Name: Most Organized Home in America - HGTV Clean Freaks & Professional Organizer Alejandra Costello
Uploaded: 2014-04-23T15:41:48.000Z
Duration: 14 min 21 s
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I am Alejandra Costello, creative organizing expert from Color-Coded Organizing, and we

are here in Arlington, Virginia and today I am going to give you a sneak peek inside

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my house and show you that organizing can be easy and can be fun. Lets go. I am so excited

you’re here. I am going to show you some of the coolest spaces in my house, all of

which are very easy to do and very fun. I love this pantry. There is so much you can

do inside of a pantry. What I have done up here is I have used these Lazy Susans to store

all the oils, vinegars, and condiments, which makes it really easy to access and find exactly

what you are looking for. Down here I did the same concept. I used a Lazy Susan for

vitamins, spices, then some of the bigger spices. It works perfect. And then down here

is where I keep all of my canned goods. The perfect way to store canned goods is on a

tiered shelf because you can see all of the labels from standing outside of the pantry.

It is perfect and it makes it so easy to grab. Down here is where I keep all of the dry goods.

Dry goods should be stored in air-tight containers. They last a lot longer when they are stored

properly. And let me show you something cool we did. I put these chalkboard adhesive labels

on the very front and I used a chalkboard marker to label the contents. When the contents

change you can easily wipe this off and then write the new label. And then on the very

back I cut out the nutritional facts or the recipe and I stuck it inside this clear pocket

adhesive sticker. Down here is where I keep all the snack foods, dinner foods, and beverages.

Basically you want to keep all the stuff that is difficult to contain in drawers, which

makes it a lot easier. So like all the snack foods, they just get dumped inside this bin.

Same thing with the dinner foods like the pastas, the grains, the seasoning packets.

And then over here is where I keep all of the beverages, like the juice packets, the

coffees, the teas. This is one of my favorite products. It is this tea bag organizer. It

has six different sections and you can organize the teas by type. And then the last part of

organizing the pantry is labeling all the shelves so when you get back from the grocery

store you know exactly where to put everything back. And so I made these cute little labels

for the drawers and the shelves out of a red and white picnic print since it is the kitchen.

There is so much you can do in the pantry and these are just some of the ways I like

to organize my pantry. Now lets go over to the cabinets. Something I always see in the

kitchens is when you open a drawer and the silverware organizer slides back. Let me show

you. I put this drawer divider next to the silverware organizer and it does not move.

It stays in place even as hard as you open the drawer or close it. Now let me show you

the upper cabinets. As you can see here the kitchen is not very big, but if you maximize

space you can fit so much inside your cabinets. Up here I used a double shelf to store big

plates on the bottom and small plates above. And I did the same thing with the bowls. The

small bowls on the bottom and then the big bowls on the top. I hung sheet metal inside

of my kitchen cabinets to take all the fridge clutter off the fridge and into the cabinets.

So I still see the pictures and I still see the magnets, they are just not cluttering

up the fridge. If you have a narrow corner cabinet in your kitchen, you can install a

21 inch Lazy Susan to make everything in the back corner that is hard to access very easy

to reach. Flat baking pans should never be stacked. Instead you should store them vertical

with vertical shelf dividers kind of like this. It makes it really easy to grab what

you want and then put it away when you are done. You have seen the kitchen and pantry.

Lets go to the home office. This is my home office, which also serves as my craft space.

Lots of offices have paper floating around the whole office, but I am going to show you

that if everything has a home you can be more productive. This is most of my craft supplies

up here and then I keep more of it on this pegboard. I love organizing with pegboards

because they are so cost efficient. You can paint them, you can design them. You can add

so many different hooks and store all kinds of different tools. My favorite thing to store

on pegboards are ribbon. It pulls so nicely and then you can just cut it. Over here is

where I have my mail center. I have a section for incoming, outgoing, processing, stuff

to file, work stuff, and then coupons. I am a very out of sight, out of mind person, so

when I designed this mail center, it was so important that I could see everything. Over

here is where I keep my filing cabinet. I used colored file folders to store all the

different types of documents. When it comes to wrapping presents, I love storing gift

wrap on a vertical organizer like this. A lot of times I see gift wrap in the corner

of a closet and all the ends are torn or the paper is wrinkled, which defeats the purpose

of wrapping a pretty gift. This area was designed to hold a lot of my work binders and my reading

books. I also store half of my office supplies over here, like my file folders, my note pads.

There’s filing kits for when I work with clients. I love using stickers when I write

cute cards or letters to friends or family. I sort all my stickers by type and I keep

them in Poly envelopes so they don’t get wrinkled or torn. I use these binder rings

to hold them in place and then I just hook them on this hook. Time management is so important

when it comes to organization. I love to track my daily chores and my exercise goals. So

I use two different types of checklists here and every time I do, every time I complete

a chore, I get a sticker and it sounds so silly, but it works for me. You just have

to find what works for you. I keep the other half of my office supplies in these drawers.

I have lots of pens and lots of markers because I love using different colors, but everything

has its own compartment here so it is really easy to find. I keep some of my bulky office

supplies on this side like the notepads, the rubber bands, the staplers, the flags for

the binders. If you can organize your office and find a home for everything you are storing,

you can really be more productive. At any given time I only keep twelve magazines in

the house. I do not have any subscriptions and I only buy magazines if I see them in

the store and I know I am going to go home and read it that day. And if I read it that

day, I will put a flag on the page for anything I want to save and then I will put it on this

rack if I want to go back and reference it in the future. I use the one in, one out rule,

so if a magazine is going to go in this rack, one is going to come out. We are done in the

home office and now I am going to show you another problem area – the closet. We are

here in my closet and there is so much stuff that I want to show you. Lets start with the

jewelry. I keep all of my jewelry in this pull out organizer that is built into the

closet. I have my bracelets on this side, and then I have some of my smaller jewelry

like my rings and earrings on this side. The second half of my jewelry is over here. I

keep some of the longer necklaces on hooks and then some of the bulky bracelets get thrown

in the basket up here. I organize all of my clothes by type. So I keep all the dresses

in one section, all the long sleeves in a separate section. And then I use these closet

dividers to mark each section. So like long sleeve will go in front of the long sleeve

section. I love to use color-coded hanger snaps for all my clothes. For example, for

all my long sleeve shirts, I use purple snaps on the hangers, and then all my dresses get

yellow hanger snaps. It makes it really easy to put your clothes back on the right hanger.

I reused a towel rack from the bathroom to hang all of the scarves in the closet. It

can be so easy to go green. Bathroom cabinets can often be black holes for clutter, but

if you get creative, there is often other places to store you bathroom products. For

example, if you use door pockets on the back of the door, you could store your small makeup

or your small hair accessories. A lot of times people have a lot of stuff in their medicine

cabinet. Luckily there is an easy way to organize it. The door of the medicine cabinet can sometimes

be magnetic, and if it is not, that can easily be solved by mounting sheet metal to the interior

door. For example, everything that you see here is magnetic. And all the stuff you see

here is stuff that I use every day. So like tweezers, scissors, nail clippers, Q-tips.

It makes it really accessible. Since I live in a condo, I do not have a laundry room.

Instead I have a laundry closet, which makes it kind of difficult to air dry some of my