Organize and Thrive: The Just Organized by Taya Blog
Top Tips for Organizing Cleaning Supplies
Cleaning your home is a necessary evil. Keeping a clean home takes time, energy, and the right cleaning supplies and tools. To maximize your efforts, your cleaning supplies should be organized and stored for easy access and to stop you wasting money on duplicate items...
Simple Steps to an Organized Entryway
As a professional home organizer, I usually start with the front of the house. With the often cluttered and disorganized entryway. Without a proper organization framework, it's simply too easy for this high-traffic area to devolve into chaos. If you don't have a...
Last Minute Holiday Lighting Ideas for Every Houston Home
There are just a few days until Christmas but many of us are still decorating! Often the hardest part of any holiday decorating project is the outside decor and there are plenty of years when we all end up a bit disappointed because we could have done a bit more,...
How To Organize Your Kitchen In Time For the Holidays
If you're hosting a Christmas lunch or a quiet family gathering this year, you'll need to create some extra order in your home, particularly in the kitchen. The kitchen is the heart of the home, especially during the holiday season, and getting your kitchen organized...
5 Top Tips for Perfectly Wrapped Christmas Gifts
There's something about being able to put perfectly wrapped gifts under a Christmas tree that makes you so proud. But lots of people just never seem to manage it, and resort to adding all their gifts to generic - and often rather expensive, gift bags instead. It does...
How to Organize Your Guest Room in Time for the Holidays
Do you have family or friends coming to visit soon, and your guest room is disorganized? This is a typical issue with home organization. It's more common this year as the holidays approach, as last year saw many people stay home for the holidays. Pandemics aside, in...
How to Deck the Halls Without Damaging Your Home
Our homes can be put under a lot of stress when we're decking the halls. After the holidays are over, thick garlands, hefty strands of lights, dazzling decorations, and enormous Christmas trees may leave behind obstinate messes and ugly damage. The last thing you need...
Six Stunning Holiday Decorating Color Schemes
The holiday season is upon us. Now is a great time to get a jump on things and start planning your seasonal decorations ahead of time. That will leave you more time to enjoy this very special time in what has been, to say the least, another strange year. The first...
Five Great Smartphone Apps for Organized Holiday Gift Lists
For lots of people, the ongoing status of their holiday gift list can best be described as complicated. It is strewn between notes on their phone, Post-Its at home and at work, bookmarks in their browser (or browsers) and a bunch of Pinterest pins. Invariably, this...
How to Use Amazon Alexa to Better Organize Your Day
By now, most of us know that knows how Amazon Alexa can play music for you, answer lots of questions and control smart home devices; everything from lightbulbs to microwaves. But Amazon's virtual assistant can also play a key role in making your life more organized....
Thanksgiving Organization Tips For Smarter Holiday Food Shopping
Thanksgiving is likely to be your largest food shopping trip of the year. So, what's the best way to make it as seamless as possible? My helpful planning, organizing, shopping, and storage suggestions will help you survive the stress of the day before Thanksgiving....
Interior Design Tips for ACNH Homes From a Home Design Pro
Today, it's time for a little fun… Animal Crossing: New Horizons was THE game of lockdown, and it wasn't kids firing up their Nintendo Switch consoles to immerse themselves in a whole new world, the vast majority of ACNH players are adults in their 20s and 30s. After...
How to Reduce Food Waste at Home to Save Money, Save the Planet and Get More Organized
You've read the articles and seen the TikToks. Food waste is a huge global issue, but the effects hit closest to home when you realize how much money you’re literally tossing in the trash. That excess, unused food isn't just a waste of money—it's the root cause of...
How To Organize For Thanksgiving
This year, you don't want to leave it until the last minute to get ready for Thanksgiving. It's hectic enough around the holidays without having to waiting until the last minute to prepare… especially if you're having a family Thanksgiving dinner party. Allow us to...
5 One Hour Houston Home Decor Projects That Will Have a Huge Impact on Your Living Spaces
Sometimes the smallest little details can have the biggest impact, and that is especially true around the house. If you want to freshen things up a bit, but don't have much time to take on big Houston home decor projects, take a look at some of these easy, one-hour...
