I have to admit it, when my wife Rose was pregnant with our first son, Grant, and she (like 93% of the women who buy a book about pregnancy) toted around What to Expect When You’re Expecting, I had ZERO desire to crack it open and start digging in.

Call me your typical irresponsible dude, but I thought we’d figure out this kid thing as we went along. After all – how hard can be, said the naïve first-time Father.

Fortunately for me, Rose was more…

Too many things to do and too little time to do them. Such is the nature of your way-too-busy life. As you enter the New Year with a boatload of good intentions you know the challenge. You run out of real estate (another word for time) before you’re able to conquer everything on your New Year’s resolution list. One of the top items on most lists (after getting into shape – gym memberships will be exploding in January, losing weight and…

“All closet systems are basically the same,” the confident woman said to me. “They are just a bunch of white shelves stacked on top of one another.”

As a designer and owner of a custom closet business in Columbus and Cleveland Ohio hearing this was like nails on a chalkboard for me. When I stopped to think about it – I can see how at first glance, closets can look pretty generic. Many are white, have a bunch of shelves, some closet rods…

Who can raise their hand today and say they love how organized their closet is? Most people will apologize and refer to their closets as a mess or disaster preceded by some “choice” words I can’t print here.

While it’s easy to look at your closet today and know it’s not going to transform itself into a Kim Kardashian-esque celebrity closet any time soon (OK – probably never if we’re keeping it real!), but there are some insanely simple…

It doesn’t take a crack detective to uncover a bad closet design. They are everywhere. Sagging closet rods bowing south from too much weight. Nasty lines on sweaters from wire shelving. Piles of shoes scattered in the darkest recesses of your closet floor because there is no place else to put them. What can you do to reinvigorate your walk in (or reach in) closet and make it a place you enjoy using?

Blowing up your bad closet design and…

I met Jaclyn at the new home she and her husband Fred just purchased to design a new closet system. Mind you this home had an “organization system” in the master bedroom closet provided by a well-known (and well respected) national home builder. It’s a nice looking white laminate closet which is even adjustable. You might be saying right now, “So Mike, what’s wrong with that?” Well nothing except that the only thing in this closet…