Organizing your closet needs as much storage as possible. You can’t just have all your items in one box. There should be divisions, shelves and drawers available. These storages will allow you to categorize everything that you need to place in your closet.

If you feel you need more storage, here are some ideas on how to find hidden storage in your reach-in closet:

Hidden Storage Trick: Move up the bars

The purpose of this idea is to have available space below for some clothes. This can maximize the space at the bottom by elevating the bars high enough for you insert the clothes for hanging. Then, pile up some clothes or accessories below. Maintain a pleasant arrangement by having it stack according to type, color or style. We love these closet organizers from the Container Store.

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Closet Organization Trick: Stack clothes higher

It will help you maximize the space if you choose to pile your clothes high. The elevation will allow you to occupy as much space as possible without leaving a space behind. But you have to make sure that you arrange your thing properly to avoid clutter as you take them away. You can have the frequently used things on top for easy access. Just like pantry storage in your kitchen when you install more shelves?

Hidden Storage Idea: Use boxes to save space

This idea is not just for your shoes but for accessories as well. Having storage boxes for these items will definitely provide better accessibility and pleasant look in your closet. Make sure to get a storage box that can fit in your closet and can be stacked or joined together.

Make the best of the available space in your closet by following these ideas.

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Home Office Ideas For The Office Entrance

Well, I won’t go overboard with Christmas Decor at my home office, however, I wouldn’t leave it out either. Beginning at the entrance, I would love to include planter boxes draped in a Christmasy attire. Either I would have bright red planter boxes with green and white foliage, else I would add loads of  Pine cones, Christmasy foliage and ball buntings in my usual planter boxes.

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A Pin Board For Christmas

An office pinboard in the garb of holidays! I just love the idea. You can pin stuff like Christmas motifs, Christmas cards, Postcards and other paper craft. This for me is a subtle way to spell Christmas in your home office. You can even incorporate your children’s Christmas craft assignment.

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Home Office Ideas: Bring the Holidays In 

A Holiday Themed Wall

Instead of limiting the holiday theme to the office pin board, you could have a Holiday themed wall where you could just stick your Holiday crafts. Use the colors of Christmas, like reds, greens and whites in the scheme and complement them with yellows, mustards and blues. This for me is a rather fresh Home Office Idea that shouts Christmas.

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Office Window Decor

Use the window sills to display Christmas goodies. Stretch your imagination, think out of the box and bring Christmas to your window. You could experiment with wintery color schemes and incorporate the elements of Christmas. White looks gorgeous in the windows, so reminiscent of White Christmas.

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Holiday Motifs On your Work Station

That is where we spend most of our time, don’t we. Bring in small reindeers, candy sticks, dummy gifts(or even real ones), mini Christmas trees and bathe in the festive spirit.

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Christmas fever is contagious, nothing is left behind, leave alone your little home office. Bring in the spirit of Christmas in every nook and corner of your home. These Home Office Ideas for Holidays are all pointing towards that. Enjoy holidays, even at work. It would be great to hear about how you plan to decorate your home office for Christmas. Do share!

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How to Use Repurposed Materials to Improve your Decor

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Recovered Furniture

Perhaps you have those furniture pieces that were handed down to you or maybe you purchased the furniture from a good yard sale. Well whatever the case maybe with the furniture, take what you have and expound on it. There are plenty of DIY projects and tutorials online that can teach you how to revamp your furniture selections that may be outdated or un-usable for what they were originally designed for. Each piece of furniture has its own character that it brings to the space so don’t just get rid of it, instead try designing it another.

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Regained Accents

Repurposed materials help to make the décor of the home to match with your own unique personal style. Many of these materials are one-of a kind which will help your décor truly stick out in a pleasing way. Believe or not the ordinary items found in an antique store, thrift shop, yard sale or even within your own home are all game. Look around and get creative. Take something like a suitcase and turn it into a chair or intro shelves for a dresser drawer. Check out different websites to help you to become creative about the different ways to break down and rebuild the accents you have collected.

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Re-create Something from Nothing

From over the years one can collect quite a bit of miscellaneous items that may seem useless. However, that is not entirely true. Say you just moved into a new place that didn’t carry as much shelving that you might have desired or even enough storage space that you preferred. Did you know that from the re-purposed materials you can create your very own unique shelving and storage cabinets from items like a baby bassinet or even from a ladder? The opportunities are endless.

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Every now and again we all want to spruce up our interiors. But that doesn’t necessarily mean that you have to go out and buy the whole store, you can get all that may need with just a few re-purposed materials. Just tap into your creative spot and see what ideas you may come up with. Now I ask you Stagetecture readers, what re-purposed ideas will you use for your décor?

