A thought on open shelves

If you're going to go for open shelves in your kitchen, you have to keep your cabinets organized, because you can't hide the clutter. Ask yourself 'how organized am I?' before making the choice to add them to your kitchen.
Image from Apartment Therapy

Also, I'm a little bit in love with these checkered storage tins from Lavender and Sage. They're just that perfect cheery retro accessory for storing kitchen staples.

The Rule of Organization

Spring cleaning is coming up sooner than most of us will realize. Or maybe we're all getting ready for New Years Eve parties, and looking around the house, we think 'where am I going to put all this stuff?'

The biggest problem is that most of us don't realize just how important storage is. Organization is storage in its most perfect form. If you don't have a place for literally everything you own, you won't ever be organized. It looks something like this:

Places for things > Things

There are two ways to solve this: either increase the number of places to put things (new shelving unit, bigger armoire, etc) or decrease the number of things you have. The second option is the cheapest one, and will make things easier in the long run.