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Create A Household Storage Plan

Lennar — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 16:49:49 +0000

Creating a household storage plan is a great way to get your entire home organized using a blueprint of sorts as a starting point.

Squeezed by the storage shuffle, many home managers yearn for larger quarters. A bigger house is not the answer. Stored stuff has an amazing bread-dough quality–it rises to fill the space available, and then makes a sticky mess as it slops over the sides of the container. No matter how many closets, cupboards or square feet of attic space, surplus stuff will find a way to take over while your back is turned.

The answer? A household storage plan. Yes, it will take some work, but the principles involved are as easy as ABC: Assess, Box and Banish, and Corral and Control. Using these simple principles, Cynthia Ewer, editor of Organized Home brings us this easy-to-follow article to ensure your organizational success! [Read this article]

Source: www.organizedhome.com

6 Organizing Tips for the Summer

Lennar — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 18:38:30 +0000

Summer is here and it’s a great time to get organized. This list of 6 organizing tips will help you get things arranged around your household so you can enjoy this beautiful time of year. From storing grill and pool supplies to taking some time out to declutter and spending special days with your family, this article has some very simple, yet helpful tips to get you started on the right foot this season. [Read this article]

Source: life.familyeducation.com

10 Easy Steps To An Organized Home Office

Lennar — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 19:47:45 +0000

Source: lifeorganizers.com

From personal and business filing to adding a personal touch to your home office, making your home office your personalized and efficient space can do wonders for productivity.

Without the structure of an office outside of our homes, it is easy to scatter anything work related all over the house. We still need to complete our work in a timely and efficient manner. After all, the less time we spend working, the more time we have with our family. An organized home office will make for a faster and more pleasant workday. Here are a few ideas to get you and your home office organized. [Read this article]

Summer Cleaning Chore Checklist

Lennar — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 14:32:18 +0000

Source: www.organizedhome.com

Summer’s here, hot, high and sweaty. Vacations beckon. The garden takes on a life of its own.

Busy families don’t have much time for home chores these months. School’s out, travel’s in and it’s easy to let life slide on the home front.

Still, summer will run more smoothly if you keep tabs on these important areas in the Summer Cleaning Chore Checklist by Cynthia Ewer. Cynthia’s list has some excellent tips for both inside and outside your home, as well as great ideas for staying organized. [READ ARTICLE]

Top 10 Organizing Tips for Closets

Lennar — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 21:21:35 +0000

Source: www.managemylife.com

Organizing your closet is a great summertime project – especially when it’s blistery hot outside. Our Lennar team found this great article with 10 helpful organizing tips for closets. Whether you go all out and install an organizing system to help with this project or you just rearrange and organize what’s already there, this article provides a great way to get started. [READ ARTICLE]

As always, if you need help or have a question about your home, please contact our Lennar Customer Care Team for assistance.

Tips for Storing and Organizing Craft Supplies

Lennar — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 21:21:26 +0000

With the kids out of school for the summer, storing and organizing craft supplies might be at the top of your to-do list. With the fun and freedom of creativity comes the responsibility of cleaning up and organizing – a great summertime lesson for kids. Our Lennar team searched the web and found a couple of helpful articles with some handy tips for keeping your craft supplies neat and tidy.

For some truly unique and special ideas to get your kids involved, check out Organizing Kids’ Art and Craft Supplies. There are some really innovative ideas for using recycled items to keep your space organized – and pleasing to the eye.

To learn more about setting up your space, gathering and sorting supplies, and specific ideas about storage solutions, check out Tips for Storing and Organizing Your Craft Supplies, a helpful article by Sherri Osborn.

As always, if you need help or have a question about your home, please contact our Lennar Customer Care Team for assistance.

Gardening and Yard Care: Organizing Your Tools

Lennar — Thu, 20 May 2010 14:34:36 +0000

Source: www.ehow.com

Is gardening and yard care part of your routine maintenance program? With all of the tools and supplies available to help these days, it’s become much easier (and fun) to do these tasks. Once you’re done with these tasks, where do you put all of these helpful tools and products? It can sometimes be a bit too easy to stack them all in a corner in your garage or shed and forget about them until have to search for them the next time. It’s at this point that you might decide that a good organizational plan would be helpful.

We found a very useful article about organizing your tools and thought we’d share it with you. How to Organize Gardening Tools and Supplies walks you step-by-step through some basic tips to help keep your tools and supplies organized. By following the suggestions, you can keep one more area of your Lennar home organized – and make it much easier to find these items the next time you’re planning to care for your yard.

As always, if you need help or have a question about your home, please contact our Lennar Customer Care Team for assistance.

Organizing Your Garage

Lennar — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 21:50:01 +0000

A 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!

How to Organize a Mudroom

Lennar — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 00:01:25 +0000

One 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!

Organizing Paper Clutter in Your Home

Lennar — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 22:52:26 +0000

What 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!