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Your office can often seem like one of the most daunting areas to spring clean. On the one hand it’s extremely important tidy and professional looking. But, on the other, the time you spend there is extremely valuable – odds are you have a million other items to get through on that never-ending to-do list. If this sounds familiar, don’t fret. Follow these easy office organization tips to help you get your space in order and keep it that way. Every office is bound to have a certain amount of clutter – dried-out pens, old takeout menus, overstuffed files. Start cleaning your office by going through everything and getting rid of items you no longer need. Take note reusable office supplies like folders and half-empty notepads that you may be able to repurpose later.

Spring Cleaning: Easy Office Organization Tips  

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Spring Cleaning: Easy Office Organization Tips

Create a Workflow Management System:

Businesses thrive on routine. Odds are every time you pick up a new client or case, you follow a similar procedure. Think about what your procedure looks like and write out a list that includes each step. Then, decide which steps need more organization and find a tool to help with that task. Are you always losing papers? Store all your papers in a specific case file and keep all the files in the same place. Do you need to keep track of outgoing and incoming calls? Start a phone log. Do you need to assign tasks and deadlines to others? Create a master calendar that you can update as new tasks come up. Once you decide upon a system, make a commitment to actually use it. Within a few months it will become routine and you’ll never look back.

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Don’t Neglect Your Desktop:

Since so much about office work is now digital, organizing your computer is nearly as important as keeping your space in order. Declutter your desktop by arranging your documents in a series of folders and subfolders. Remember to name each file something clear and unique. Delete files you don’t need and do the same with emails. Then, back up everything on an external hard drive, so that you don’t have to worry about a technology breakdown.

Make a Pending Bin:

One of the easiest ways to feel frazzled at work is by losing track of tasks that you should have followed up on. Create a pending bin to hold all of those items in one place until you complete them. Keep it on the edge of your desk and then every time you make a note to schedule an appointment, return a phone call, or finish filling out a form, put it in your pending bin. The bin will serve as a visual clue that you need to return to these items later.

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Freshen Up On Your Way Out:

This one is the key to keeping things looking sharp long term. Before you leave the office every day, take five minutes to get things in order. Put away those files you don’t need anymore, move to-do items into your pending bin, clean off the top of your desk. You’ll be surprised how easy it is to get down to work in the morning when you don’t have to dig through a pile of papers.

Some of these suggestions may seem like common sense but, if you stick to them, they will keep your office looking great and running smoothly. There’s no reason not to get started today.

Do you have any essential office organization tips that we didn’t mention here? Let us know in the comments below.

Are you looking for a way to bring a beautiful and greener home? We all would like to be inspired by the view of nature within our very own home aquarium systems that can help the environment and society as a whole.  However, with most aquariums they require much maintenance and are not sustainable ecosystems for the environment.  But now there is a solution to this issue and that is the EcoQube.  The EcoQube is a recirculation system that has the fish produce nutrients for the plants that grow above it.

A Greener Way to Beautify your Home – The New EcoQube 

The minds behind this production, Kevin Liang and Eric Suen two UC San Diego students and founders of Aqua Design Innovations, were intrigued by planted aquatic ecosystems and turned their curiosity into a reality.  They were realizing some of the major challenges in today’s society are food and water storage.  So they both made the decision of using their well-equipped knowledge of aquariums to introduce the concept of aquaponics (a method of sustainable food production) and the greatness of a sustainable ecosystem to as many people as possible.

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The way the EcoQube works is that the fish will excrete waste into the water column within the aquarium, and then the aquaponics filter will convert the fish excretion (ammonia) into fertilizer (Nitrates).  The plants that are on the aquaponics filter such as basil, flowers, mint etc. will absorb the fertilizer and grow.  The finishing result will be a natural, self-sustainable ecosystem that will also be is to care for and maintain.

The EcoQube will also come with a K-12 Curriculum about the science behind aquaponics and self-sustainable ecosystems.  Eric and Kevin would both like for children as well as adults to learn how their natural ecosystems work.  Over 70% of global freshwater is used for agricultural and quacultural purposes.

Billions of gallons of water for those two purposes are being contaminated with pesticides, fertilizer and wastes.  Aquaponics will use less than 90% of water than the traditional agriculture does without the wastes, grow food 30%-50% faster without pesticides, create healthier marine life farmed in this environment and it will all be completely organic.

If you are interested for more information, then visit the website at the top and be inspired to make our world a better place! Please help Eric and Kevin achieve their goals and help this awesome cause at Aquaponics Filter.com.

