Learn how you can get your home organized with my easy step-by-step organization course. My course is full of organization ideas as well as home organization tips and tricks to get your life and home organized and keep it that way.
ONLINE DECLUTTERING COURSE
For the past several months I have been putting together my Online Organization Course, The Balanced Home. I am excited to teach you my decluttering and cleaning process. These processes also teach you how to create simple routines and cleaning schedules which allow you to naturally maintain your clean and organized home.
No need to hire a professional organizer, or live with the clutter because you will have the skills and learn how to overcome any mental barriers or fears you might have to get started!
WHAT DOES THE ORGANIZATION COURSE COVER?
The Balanced Home Organization Core
($1,000 Value)Contains my core Decluttering and Organization Processes, which shows you how to:
- Learn how to declutter and organize your home–by learning processes and techniques that really work!
- Deal with stuff you don’t know how to get rid of
- Understand what qualifies as hoarding
- Understand how to overcome hoarding tendencies
- Deal with your junk room or junk drawer
The Tools
- Workbook, Resources, Labels, and More ($250 Value). Contains everything you need to help guide you through each lesson, including:
- An easy-to-follow workbook to guide you step-by-step through the lessons
- Printable Labels
- A vision sheet for your home
- A working checklist of tasks you can accomplish in 30 minutes or less
- Shopping and To-Do Lists
- Monthly Calendar and Weekly Schedule
The Mental Foundation
The best processes to overcome mental barriers from Tony Robbins and Dean Graziosi’s Mastermind Course ($200 Value). Helps you to find the time, the energy and the motivation to organize your home by:
- Discovering your “true, internal why” -> what motivates you to want an organized home
- Helping you clearly identify what is holding you back from success
- Teaching you how to organize your schedule to create new pockets of time
- Helping you discover what is most important for you to accomplish with your time, as opposed to just urgent or habit
- Helping you cut out the things that aren’t important and identify gaps in your schedule you can dedicate to working on your home
Your Ideal Home
The best processes to set and achieve your vision by breaking it down into actionable steps ($300 Value). Teaches you how to break down an overwhelming project into small, manageable steps, by:
- Clearly defining your goal and vision for your home
- Learning how to evaluate specific rooms and identify what you want to be improved
- Identifying specific, easy to complete tasks in each room that will contribute to your overall goal without overwhelming you
- Getting your family or others involved in the process
Cleaning and Maintaining
The best processes to clean and maintain your home after it has been organized ($200 Value).Teaches you how to maintain your home once it is clean and keep it organized, by:
- Providing you with the basic cleaning routines you need to naturally stay in control of your home
- Teaching you my amazing “Ten-Minute Clean-up” process, which allows you to clean an entire floor / room in ten minutes or less!
- Showing you how to establish routines with your kids and other members of the family
- Sharing important resources such as chore cards, favorite cleaning products, and a deep-cleaning checklist, and more
- Explaining the laundry routine we use in our home to get our laundry done every week without even thinking about it
- Teaching you how to deep clean your home after it has been decluttered and organized
- Showing you how to help the other members of your household be on the same page and not “unclean” your home
During the course, we will:
- Show you the process of how to go throughout your home decluttering, cleaning, and organizing. Then you can take this process and go throughout all the rooms in your home–including the bathrooms, kitchen, craft room, home office, basement, entryway, playroom, garage, attic, and all other rooms in your home–cleaning and organizing.
- Clean out and organize not just the rooms themselves, but organization spaces such as closets, shelves, drawers, and bookshelves.
- Learn how to properly use organization equipment, such as bins, drawer organizers, storage bins, food storage containers, lids, and baskets.
The Private Balanced Home Community
(BONUS – Priceless). Provides a community that you can go to whenever you need a place where you…
- Seek inspiration and ideas from others
- Receive support and motivation from others
- Share your successes and see the successes of others as we all work towards finding balance and clarity in our homes.
- Can ask questions and let me know what you may still need help with so that I can continue to cater the course to your needs
What Do People Have To Say About My Organization Course?
“This course was instrumental in helping me organize my space as well as my time. As a busy mom, I have a better grasp on what my days need to include so that I can enjoy my family rather than spend my time spinning my wheels cleaning up after everyone.”
