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Organizing

Organizing Your Garage

February 5, 2010

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Garage door for a Lennar homeA great feature in many Lennar homes is the garage. While this space is designed with automobiles in mind, it has come to be used for many other things. Unfortunately, this mindset that the garage is so multi-purpose can sometimes lead to an accumulation of “stuff”.

Our Lennar team decided to search out some ideas for how to keep this space neat and organized. We found some very helpful articles and decided to share these two with you. Camille VanAarle shares 4 easy-to-follow steps in How to Organize Your Garage and HGTV.com breaks it down in this comprehensive article entitled Garage Organization Made Simple.

If you have other organizing tips that you would like to share, please leave a comment or contact us. We’d love to hear from you!

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Entryway in a Lennar homeOne area of the home that is often overlooked is the mudroom – the area that greets your family and friends as they enter your home. Holding everything from jackets, shoes, boots, and hats to sports equipment, the mudroom has become the ultimate storage area. Considering that it’s one of the smallest rooms in many homes, it can be difficult to control everything that gets packed into this catch-all space. However, it can be done – and done with style.

Our Lennar team set out to find some tips on gaining control of this special room and we came up with a couple of great articles. For some basic suggestions about organization, furniture and storage solutions, check out Mudroom Organization Ideas by Prerna Malik. And for some good ideas and a great photo sampling of mudrooms, Better Homes and Gardens’ Make the Most of Your Mudroom is a must-see.

If you have any thoughts about organization – or any other topic of interest that you would like to share, please leave a comment or send us a message. We’d love to hear from you!

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Office space in a Lennar homeWhat homeowner doesn’t love looking around and seeing a nice, tidy space where they can easily find everything? With the enormous amount of paper we accumulate in our trying-to-be-paperless world, it can sometimes seem like quite a burden to keep from being overwhelmed by a pile of papers.

Our Lennar team found this useful article with tips on how to handle the papers in your life. Written by Cynthia Ewer, The ABCs of Household Paper Management is full of information on how to control and organize the papers coming in from various sources. We hope you will find this article helpful, and as always, if you have suggestions or comments, feel free to send us a message – we would love to hear from you!

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Painting a rendition of his new Lennar home brings a smile to this child's faceDoes it seem like your child is constantly bringing home new artwork, toys, books, and other goodies? When you start looking at the piles of special treasures that can accumulate, organization can seem like an almost insurmountable task. Have no fear, though – our Lennar team found some great ideas for storing, organizing, and displaying these unique and cherished items.

For organizing paperwork, awards, photos, and similar items, we found this great article by Sarah Aguirre entitled Tips on Displaying and Storing Kid’s Papers, Photos, Projects, and More. And for general housekeeping ideas, check out Organizing Children’s Rooms, a comprehensive article with excellent tips on storage solutions.

If you have any tried and true methods that you would like to share, please leave a comment or send us a message. We’d love to hear from you!

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Organize Your Refrigerator in 2010

January 4, 2010

Now that the holidays are over, the guests are gone, and the kids are back in school, it is a great time to clean out and organize your refrigerator. Our Lennar team found a couple of really great articles to help you accomplish this task.
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Organizing Your Closet

December 30, 2009

One of the most popular New Year’s resolutions people make is to get more organized, so we decided to focus on this topic over the next several weeks. During this time, we will be researching and sharing the tips we find for organizing the various areas of your Lennar home.

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Organizing Your Home Office Desk

December 9, 2009

The winter months are a great time to stay inside your Lennar home and get things organized. One of the places where clutter tends to build up is in a home office. Your desk may wind up being the central resting place for bills, cards, letters, and various and sundry other items. [...]

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Checklist and Tips for a Successful Move

November 13, 2009

Moving into a new home is often one of the most thrilling times of your life. It can also be very stressful, but with proper planning, can be fun and exciting.  As you know, there are many responsibilities that accompany the moving process, and overlooking even the simplest of those may cause unexpected setbacks for [...]

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