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When purchasing an outfit, shoes or accessories you don’t think about the clutter that can accumulate when we take them off and toss them in your closet at home. Organization in your wardrobe closet is essential, but it’s often hard to achieve. You do not have to constantly get up and travel through your clothes just to get to the door or stumble over shoes that are on the floor within the closet just to get a jacket.  So take a look below and discover some ways to help you clean-up and structure your apparel.

For the Hanging Space

When hanging your clothes you want to keep in mind that the space should have function and beauty working side by side.  So in some cases dividing the long hanging spaces in a two bars (if possible) to hang shorter garments within your closet is a good idea.  Not only will this help to house more clothes but it can create a versatile arrangement for the space.  Also depending on the type of clothing you can change the hanger and hanger color for more mix-up variety.

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Fold the Clothes don’t Pile

Sometimes our folded clothes can become mountains of piles instead of stacks of folds.  To reverse this issue keep it simple, flip over a deep shelf using the built-in brackets as dividers and separate the sweaters from the shirts, the shirts from the undershirts and so forth.  Another way to add more space for your tops is to take out the bottoms, like your jeans.  Take the jeans that you have separated and hang them on the wall by their belt loops with S-hooks so you can have a grab and go effect.  Also roll the casual pants and place them in the slots of a shoe organizer.

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Shoes & Boots

When you are organizing your shoes you need to have the Missouri state slogan, “Show Me.” Technically all of your shoes should be off the floor for easier access and angled shelves usually work best because they give a tilt that forces the shoes to be visible. More storage places for your shoes are with cubby holes or shelves with stackable plastic boxes. A few tips for boots are to keep them vertical (less space is use and helps them to stay in great condition) and keep them suspended in the air (use mini clip style hangers or sturdy steel over the door racks).

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Make Your Bags a Statement   

Again this is similar to the organization of your shoes.  Set up your bags as works of art.  Snag the ideas from boutiques and display your bags behind glass from a revamped china cabinet or curio case so they can remain dust-free and stylish for your home. For clutches, use Lucite dividers in the closet that way they are propped up and kept looking nice.

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So try some of these ideas the next time you need organization in your closet areas. Your wardrobe is one of those areas in your home that will help you get out of the house on time in the morning if it’s organized and it will keep your home feeling complete!

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Does your current home office look a little chaotic?  Get it organized and save space with a mini-closet remodel!  A fantastic solution for small spaces, closet offices are budget-friendly, completely customizable, and absolutely stylish.  You can turn almost any existing closet into a personal workspace for your crafts, computer, and more with the right supplies.

3 Easy & Creative Steps to a DIY Closet Office 

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Step 1: Choose a closet

You’ll need a closet that isn’t being used. Guest bedroom closets, hall closets, and even pantries can become organized offices.  With a little planning, try to move items from your potential work closet into others areas of your home.  This is a great excuse to finally get around to that spring cleaning…

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Step 2:  Plan your space

Will this closet be your new sewing room?  An office with a computer?  Decide what you will use the space for, and evaluate everything that needs to fit inside.  Before going shopping, look online at some types of storage solutions; you may find the perfect little gadget to hold spools of thread!  If you don’t know where to begin, just ask.  The Container Store offers both DIY and supervised closet design assistance through their elfa Design Center. Vertical space is key: if you need a desk, add shelving, hooks, or boxes above the desk to maximize storage.

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Step 3:  Decorate

Once you have the storage solutions down, start thinking style.  To save more space, take down bi-fold, sliding, or outward-opening doors and replace them with colorful curtains for extra punch.  To do this, either use a tension rod or mount a regular curtain rod above the inside molding of your closet and hang curtains that fall from the top of the frame to the floor.  Whatever state of chaos your workspace is in, the curtains will disguise it with style!

Inside the closet, paint the walls a bright color (white works great, too) to make the small space look larger.  Use plenty of lighting; have an electrician add a light fixture inside the closet, or use a bright desk light.  Color-coordinated office supplies, decorative and functional corkboards, and a motivational quote will finish the space get you excited to work from your new office!

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Your closets are one of the important places in your home that you should keep clean and well-organize. This is where you have your personal items such as your clothes, accessories and other essentials. Spring is the time to put away the winter gear and thoroughly clean out the old before getting into the next season.

Cleaning your closet is easier said than done. Motivation to clean your closet is one thing but doing it effectively is another. You have to know what exactly need to be done. This is to save time and efforts in cleaning your closet. Also, following the appropriate procedure in cleaning your closet ensures better results.

