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In summer nothing beats the feel of sand between your toes. Unless, of course, you happen to be inside. Sandy floors (or worse, sheets) are the bane of every beach cottage. But, as this native Cape Codder has discovered, there are ways to…

As the parent of a toddler, I’ve discovered the genius of a divided dish: no food group encroaches upon another and frankly it’s a little more fun. Not just for children, the divided sections evoke Japanese bento, Korean banchan, and Indian…

Shaker peg rails have been saving our sanity (and year-round sanity, for that matter) since we first wrote about them a decade ago. (You can read that original article right here.) Once we realized what they could do for keeping a room in…

Carly Carey is a new mother and a third-year plumbing apprentice in Minneapolis—she’s about two years from taking the state test to become a licensed master plumber. It was during the pandemic that Carly, a middle school English teacher,…

Admired in a recent editorial meeting: a handy laundry bag from Steele Canvas, ideal for hanging from the back of a bathroom door, toting around the house, even lugging (as a backpack) to the laundromat. (I wish I’d had one in my days of…

With stainless steel at the forefront of our design forecast for the year, the sleek metal wall shelf is a burgeoning trend we’ve kept an eye on. Here, we profile the 10 best ultra-thin wall-mounted shelves in aluminum, steel, and…

The editors of The Organized Home, on the whole, tend toward the OCD side of the cleanliness spectrum. We like our spaces and our things to be neat, fresh, and sparkling. And, for the most part, we prefer cleaning with natural products…

The headline is not click bait. When we first saw Velinda Hellen’s kitchen makeover on Emily Henderson’s blog (Velinda is a designer at Emily Henderson Design), we were floored by the space-saving solutions she came up with. Given that we…