There is no right or wrong way to organize your closet, but there are ways to make it work for you. I have friends who keep all of their clothes out year round (you do have to have a large enough closet for that) so that they can wear items year round (think sweater over a summer dress in the cold months). Some people like to organize by color and/or type of clothes or like to create a capsule wardrobe, while others like to have a large variety of clothes to choose from. Some like to purge clothes every other season or year while others will try to make items…

This year, I am focusing on making small changes at home to make some little improvements to toy organization as well as closet organization. I want to streamline a few things, reduce the clutter and the number of things we have laying around the house. I started as soon as the year started and I am sure we continue to declutter throughout the year as we can always do with less. The boys had 3 tubs under their bunkbeds with legos and really didn’t play with the legos unless those tubs were out. I had the boys help me greatly reduced the number of legos we kept and we sold…

My favorite floor is our house is our first floor: when we moved to our house 3 years ago, we decided to use our old couch in the media/game room upstairs and we sold our dining table. That meant we were buying some new furniture, furniture we chose as a couple versus using hand me down from our family or when we were single. We love our farmhouse table (which we found on Craigslist), our little buffet tables that we found at a local shop and our leather couch which gives a nice contrast to that furniture. My husband made a set of barndoors for his mom’s room so everything…