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Here are some helpful ideas and procedure to spring clean your closets this season:

Start by removing everything

This is the best start in cleaning your closet. But do not just place them anywhere after removing. Evaluate the things you get and categorize them. You may divide them into things you intend to donate, retain, repurpose or any category you think of. This will make it easier for you to identify the things that will be kept in the closet and free some space for other essential items.

Polishing your closets clean

After you remove everything, you’re now ready to cleanly polish your closet freely. It will be very convenient because of the absence of the things in the closet. When polishing, you have to dust the shelves and wipe all the surfaces. Use the right equipment like vacuum cleaner, rug, and duster. You also have to polish the surrounding of your closet with mop or broom.

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Organize everything

Sort all your clothes, pants, accessories and other items. This will make it pleasant to see and easy to access. It will avoid unintentional clutter due to finding items you can’t locate. You have to arrange them according to the frequency of use. It will also help if you will hang as many items as you can for orderly arrangement.

Take your time and make the most of spring cleaning your closet. There is nothing better than starting out the new spring season with organized and freshly clean closets.

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Let’s be honest, Americans like stuff. No matter how much stuff we already have that is never enough. Whether is clothes, furniture, art, whatever, for people that live in the US more is always better. Don’t believe me? Just look around your home and you will see what I’m talking about (did you really need to buy that home popcorn cart).

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Is there enough room for more items?

Despite this sad truth the reality is that even though we desire all these things, we really don’t have enough room for them. If you keep getting more and more things eventually you are going to run out of room. Think about it, is there a room in your home that is about to explode at the seams? Or maybe it’s your garage, or your attic. Wherever it is I know you have been putting off organizing it just for the fear of getting started.

Well look no further as I have found the perfect solution to all your organization problems. Renting a self-storage unit is by far the best way to clear up clutter in your home or office. They are cheap, convenient, and come in a variety of sizes that make the storage of any amount of belongings possible. And with the growth in popularity of online storage aggregators, is now super easy to find the perfect unit for you.

Even though renting a unit is an added expense, most people find that it is well worth it. Storage facilities usually charge by the month as well, so even if you only want to keep stuff in there for a few weeks while you renovate your kitchen, that’s ok.

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Self storage facilities can help

They can be used to store just about anything: furniture, holiday decorations, and recreational vehicles, just about anything you can think of and just don’t have room for can be placed in a self-storage unit. There are also units available that are climate controlled in case what you’re storing needs to be kept at a specific temperature, and there are usually state-of-the-art security systems in place so you don’t have to be worried about your stuff getting stolen.

If you are in need to some extra space to get yourself organized then it’s a no brainer, using a self-storage unit is definitely the way to go.

This article was written by Matt Schexnayder. Matt is on the marketing team for SpareFoot and writes for the Storage Facilitator. Storage aggregators help you find the best deals on Phoenix storage units as well as other storage units all across the country.

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Many people are getting interested in how to stay motivated to lose weight, especially during the holidays. Of course, proper motivation is the key to sustain and achieve the desired weight, but during the holidays temptations of food, busy schedules and stress and entertaining can lead to overeating. One must always have the zeal to perform training and routine exercise to lose weight.

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The enthusiasm and never give up attitude should always be there. It drives you closer to your goal. The initial step of performing your quest to attain a desirable weight may be smooth but it will get rough along the way. These hurdles may block simultaneously on your way. The best strategy to overcome these stumbling blocks is to stay motivated and focus on your target goal.

Here are some helpful tips on how to stay motivated to lose weight:

Stay focused

This can be very vague but there are several things you can do to stay focused on your goal. One strategy is to place a statement or illustration of your desired weight in front of your bed. This will remind you as you wake up and before going to sleep about your objective. This is something that you can gauge your efforts done every day. Another strategy is by evaluating your weight loss every other day. Once you will see the progress of your weight, you will definitely look forward for the next result.

Invite your best friend

This may sound simple but hard to do. It involves proper selection of friend that can be with you until the end. Invite more friends as possible. This will also serve as your bonding time. With having friends to be with you, there will be greater chances of achieving the desired weight. The whole procedure of losing weight can be more fun and easy when shared with your friends.

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Take a weekly pictorial

This is a great way to stay motivated. It is a something that you can look and be inspired. The thing with getting pictures of yourself is that it will provide you with the most accurate illustration on how you fair with your task. The more significant the weight loss manifest in the picture, the more motivation you develop in the process.

It’s never too late to get healthy this holiday season. Start your regimen now and enjoy a healthy holiday!

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