“The Balanced Home Course helped me to be the “professional organizer” for my family! Simple steps to follow, check lists, printable labels, suggestions and worksheets will keep you on track to successfully maintain your own balanced home.”
“I am pretty sure I have solved more issues with the seven layers and clarity tool than I have in 6 months of therapy!! I think this course is going to help much more than my home. Thanks Amy!!!!”
When I realized I had been overcomplicating the idea of organization, that simplifying was a key component, then things really started to fall into place!”
When I realized I had been overcomplicating the idea of organization, that simplifying was a key component, then things really started to fall into place!””
HOW TO GET MOTIVATED TO ORGANIZE YOUR HOME
HOW TO OVERCOME FEARS AND MENTAL BARRIERS
I asked and these are the things that are holding you back from getting started! I made sure my course helped you overcome your specific fears and developed processes to address each of the concerns below. Have you ever had any of the same concerns?
- “I don’t have the time.”
- “I don’t know how to break it down into manageable chunks.”
- “How do I balance other activities?”
- “I don’t have enough energy / motivation.”
- “I’m overwhelmed and don’t know where to start.”
- “I’m scared / unable to commit.”
- “I don’t trust myself.”
- “I don’t have the confidence I will finish.”
- “How do I maintain / keep on top of it?”
- “I have a hard time with inconsistency / finding balance.”
- “I’m afraid of quitting too soon and having it be a mess.”
- “How do I build the habits and routines?”
- “Keeping it clean and organized”“Staying focused and not getting distracted.”
- “What if I have physical limitations.”
- “I don’t have the supplies / resources / money (i.e. containers etc.) / storage space.”
- “I don’t want to part with things.”
- “What Do I do with all the stuff? Donate? Kids?”
- “What if I need it later?”
- “My family has stuff they want to keep.”
- “Family is not being helpful or even counterproductive… How do I get my family on board?”
- “No sense of design / vision for what I want.”
- “Lack of knowledge.”
- “Afraid of not doing it right.”
- “Being okay with not having it perfect.”
STILL NOT READY TO BUY?
Because I know that sometimes it can be difficult to take that initial leap of faith, I wanted to give you something that would allow you to get your feet wet a little, something that you could access RIGHT NOW. I think you’ll like it. I’ve opened up a “sneak peek” section of my course, where you can access one or two of the lessons that are a part of The Balanced Home Course. If you click the button below you will be able to create your own personal account / log in for the course and access the “sneak peek” videos.
OTHER ORGANIZATION PROJECTS
If you are interested in taking a deeper look into some of the spaces in my home, check out the following posts!
I want to paint mine yellow! :) I’m just a bit nervous about it.
We painted ours yellow this spring and I love it! We had to test a ton of colors because yellow can be tricky. We’he had a ton of compliments on it, do I say do it. It’s just paint so it’s easy to change.
What yellow did you use? I have been thinking about doing yellow for some time now!! :)
a girl in our neighborhood painted hers yellow and its awesome!! Mine is Tardis Blue but i want to paint it purple.
Sounds amazing! You should do it!!
Amy- You really should!
I just bought doors from Lowes, they are already in the frame. Do you think this will be okay to paint without removing them from the frame?? Also, do you recommend I lay the door flat, or stand it up straight? I have to paint these within the next couple days, because they are being installed on the 22nd of June!
If given a choice to lay the door flat or paint vertically I would for sure choose to lay it flat. For me it would be easier and would be a lot less prone for drips. Good Luck!
I’m hanging two front doors.
I need to plug the hardware holes in one of them
Is ban-do (the epoxy used on car’s repair) OK? or there are other products in the market
Thanks
Hugo- I think a Wood Filler would work just fine for that. Then you can paint it after. Great question.
Thanks for the how-to. We put new hardware on our front door last week which is a different shape than our old hardware. Looks like our builder put the hardware on and then painted the door. So…now we need to repaint. I am loving the black front door on your house. It looks fabulous!
We had the same thing and had to sand and fill with a little putty in a couple of small areas.
It looks great!! I want to paint my door yellow! Where did you find the “H”? I’ve been looking for a “P” for a while now and haven’t found the perfect one!
I bought my “H” rug at Bed Bath & Beyond.
