Name: How to Organize Your Home: Organizational Expert Alejandra Costello's House Tour
Uploaded: 2014-07-25T17:22:21.000Z
Duration: 14 min 44 s
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I'm Alejandra and I'm going to give you a tour of my organized home. Let's start in

the kitchen. Let me show you the pantry. Up here is where I keep all the oils and vinegars.

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And then over here are the condiments. I keep them on Lazy Susans because it makes it really

easy to access and grab exactly when you need it.

And then down here, I did the same concept. I use smaller Lazy Susans to store all the

vitamins, all the spices, and then the larger spices that I buy in bulk. And then down here

is where I keep all my canned goods. Canned goods work really well when they're stored

on tiered shelves so you can see all the labels like even the cans in the back. It's awesome.

On this shelf is where I keep all of my dry goods. Dry goods last a lot longer when they're

stored in airtight containers. Let me show you. So the front of the container has a sticker

chalkboard label and I label the contents on the outside and then when content changes,

I just erase this and then rewrite the label or the name of whatever I'm storing. And then

on the very back is where I cut out the nutritional facts or the recipe from the back or the side

of the box and then I just slip it into this business card holder.

And then down here is where I have drawers for all my dinner food, snacks, baking goods,

anything that's really difficult to contain that's not in a can or a jar. So let me show

you. All the snack foods, they get contained into this drawer. So when I get back from

the grocery store, I take the granola bars out of the box and I just dump them into this

drawer. It makes it really easy to find what you're looking for and easy to contain.

And then I do the same thing for the beverages over here. Let me show you. So like all the

juice packets, they come out of the box and they just go into this container like the

Crystal Light, the hot chocolate, the Apple Cider.

And then the same thing with the tea bags, the tea bags go in this tea bag organizer.

There are six different sections so I can sort my tea bags by type.

Let me show you the cabinets. Here's where I keep all of my dishware. And I love this

area for so many different reasons. I love this area because I use these bridges in all

three of the shelves. And what they do is they double the amount of the storage space

you have so you can use the bottom to store larger plates and then the top to store smaller

And then on the cabinet doors, I lined them, with sheet metal so I can take all the stuff

that was originally on the fridge and stick it inside the cabinet so I don't have all

that fridge clutter hanging out inside the kitchen.

You've seen the kitchen. Let's go to the home office. This is my home office which also

serves as my craft space. Let me show you around. Over here is where I have my mail

center. I have a compartment for my incoming, outgoing, stuff I'm processing, stuff I'm

filing, my work stuff and then my coupons. Everything has its own spot so when it comes

in it gets immediately sorted into here until I go to the pile.

And then up here is where I keep all of my craft supplies. I love doing arts and crafts

so when designed the space, it was so important that supplies like that had a designated home

And then in the middle of the desk, I designed and built and pinboard to store some of my

ribbon, my scissors and other small tools I use when I wrap gifts or do art projects.

And then over here is where I have my magnetic whiteboard. So I use that to post any invitations,

any thank you cards, any special pictures, or any notes that I want to make sure not

to forget about. And then I can also use them as whiteboards to write important notes.

Over here, here is where I keep all of my office supplies. So like my pens, my pencils,

my markers, paperclips, pushpins, anything I might need to get work done.

Let me show my wrapping paper. I keep my wrapping paper on the wall stored vertically so the

ends won't get ripped or don't get torn. And then it makes it really easy to grab when

And then over here, I have my filing cart. Now, I love this thing for so many reasons.

I color-coded my files so everything was very easy to find when it came time to grab document

or to file a paper. Green is all my financial related documents. Light blue is all my tax

related documents that I accumulated throughout the year and then I use during tax time. Red

is all my important vital documents so stuff that I never want to throw out. And then orange

is stuff that I'm constantly updating or pulling out or replacing. Purple is stuff that I constantly

go back and reference so like any resource documents or stuff that I want to save and

access at a later time. Dark blue is all my tax returns so whenever I get my tax return

back from the IRS, it goes in the dark blue section. Everything is color-coded so I know

exactly where something goes when it's filed.

And then on this half of the space, I have the rest of my office supplies. Down here

is where I have all of my file folders like for the piling cabinet, interior file folders,

filing kits. I have a mini shipping center. They're stored vertically so I can just pull

one out when needed. If you store them horizontally, it's really difficult to get to the item on

Down here is where I have all my colored paper. So again, I'm really into arts and crafts.

So it's nice to have all your papers sorted by color.

Since I love arts and crafts, I have a lot of stickers. So I store all my stickers in

these poly envelopes that I got for The Container Store. They come in two sizes and I use the

small size for my smaller stickers and then the large size for my full-sheet stickers.

And then I punch a hole in the corner and I put these colored binder rings that I got

from Office Depot in the corner and then I just hang them on hooks. And then I labeled

the outside with the type of sticker it is. So like these are the food and drink so it

says food and drink. And then they all just hang right here on the side of all of my office

supplies, which is really the perfect spot for them.

You've seen my home office, now I'm going to show you how I organize my closet. This

is my closet. Let me show you around. Over here is where I keep my jewelry. I keep my

bulky bracelets at the very top and then I keep all my long necklaces on hooks below.

And then the other half of my jewelry is in this pullout jewelry organizer. This is probably

my favorite thing in the closet just because it slides so nicely and it just has compartments

But over here, I have my rings, my small bracelets, I have earrings. Over here, I have all my

long dresses. The same thing over here, I have all my sleeveless. On this side, I have

my long-sleeve, my short-sleeve, my sleeveless dresses.

Down here, I have all of my pants like my jeans, my black pants, my jackets are here,

my long skirts are here. And then on this side, I have all of my drawers which I use

for like pajamas, workout clothes, t-shirts. And then at the very top, I have all of my

boots. And then up here, I have all of the heels that I don't wear very often. Most of

the time, I wear flat shoes like flip flops, tennis shoes, or just casual ballet shoes.

Over here is where I have all of my scarves. I re-use the tower rack from the bathroom

to hang all the scarves. All my hangers are color-coded so all my long-sleeve shirts,

they have these purple hanger snaps at the very top. The dresses get yellow. The pants

So you've seen the closet. Now, let me show you my bathroom. Getting ready in the morning

is difficult enough so you want to make the getting ready process as streamlined as possible.

I keep all my brushes, my concealers, bronzers, blushes, eye shadows, eyeliners, mascaras,

ponytail holders, claws, headbands, bobby pins, everything is separated. So I just find

exactly what I'm looking for. I grab it and then I just throw it back in this pocket.

One of my other favorite things about the bathroom is the shower curtain liner. Let