The last few days have been unexpectedly busy….
On Friday, we decided to let our children share a bedroom, since they had been asking for weeks. (I know, usually it’s the other way around.) They’re still little, so to them it’s “really cool”.
My son’s old room ended up becoming a playroom filled with all the toys [...]

If you’ve got plans this Saturday, February 20, 2010 from 10 am to 2 pm – and they don’t involve Home Depot – change them!!!
Kidding. But in all seriousness, I am thoroughly excited about the upcoming Do-It-Yourself Workshops at Home Depot.
I went to one of these a few months back and learned how to lay [...]

There was a long list of tasks still left to do when I last posted about  Operation: Take Back Our Home.
Sanding, painting, cleaning, organizing – OH MY!
So this week, my husband and I got ourselves in gear – and we’re almost finished!!! (Unfortunately, the number of posts here at Once Upon a Coupon has been [...]

Before Operation: Take Back Our Home, toys seemed to be everywhere in my home. We had toy boxes that my children used to store things, but still it looked like the Toy Tornado had rolled through every room.
The problem: Still not enough storage and too many toys in each room.
I definitely did not want to [...]

Ah, the coat closet. A convenient place for us to put our coats – and just about anything else, it seemed. How is it that a closet with a specific purpose turned into a resting place for so many random objects in our home?
For me, I think the reason rests on the word “convenient”. It’s [...]

Our home was starting to get more organized in Take Back Our Home – Part 3. Storage bins helped closets become organized, and the items from the freestanding cabinet started to find new homes.
In order to make this Operation successful, though, there was one key thing I had to start doing: Deciding what items would stay, [...]

At the end of Take Back Our Home – Part 2, our bathroom was finally gutted. We now had to shop for a vanity – and fast. I was also now trying to find a place to put all sorts of random items that had been stored in a 6 by 3 foot freestanding cabinet [...]

Last time in Take Back Our Home – Part 1 I talked about how linoleum floor tiles can be used to update a bathroom floor for under $25. Before I continue with the rest of our home “takeover” in Part 2, I wanted to thank a reader for her suggestion and post a picture of [...]

Our house has accumulated a lot of things. No matter what drawer, door, or storage area you open, it is packed with “stuff”. All kinds of stuff. Too much stuff.
Two weeks ago my husband and I decided to take back our home. No more clutter, no more objects taking over every nook and closet. We [...]