I got the H at Hobby Lobby. It was gold and I spray painted it silver!
Where did you find the wreath?
My husband recently painted our front door black and I love it! Love your new look too. Next we move on to painting the outside of the house. Can’t wait to see our final look later this summer.
I’ve been wanting to paint my door and shutters black so this post comes at the perfect time for me. I’ll be painting my door black on the outside, but white on the inside to match all my other indoor doors.
oh – I’d love to know where you got the H. I would love to find a D for our home.
Hobby Lobby!!
This may be a silly question, but is that a metal or wood door? We bought a house in December, and I’ve been trying to talk my husband into painting the front door for months. I’m a little more adventurous than he is, so it’s been challenging. After a lot of decorating and such, I think I’ve talked him into letting me paint it an acid green color. Keep your fingers crossed! I’ve given up on my original color…PURPLE!
Good Luck with your new color! Wish I was a little more adventerous myself! Black is about as crazy as I get LOL!! The door is metal.
I have a metal door and I happened upon these strong magnet wreath holders at Joanns. Strong magnet covered in plastic with a hook to hold the wreath. They held my wreath at Christmas without falling off. Just in case the over the door one doesn’t work with certain wreaths. Thanks for the post. I love the color of the paint, seems to dry a soft black, would you agree?
Thanks so much for the tips!! And yes…I love the soft black color of the door. It is a more matted and soft black! :)
Purple is a GREAT front door color. We had a sage green house with a purple front door and now we moved after 17years and our door is an electric blue with a light grey house (very New England). I am in the mist of painting it purple. It’s like a tradition? But it added personality and pop with out too much dedication. I found the perfect purple/ mauve bedroom color! So sexy and modern without feeling cold. We are totally redoing every room in the house. Finishing bathroom cabinets and front door. Spraying all the hardware and refining what we had into different rooms. It’s bee super fun with Pinterest!
mines Tardis blue (original) and I want Purple. Purple is very insightful and magical!
I won’t judge you for having a Christmas wreath on your front door in May…I still have my Christmas tree up! Not because I want to, but because life just has been too hectic for the last 5 months to take it down. It IS coming down tomorrow though…finally.
If I could get the hubs to let me paint our front door, it would either be black or barn red. Love both. Now…to get the HOA’s approval, that’s completely another story. Oh well.
Thanks for the tips! We bought all new 6-panel doors for our entire house so we’ve been busy trying to paint them for months. It’s a lot of work!
It is a lot of work for sure. Wow! Good Luck. I am sure it will be fabulous once they are all finished!
Thanks for this. Our front door is still primed, I’m embarrassed to say. Luckily for us, a white front door looks fine on our house, but I want COLOR! I feel much more confident about paintinging it now.
These kind of projects always seem to fall to the bottom of the to do list! So glad I could help!
Love this post! We bought our house house two years ago and I hate my ugly gray door. I have been wanting to paid it black, but lacked the courage to try. After reading this , I just might go for it!
Is your door a steel door? Mine is steel and I am wondering if it would still work?
Is this for a metal door? Our door is metal and painting the front door is on my to do list once the kids are back in school.
Yes!! Our front door is metal!
Does it have to match your brick I have just a beige door when we bought house and I want to paint my door the brick is kind ofdeepburgandy ,i could send a picture too
Did you sand between coats?
No we did not. However, if you have a small spot or area where the paint drips you can do a little sanding to fix that between coats.
Hey Julia. Dont feel bad My front door ha shad primer only on it for 2 years now. LOL! I always have a problem picking out paint colors. I think i want a pretty blue on it. Maybe, Not sure as usual. I love the black door, but I dont think its what I personally like. Im more about beachy cottagey colors.
Great job on the door! My question is about the odor. I just painted half of my door going out into the garage with the rustoleum door paint because our garage door is metal. The only problem is that the odor from the oil paint is all over the house even though I opened the windows and garage door to air it out. I noticed that you painted your entire inside and outside with the rustoleum paint as well and was wondering if the smell was just as over powering?
By adding two Tablespoons of Vanilla to the paint, the smell is vanquished. This does not change any properties of the paint, just the smell.
Karen- I love this tip! Thank you for sharing!
