This month’s most interesting home organization trend news didn’t come from a closet company. It came from TaskRabbit, whose 2026 Trend Report shows people are quietly giving up the guest room and turning it into a space they’ll use every week. I’ve been reading through this year’s trend reports for a few weeks now, plus […]

The first snow hits Downers Grove, and within about a day the back door is a mess. Boots dripping on the mat, one mitten drying on the radiator and the other one missing, a sledge somebody leaned against the dryer and forgot about. I see some version of that in a lot of homes around […]

If you’ve never organized anything yourself, these DIY home organization ideas for beginners are a good place to start, because none of them needs special skills or a big budget. Most of them use stuff you’d normally throw out. I mean shoeboxes, old jars and a cereal box. Only the last project needs a screwdriver. […]

If your kitchen is small, your microwave is probably taking up the counter space you need most. A regular LG countertop model is about 21 inches wide and 17 inches deep, so it takes up a good part of the space where you would cut vegetables or set down a hot pan. A kitchen microwave […]

A light wood nightstand is one of those pieces that looks great in the listing photo and then gets to your house and looks a little orange. I hear about this a lot. People send me a picture of their master bedroom and ask what’s wrong with the nightstand, and most of the time, nothing […]

Most people choose a dining table with a leaf in the wrong order. They choose the finish first, then the shape, then whatever extension the store has in stock, and the leaf becomes something to sort out after delivery. Then delivery happens, and a forty-pound board of oak ends up in the hallway with nowhere […]

Ask ten companies for a quote, and you will get ten versions of the same website: first, a cedar cottage photographed at dusk, a free feasibility study button underneath it, and the word turnkey somewhere near the top. What you will not get from any of those pages is what ends up deciding how your […]