Expert Tips on Packing and Moving Valuables

Packing and moving valuables is stressful! Learn the right way to wrap and secure silver, antique furniture, ceramics, glass, and 2-D art with these expert tips and tricks.

Packing and moving valuables is stressful! Learn the right way to wrap and secure silver, antique furniture, ceramics, glass, and 2-D art with these tips and tricks. Knee deep in corrugate, tape, and tissue? Pulling your hair out because you just can’t figure out the best way to pack Grandmother’s silver or your wedding china?…

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Best of the Weekend – Link Up Party 13

Hey Y’all! Forgive me for missing last week. We are crazy busy at work, and I was a bit overwhelmed! I’m back this Best of the Weekend and eager to see all that you’ve been up to. On P&P this week you will find: Tulips & Stripes A Gingham & Chintz Romance in the Living…

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2 Clever Ways to Repurpose Grocery Store Wine Totes

Repurpose grocery store wine totes as storage caddies to organize your closet, bathroom, and suitcase!

Repurpose grocery store wine totes as storage caddies to organize your closet, bathroom, and suitcase. No crafting, sewing, or gluing necessary! We love…LOVE wine here at the Medlin household! We are not very picky or snobbish about our wines either. As a consequence, we’ve accumulated quite a few grocery store wine totes. You know the ones…

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How to Organize Your Utility Closet

Organize your utility closet with these simple tips! Transform this neglected space into a productive zone that makes cleaning easier!

Organize your utility closet with these 7 simple tips. You’ll transform this neglected space into a productive zone that makes cleaning easier! Y’all know I’ve been working on the 3 closets in my entryway over the past several weeks. I shared my organizational plans here and the first two closet makeovers here. Now I’m finally…

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5 Steps to Makeover Your Entryway Closet

Create an organized entryway closet with these 5 tips

Create an organized entryway with these 5 steps from my entryway closet makeover A few weeks ago I let y’all in on a little secret – my entryway closet chaos! That’s right I confessed to creating a total disaster zone in the three closets that line the wall of my entryway. There was a jumble…

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My Dream Walk In Closet

My dream walk in closet decor plans

I’ve got closets…closets…closets on the brain this week! I’m planning a major closet makeover of my 3 entryway closets this month, and shared my organization and storage strategies for those spaces here. Putting together those plans and shopping for storage solutions, got me thinking about my dream walk in closet. Really, what girl doesn’t have…

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Creating a Closet Organization System Out of Chaos

Organization and storage solutions for entryway closet

I have a confession to make: my entryway closets look like this! Golly that is terrible! Somehow seeing the photos actually makes it worse. There is absolutely no organization going on here just a jumble of cleaning supplies, coats, shoes, lunch boxes, and pet paraphernalia. Some things are still in moving boxes for heaven’s sake,…

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5 Holiday Storage Hacks

Try these 5 holiday storage hacks to organize your Christmas decor

Try these 5 holiday storage hacks to organize your Christmas decor We leave our Christmas decor up until after New Year’s Day. I don’t decorate until after Thanksgiving, and I’m just never ready to take it down right away. I love the festive feeling it gives our home too much! The week and weekend after…

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Organize Your Kids’ Clutter: How to Stay on Top of It

Organize your kids' clutter with these 7 easy strategies.

Ever feel like you are drowning in clutter? Is a lot of it related to your kids’ toys? Today, I’ve invited Kate from The Home Design School to P&P to discuss strategies and tips to organize your kids’ clutter. Kate has an amazing blog full of decorating advice and de-cluttering tips. She suggests that we…

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Open Concept Decorating: Lessons from Fixer Upper

Step 1 to Open Concept Decorating- Unify Design and Decor. Get the 4 step formula for bright and inviting open floor plan

Alright lovely peonies, let’s talk about open concept decorating. Open floor plans are immensely popular right now as we well know. There are endless examples in design magazines and if you watch HGTV, which be honest we decoristas all have a slight obsession with, then you’ve seen designers knocking down walls left and right like…

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