I have been wanting to paint my youngsters door black for sometime now! Thanks for sharing it’s absolutely beautiful!
Correction to my previous post it should say ” ugly green” door lol dang spell correct :-)
I’m curious about the odor too. I am planning on doing the inside of the front door black but have a hard time with chemical odors and have a super small house
It does have a strong paint odor. Even a few days after painting…so that might be something you need to think about.
Hi! Did you paint the inside too? Or leave it white? Also-did you do the edges where the door goes into the frame?
I did the paint the inside and the sides of the door in the door frame.
It looks beautiful. I have been wanting to paint my front door. I found the perfect color. It’s called Morning Glory (Blue). I hope mine looks half as nice as yours when finished!
So glad I saw this! I’ve got 2 metal doors that are starting to get “rust”spots so I’ve wondered about painting them! Know I know I will be ASAP. Recovering from shoulder surgery so as soon as I can raise my arm lol…I’m going to get busy sanding! And black will most likely be my color to match window frames (also needing a paint job is my shutters which are white but want them black! Then again this may need to start white since porch rails/pillars are white. Regardless….I’m motivated now!
How do you make the wreath??
What color black paint did you use? Also, what brand was the black paint? I love the way it turned out!
How many hours did it take to dry between coats? Love it. Want my doors black also.
I let it dry a full 24 hours!
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is your door made of wood?
It is metal!
I love your door! We are looking for new doors. I currently have double (metal) doors but they’re pretty dated. I am torn over whether or not to do double doors again or 1 single door with glass side features like you have. My preference would be one door if I could figure out where to buy the side pieces to fill in the space. Do you have any suggestions? Thanks for sharing, and…love the black door!
Hi Amy,
Beautiful door and entry! We currently have double doors with no accent features, i.e., windows, etc. We are trying to decide on replacing with double doors (nice for getting furniture in and out of the house) or a single with side features like you have. Any thoughts? I would also love to know where you purchased your black chairs? Thanks again for sharing :)
our door is black outside beacause HOA says its black! but what I was surprised about was….why did you paint the inside of your door black?…..usually you would paint the inside white or a color to go with the living area…..but black? just saying….
I painted it because I wanted to…and I LOVE it :)
Was the front door painted on the inside as well?
Yes! You don’t have too of course…but I wanted mine black inside as well!
Just painted ours black and wondering where you purchased the silver letter?
Your door looks perfect. I love black color. Your tips are veryyy helpful. In my opinion the most important thing is to clean precisely the door. If there is some dirt on it , it will make your project a disaster. Greetings!
I am new at painting doors. I just painted my two steel entry doors. The color I chose was royal blue. THe outside of my house is a steel gray blue. What color do I paint the door frame where the hinges and door handle catches are. Do I paint it to match the door or the outside of the house? Thanks for any help you can give me.
How did you paint the numbers on? Looks amazing. Thanks
I just used vinyl decals for the numbers.
Do you paint the edges of the door to match the outside or inside, ie: the edge where the latch goes and the door shuts. Thanks
I painted it the outside color. But you could really do either. Thanks.
Do you paint the edges of the door to match the outside or inside, ie: the edge where the latch goes and the door shuts. Thanks
I would paint all the 6 panel wooden doors in my home that are now stained. I dread the brush strokes! A Finish Max sprayer would be a dream come true.
Thanks for the great suggestion!
Do you paint the edges of the door to match the outside or inside, ie: the edge where the latch goes and the door shuts. Thanks
You can do either. I have done both in the past.
Hi. I found this advice really useful as I am about to paint the front door of my Irish 18c cottage – black !!!
Ann- So happy you found this post helpful! Love a black door!
Did you prime first? I love it and am going to paint mine black this week!
Yes, I did prime it first. I love black as well!
This is some really good information about painting your front door. It is good to know that it would be smart to use an oil-based paint on your door. I didn’t realize that type of paint would make the paint more durable.
Ivy- Good to know. Thank you.
Your door is lovely! What is the finish of your handleset? Is it brass? The link to Lowe’s is not working for me. Thanks so much!
It is a brushed nickel finish. I will see if I can find the link again.
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Thank you.
Loved the tips to paint a door. I have been trying different texture techniques as I’m fond of art styles.
Sam-So happy you found these tips useful!