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!
What about a black and white checkerboard strip across the middle panel (or maybe it’s a stile) of the locker doors. That would bring some black from the other side of the room over without it being overwhelming.
I Love the Black and would keep them.. I think it gives the room a rich look…
If it was me I think I would have to paint all of the cabinets white to match.
I love the black with the white! I like that the rug connects the two. I think all white may be too much…wish this was my laundry room!
Jessica @ Mom 4 Real
If you are worried about too much white…what about distressing the cabinets. It will give them some character but the white will still keep them light and airy.
I don’t have any input on color but I’m blown away by the locker transformation. Those are just the thing I would have a hard time passing up but I don’t know if I would know what to do with them or how to beautify them as you did. Awesome. Truly.
I wonder if that’s true for all WP blogs! I follow several of them. Hope they won’t all disappear from my reader! (may free up some time though, lol but I like wasting my time with blogs! :) )
Those lockers are amazing!! {curious what you store in all of them with so many endless possibilities!}
I personally wouldn’t do white or black- i may go with something in between and do a light grey {looks like the cabinets across from lockers are grey? maybe a shade lighter so the room stays bright} I thought of this when you mentioned wanting to add some pops of brighter color like blue or yellow, grey is a good contrast with those colors {I think! ha}
No matter which way you go – this room and its functionality is wonderful!! :)
(Colleen) @ PaRtY of 5!
An idea would be to do some stenciling or design on the cabinets and/or lockers using black and white. That might tie everything together!
I say leave the cabinets black. I have some black furniture (that I painted black) and I LOVE it. I don’t think your cabinets are too heavy in the room at all! I love the way your laundry loom looks now, and adding a bit of color to the walls will make it even better. If you’re still on the fence about it, paint the wall color first, then decide about the black cabinets.
I think I would do one set of the cabinets gray.
I think you’ve done a good job blending the black and white in a nice proportion. Leave it as is, and add a bit of color!
I like the black cabinets, they look awesome! I would add a dark glaze to the locker panels to help tie them in with the cabinets. The whole room is amazing and it’s giving me some ideas for my laundry room. Thanks!
I LOVE the look of upper cabinets being a different color than the lowers! If I was you, I would paint the uppers white it would help tie in the lockers. I still think the space looks awesome just the way it is. I can’t wait to see what you decide on!
I like all the ideas above, you have awesome readers! On second thought, I would add your color first then decide (like mentioned above). What about this option, paint the washer/dryer “stand” black, keep lower cabinets & shelf black, and paint uppers white to match the lockers?! Good luck deciding, I would definately struggle with this!
Would keep the black and white. Maybe you could bring a little more black to the locker side of the room with some black accent pieces or black storage baskets on top of the lockers. Wish this was my room. Love it! :) Good luck with your decision!
I think this is what all laundry room dream to look like! Keep the cabinets black, they look great. Your curtains do a nice job of pulling both colors together. I’ve seen two tones of cabinets in a lot of kitchen magazines in recent years and think your room brings that to mind. Just beautiful!
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All white for sure! It will give the space some consistency and make it look bright and happy. I think it will look good with the accent colors too.
What about painting the lockers a nice grey? It would hide fingerprints and not look so stark. I cannot tell what colors are in the curtains but you could pull a color out of the curtains and paint the cabinets that color. Just a thought. I like the crispness of the white but I also know it’s hard to have a family around white cabinets. Especially in a busy “work” area.
I like the idea of adding some color to the walls. I love, love the dark cabinets and think the contrast looks great! With the rug and curtains you have done a great job of tying everything together. I wish this were my laundry room as well! Of course, I have loved all of your home projects so I know it will look great however you finish it. Keep us posted. I am excited to see what you decide!
I like it the way it is. The black and white tie together nicely with the curtain and rug.
I love white, and I would probably just do all white myself… Maybe adding some vinyl decals to break up all the white. Damask patterns in the whimsical blue and yellow colors you talked about adding in? The great thing about vinyl is that is isn’t permanent! It can change as your style evolves!
Why not bring in the blue or yellow on the cabinets that are now black? There isn’t much wall space in there and you could end up with strips of color instead of a more harmonious flow. That is a lot of work of course but I think worth it.
