Feature #49, May 9, 2010 Mudrooms have so many uses: storage, sitting, wipe off area, and transition from outdoors to indoors. In the past I’ve showed you how to use the extra space in your home for a mudroom. Whether your mudroom is in a laundry room, part of the basement, or shares a hallway,…
Entry #83, May 6, 2010 We spend months getting the patio ready, and making sure the Spring cleaning has been done. What about about your garage? Can you get to the beach toys? Do you even know where the family luggage is? It’s time to put the Christmas decorations where they really go, and unclutter…
Entry #80, May 3, 2010 I have a homework assignment for you to do today. When you get out of your bed, and clear the sleep out of your eyes – look around you. Do the same thing when you get to work today, preferably before you see your boss, which puts you into a…
Guest Blog Entry #3 – April 28, 2010 Whether you’re a neat freak or an absolute junk hoarder you have ‘stuff’. If you’re a man or woman, a child or elderly person, it is in our nature to have accessories for everything. How do we know what accessory to use for what items? Melonie Blanks,…
Entry #76, April 26, 2010 Several of Stagetecture’s posts have been about home staging. Terry Haas from HGTV’s – ‘Designed to Sell’ gave us 10 home staging tips for home owners. The kitchen, bedrooms, and exterior of the home are usually the main focus of home staging. How about the Laundry room? Do you know…
Entry #73, April 23, 2010 The laundry room can be a great space to get things done if it’s organized. Through all of my laundry posts, I haven’t talked about organizing. When I say organizing, I’m focusing on “How-To” organize. For example how to organize the cleaners and detergents. How to organize the clothes in…
Feature #46, April 21, 2010 Last week I featured an article that was in O magazine, about uncluttering your life. How do you decide what stuff to toss, keep, give away? Check out this article from Re-Nest. You never know, your trash is getting ready to be someone’s treasure! – Article by Rachel Wray What…
Feature #45, April 21, 2010 Several posts have centered around storage, and maximizing vertical space. The ‘hidden’ vertical space on walls is one of the most under utilized portion of most rooms. From hallways to library’s, let’s look at some rooms that optimize the architectural elements of the room and take advantage of vertical space….
Feature #44, April 20, 2010 Is your home office a corner of the kitchen counter? Is your home office a big room with lots of stuff, but it doesn’t inspire you to work? Marie Burgos Design has a feature on Feng Shui guidelines to make your office an inspiring place to work. After all, isn’t…
Entry #70, April 18, 2010 A few days ago when I launched the new feature – Laundry rooms – Home makeover’s, I came across someone searching on Stagetecture for ‘Çamaşır Odası’. I had no idea what the search term meant, so naturally I looked it up. It’s the Turkish meaning for laundry room! This naturally…
Feature #43, April 16, 2010 A few days ago I had a blog post on 12 ways to unclutter your life, from an O magazine article. One of the 12 areas is your closet. Closets are a catch-all for everything. Don’t have time to hang up your shirt? Throw it in the closet. Can’t find…
Entry #67, April 15, 2010 Remember when I said there has been an influx of interest in laundry rooms? I had this great idea today: Dedicate a post every week, (maybe more often) on laundry rooms that are done by you, the viewers and other blogger’s. If you have a laundry room that you’ve redone…