Organize and Thrive: The Just Organized by Taya Blog
Fall Home Decorating Tips for a Stylishly Cozy Kitchen
The leaves changing color indicates the season has changed, and so follows your home decor. Fall home decorating for the chillier fall months means incorporating warm and inviting colors and textures into your home’s interior design. This is especially important in...
Think Like an Interior Decorator – Use Home Decor Accessories to Create a Perfect Living Space
The new furniture you just bought looked perfect when you spotted the advertisement online and even better when you saw it in person in the showroom. Now that it has been delivered and is in your home it simply does not look the same, something is missing but you...
Decluttering Tips for Remote Home School Spaces
The many hours of projects, crafts, meals, and experiments that happen every day in a home school house can add up to a significant amount of clutter and chaos, as many parents are about to find out for the first time, as they tackle remote schooling as a result of...
Top Science Backed Tips for Remote Learning Classroom Decor
Heavily decorated classrooms can bombard students with too much visual information, interfering with their memory and ability to focus, according to an educational study from European researchers. This study is one of many that have examined the relationship between...
Home Decorating and Home Staging Tips For Your Next Zoom Call
Although we are not quite as restricted in our movements as we were a few months ago, COVID-19 has not gone away and the general advice - and in some places mandate - is that those who can still feasibly work from home should do just that for the foreseeable future....
How to Keep Your Home Organized After Your Houston Home Organizer Leaves
You decided to have a Houston home organizer come in and help you declutter and organize your space (or are considering doing so soon.) Or maybe, as a matter of preference, you are making use of a virtual service due to the current pandemic. Great move whichever...
Remote Learning Home Organization – Special Offer for Overwhelmed Parents!
Recently I offered some tips and advice to parents on the basics of organizing their homes for what is likely to be at least several months of homeschooling, at least on a part-time basis. After that post was published, and seeing how well parents reacted to it, I...
Fire Pit Cookery for Great Summer Eats in Your Outdoor Living Space
A fire pit of any kind makes a wonderful addition to any outdoor living space. Not only does its warmth extend the useful life of the space but the flames add a visual appeal that make the area look and feel more like a real living room, especially if you are gathered...
Home Decorating Tweaks to Prettify Your Patio
A patio is just a base, and it is up to you to decorate it as you see fit to transform it from a functional but slightly plain outdoor living space into something truly spectacular.
Home and Life Organization in a Post COVID-19 World
The COVID-19 pandemic - and the restrictions that have come along with it - have touched, and changed, almost every aspect of our lives. Lockdowns are easing but there are new 'rules' for going out, and new 'rules' for staying safe, some of which can be both confusing...
How To Create an Effective Remote Learning Space
The summer is flying by, but one thing that no-one is sure of right now, especially in Texas, is whether kids are going back to school in September, or if they will still be learning remotely. It seems increasing likely that, at the very least, for most schoolchildren...
Bathroom Organization and Storage Tips for Every Home
Although the kitchen is perhaps just as busy, the bathroom in any home is one of the busiest spots in the house. It's where we bathe, get beautiful (which usually involves a lot of stuff) and basically prepare to meet our day in great shape (or end it hygienically)...
Houston Home Design Ideas: Walk-In Closets
If you ever watch any of those 'at home with celebrities' type shows on TV, you'll know that at least half of them have these huge walk-in closets in their homes that not only look cool but decadent as well. Then you switch off the TV and look at your own closet. A...
Understanding the Color Wheel For Home Decor
Color is hugely important in every aspect of home decorating and home staging. As such it is something that I work with every day. What many people don’t realize though is that getting home decor colors right is about more than what ‘looks pretty’. It’s as much of a...
How to Stage an Older Home for Sale
Selling a house these days is no easy task. It can be harder if the house you’re selling is an older or even historic one. Sure, older homes have distinctive appeal, but they often only attract certain buyers. If you want to attract more buyers, you need to stage your...
