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7 Amazing Laundry Room Storage Ideas to Add Fun and Function

7 amazing laundry room storage ideas - Innovate Home Org Columbus Ohio
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A laundry room which is fun and functional? You may be saying right now, “Mike you’ve got to be crazy!” If your laundry room is a cluttered mess with mounds of dirty clothes which has been overtaken by un-paired socks you’re not alone. Let’s face it, the laundry room is the “Rodney Dangerfield” space of the home. It gets no respect. Is it possible to love a room which is associated with dirty laundry? Could it be possible with the right

Should Closets Be An Afterthought In New Custom Homes?

Should Closets be an Afterthought in New Custom Homes | Innovate Home Org | Columbus Closets
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Every year I attend the Columbus Parade of Homes where builders and designers show off the latest new products and interior design trends. What continues to blow me away is how I see $700,000 to over $1 million-dollar homes using cheap wire, or un-adjustable white painted pressed wood closet ‘systems’ (I use this in quotation marks because they’re not much of a system).

As an owner of a closet company (no – I’m not Jay with Pritchett’s…

Say No to the Mess. 5 Brutally Honest Questions You Need to Ask Your Closet Designer

“Turn around I HAVE to see your Butt in that dress,” the way-too-opinionated sister of the bride says. This is OUR wedding day and this dress just isn’t happening, she goes on to say.” Just another funny episode of Say Yes to The Dress.

Admit it – even if you’re not a bride to be, going to be in a bridal party or even the Mother or Father of a bride – it’s mind-blowingly funny to watch Say Yes to The Dress. Emotions on steroids. Humanity at…

3 New Years Wishes as We Hit the 2018 Reset Button

3 New Years Wishes as we Hit the 2018 Reset Button From Mike Foti Innovate Home Org Columbus Ohio
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Note - This is a personal reflection post to kick off 2018 - it does not have any home organization advice.

Whether 2017 was a stupendous success or a disastrous downer what’s true for all of us is in a few days is we get to push the reset button. We will be launched forward (ready or not, here we come) into 2018. As I start to get mentally ready for 2018 I have 3 wishes for me – and for you.

Wish #1 – Continue to have faith

It’s easy to lose…

7 biggest gaps stopping you from an organized closet

7 biggest gaps preventing you from an organized columbus closet - Innovate Home Org
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Do you know what’s making your closet disorganized today? There are gaps in your closet system. Some of these gaps (think of gaps as holes or problems) you see, many you don’t. You may be asking, “Mike – what the are you talking about? I don’t know if I see gaps. I just see a mess.”

Let’s look at a modern-day example of one system which has closed your personal “gap” in getting quicker, better and safer travel directions. This is a gap…

How to reduce the cost of a custom walk in closet

How to reduce the cost of a custom walk in closet - Innovate Home Org Columbus Ohio
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Have you dreamt about a glamorous walk in custom closet but are afraid to get prices on it because of how much it will cost? It is certainly less costly to stick with your frustrating, inflexible, builders-grade wire closet with piles of shoes haphazardly sitting on the floor, no drawers and clothes squeezed in like too many clowns in a Volkswagen. The question is, do you really want to put up with this disorganization for years to come? Why…