I write Simply At Home from one house in Baton Rouge. Every routine here gets tested on my own shelves first, and I keep only the part that still works a month later.
Start with the size of the hole, because that decides the entire method. A nail hole, a doorknob dent, and a fist sized break are three different repairs, and...
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The mirrored cabinet over our bathroom sink is nine inches deep and holds more than it should. For a long time the…
Our bedroom is not large, and for two years the dresser sat where the movers put it, directly in the path between…
The hallway door in my house used to announce every trip to the bathroom. Somewhere around six in the morning it would…
Empty the shelf before you buy anything to put on it. My laundry setup is a hallway closet with a stacked washer…
Do this first: get the stain wet with cold water before you do anything else. Not hot, not soap, not scrubbing. Cold…
Start with the sink. Everything else in a nightly reset flows from that one decision, and I learned it the hard way…
Clean the tile first and the grout second, and accept that those are two different jobs with two different tools.
Measure the space before you go shopping, and measure it in three numbers, not one. Width, depth, and height. Storage bins fail…
Measure the gap above your stuff before you decide you need more storage. Most shelves carry four to nine inches of unused…