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The natural light, the floor length mirrors, the subtle pops of colors, egh I have complete closet envy. As you know I’ve been purging and organizing and while I don’t have the closet the size of most bedrooms ( I mean really who does?) maybe one day it’ll happen. Until then, it’s still fun to look.

Bringing me back down to reality, this is a great article from Real Simple with 31 practical ways to makeover your closets. Some of my favorites include mounting a peg board for small accessories:
Image from Real Simple 

And using slimming hangers to save space (they really work, these are great from the Container Store).

Image from Real Simple

I’ll get going on those practical solutions but I can still dream that one day I’ll have a space big enough for art and a fun vintage chair for when I’m just too exhausted from dressing myself.

Image from Houzz.com

Image from Houzz.com

xo

Adrienne

Happy New Year everyone! I had a wonderful holiday with my family and our little guy is doing great. He’s a lot of work but it’s been so amazing to see him grow up, I can’t believe he’s almost 20 months!

Our close friends recently gave me a copy of “The Happiness Project”. Now I’m not usually one for self-help books, I love to read but I stick to fiction (something I need to branch out from but I love). That being said, I started reading this book in time for the new year and it has been so inspiring.

I’m only halfway through and still need to make my list of personal goals, but one of the first steps the author (Gretchen Rubin) mentions is getting organized. I still have to sort through all the stuff we’ve accumulated since our move last year, it’s gotten completely out of control. But once I do a purge of household items I need to get organized!

Now, it seems counterintuitive to buy more once I’ve gotten rid of stuff, but I think the above items would be very helpful to organize all the important papers and daily supplies that right now cover my kitchen counter and desk. They might be useful to you too!

As I said, I haven’t finished the book yet but I’m hoping it will inspire more posts. I think one big takeaway so far is that being happy is a choice and starting now I choose to be a happy person and I’m really looking forward to the change :)

xo

Adrienne

A-Listers Need to Know:

Left to Right:

Mini Chalkboard Panels (we have a chalkboard in our kitchen and it’s great for writing out the week’s schedule):

Velocity Art and Design $18

Omaha Pencil Cup

Paper Source $6.95

Wall Pockets

Container Store $9.99

Scallop paper box

Paper Source $14.50

Vitra Uten.Silo

Velocity Art and Design $425

I’m not sure about you, but I’m an avid reader and am constantly trying to come up with creative ways to store all the books I absolutely can’t part with. Then I recently found the “Concealed Shelf” from the european boutique Pure Deco. As you can see above, not only do these shelves help with storage, but they are an inexpensive way to feature your books as art, just as they should be!

- Adrienne

A-Lister’s Need to Know:

Price: Small Shelf $21.00/16.50 Euro-Large Shelf $28.65/22.50 Euro

Purchase: Pure-Deco.com