I like that you have black in there. So I liked the idea by one of you previous readers to paint the pedastool black and the cabinets above the washer and dryer white. Then you can keep the black, but it’s a little more consistent. That was a great suggestion.
I love the black\white color combination; it is something that always appeals to designers. I think that what you have right now is a beautiful backdrop and to infuse color into the room, you should add accessories. Choose your favorite color (since everything goes with black & white). Buy a runner rug in that color or with tons of different colors…sew a ribbon stripe or two on your black & white curtains…Add accessories on top of the lockers (you used to have boxes and a sign on top). Buy an oversize cookie jar in your favorite color and fill it full of Tide & set it on top of your washer. And ART, don’t forget something pretty and inspiring to look at as you fold, sort, and hang up your clothes.
Harlequin! On the inside panel of the lockers…any color combo with the white…I think if you painted those lockers black, it’d be too much. Wish I had your laundry room!
I haven’t read prior comments so I apologize if this is suggested already. What about distressing the lockers and top cabinets with dark wax and leaving the bottom cabinets black? That will pull some of the stark white out while not adding too much black. I haven’t used it but I’ve read nothing but good things about Anne Sloans dark wax…
I say keep the cabinetry white. Add your pops of color through paint on the walls, the rug or the curtains. When you have a neutral main pallete (as in the big pieces in a room) it’s easy to change out colors that suit you at that moment without breaking the bank with accessories. i.e. the rug, the curtains, the wall paint.
For my style, I’d leave the cabinets white, get some color on the curtains, and get a fun pendant lamp. It would make the room much more fun to be in.
Amy your lockers are AWESOME! Your laundry room is looking fab. I might actually WANT to do laundry if mine looked like that! ;)
I *LOVE* your laundry room! I was thinking that maybe just painting the recesses in all the doors the opposing color. And I agree about painting the platform black but leave the cabinets above black. I love the idea of yellow in the room. It’s such a cheery color and in the laundry room anyone could use some cheer! Great work! Can’t wait to see what y’all do!
Thank you Tara. I have seen where the recesses of the cabinets have been painted. It does add a lot of interest to them. That is a good idea. I DO LOVE me some yellow too. It was the color I picked for my bedroom when I was a little girl…still one of my favorite colors.
I had a similar problem with some old hand-me-down furniture. I painted it white, and it was just to plain. I ended up getting some cheap contact paper and covered the sides and the front panels. Everyone loved it. The best part is the paper can be easily peeled off and replaced for a new updated look.
That is a great idea Ann. I especially love that it is not permament…as I obviously like to change things up :). They do have a lot of fun styles of contact paper now too.
I wouldn’t change anything , I aboslutely love the room. I always get inspired by your creativity and taste. I really like the colors, they all come together so nicely.
I know you like Mythic paints, have you used them for this project? What is the color for the walls? Very nice!
I was wondering if there were directions for the washer/dryer raise? I saw it on pintrest, & would love to make 1, but wasn’t sure how difficult it’d be. Right now, I can’t have 1, but when we move, if there’s room, I’d love to make 1 so my units don’t tear up the floor (plus I was wondering if the raise is mobile, or if its screwed/nailed to the floor)…..lots of questions :)
I like the cabinets painted as they are. Every designer we have talked to tells us that the cabinets should not be too matchy matchy. That wood and/or color should be different. The nice thing about white and black is that you could really use any color on the walls. Have you considered a darker warm grey? That is really “in” right now and would “tie” your white and black together. You have enough light in that room to pull it off. Thanks for the great blog!
I like the ratio of black to white, and think you’re on the right track with throwing pops of color into the room. If you go all white on the cabinets over the units, I think you’re going to have to ditch your paint color or you’ll end up with much less interest. Every home should have a real laundry room like this one!
You have inspired me! I love the turn out of your laundry room, it is beautiful, elegant and yet somehow still a luandry room. I am wishing for a updated laundry room…My laundry room is the main entrance to my home which every guests sees…it is gloomy, dirty because their is two doors in that room so alot of outside dirt enters in, and I would love to LOVE to do my laundry with a smile…I think brightening and updating that room would help! So please help me!!
Amazing how you turned a typical dreary but functional laundry room into a joy to look at, and I am sure, a joy to use!
Whatever really motivated u to write “to paint or
not to paint… – The Idea Room”? I reallycertainly adored it!
Regards ,Karina