Marybeth Santos
Gift Guide: Hostess Gifts for the Home She’ll Love
You know what can be difficult? Figuring out a hostess gift or a housewarming gift or anything home related when you don’t really know what the person has. You can look at this two ways. Get them a gift card (boring) Pick something original, funny, beautiful or all three that will make her smile everytime …
Cleaning Your Messy House: Where to Start
I live in a messy house. You do, too, unless you just showed up here because you’re one of those super neat people and you’re curious what it’s like to live in a messy house. Well, it’s not the worst thing in the world! A messy house is a house where people feel comfortable making …
Home Organization: Where Should I Start?
Are you in that moment where the whole entire house is disorganized and so you just freeze and have no idea where to start? I totally get that. Several years ago I was in that moment and I decided to try the method that Marie Kondo prescribes where you organize every single thing in a …
Home Decorating Rules for a Home That’s All You
Rule #1. Pick one inspiration piece. When you don’t know where to start with a room, pick one thing that you really love and make it your jumping off point. It can be a vase, a painting, a pillow. It can even be a wall color. In my bedroom, I started with the wall color. …
Home Organization Rules For a Tidy, Peaceful Home
#1. Don’t organize a single thing until you Declutter. This one I am really good at following. I enjoy decluttering. I enjoy getting stuff I don’t use out of the house. If you try to move on to the next steps of organization before you are fully decluttered, you’ll feel overwhelmed. It will feel like …
Cleaning Rules That Will Help You Love Your Home
Rule #1. Start at the top. This one is kind of a no brainer, I know. But don’t wash your lower cabinets before your uppers. Don’t wash the floor of the tub before you wash the sides. Don’t wash floors before you wash walls. Why? Gravity. All the mess you cleaned from up above is …
Genius Home Organization Projects To Get You Motivated to Organize
Sometimes you need a little kick in the pants to do something you don’t want to do. For me, Home Organization Projects are one of those things I just don’t feel like doing without some outside force telling me I really should. Sometimes that outside force is some beautiful inspiration from Pinterest. Sometimes it’s all …
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Home Organization On Screen: Binge Watch Your Way to a Tidy Home?
I can’t say for sure which came first, my love for making a comfortable, unique home or my love for HGTV. I have to think it’s my love for making a comfortable, unique home but HGTV has definitely played a part in helping me bring that to life. That got me thinking. Because we know …
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Entryway Organization Ideas That Just Make Sense
Whenever Fall rolls around I think about tidying up my entry closet. I don’t know why. No one uses it. I mean, the backs of chairs are so much easier for tossing your jacket and backpack onto, right? Who has time to go twist a doorknob and take out a hanger? NO ONE! JK. Everyone …