us, the holidays are right around the corner. As you prepare for gift giving this holiday season, let’s make sure that you have your gift wrapping station in order to do so.