Whenever I think my house is a mess where do I start, there are only TWO clear answers and today I’m sharing them with you! Stay on top of these two things, and I promise your house will be feel clean and orderly and will stay that way!
Organizing and Putting Away Christmas in 5 Easy Steps!
It’s only taken me 20 years, but I think I have finally cracked the code for effectively putting away and organizing Christmas. I know. A mere TWENTY YEARS. And today, You Lucky People, I’m sharing it with you so you can maybe figure it out sooner than I did?? Let’s keep this short and sweet […]
Holiday House Tour!
Greetings from my very warm and quiet kitchen (it’s early still;). All the boys are home now from college, and things are rather chaotic here at Chez Lefforge. I am overjoyed with said chaos, however, as it means my boys are all under one roof and we are together! No one prepared me for the […]
Guest Room Closet Makeover!
I don’t think it’s a big secret that organization is kind of my jam. I’ve written about it so often that some of you are rolling your eyes thinking SERIOUSLY, Again?? She’s going to talk about organizing, again?!?! But then there are the REST of you. You know who you are. You dig this stuff […]
Master Bedroom Organization! Reclaim Your Sanctuary
I LOVE organization. I fought it for years because I thought it made me seem inflexible and somewhat OCD to admit, publicly, that I love getting and STAYING tidy and organized. The truth is, I am not naturally that way. I’ve had to LEARN how to be more organized and have found that it’s really […]
Organizing My Way Through Global Chaos
I have always had a deep love for organization. Not as much when I was very young (my mom can tell you horror stories of my room as a child), but, interestingly, once my life became more complex, I found myself drawn to setting up systems that made order possible. Because we live in a […]
My Biggest Organization Challenges
Yes, I feel silly posting about organizing our stuff when so many in the Houston area have lost EVERYTHING. But then again, pretty much everything I tried to write about felt stupid, so we’ll just go with this. If you haven’t already, please consider donating MONEY (not stuff) to a cause you love. The Red […]
The Myth Of The Perfect House
We’ve been looking at houses for awhile now. And there have been lots of them. Lots in person, many, many more online (Trulia and I are besties) and they have, for the most part, been really good homes. But when it comes to home shopping I am a bit of a mystic. I have this […]
Staging a Real House is Not Like Staging a House on HGTV
I am an HGTV junkie. I watch all the shows. And the hosts of the shows are my friends. I hang out with Chip and Joanna and Drew and Jonathan on a regular basis. And I honestly missed Suzanne Wong when she went off the air (if these names aren’t familiar to you it’s OK […]