5 Design Pros (and Moms!) Share Their Organizing Tips for Every Room

Photo by: Holly Bohn Weiss

1. Manage artwork

The founder of the modern office supply company seejanework.com, Holly Bohn-Weiss, devised a few clever solutions to deal with the paper clutter chaos that comes from raising three kids. "At the beginning of the school year, I set up two document boxes for each child: one temporary and one permanent. At the end of each term, we go through the box together and pick two special things to keep.

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Photo by: Holly Bohn Weiss

1. Manage artwork

The founder of the modern office supply company seejanework.com, Holly Bohn-Weiss, devised a few clever solutions to deal with the paper clutter chaos that comes from raising three kids. "At the beginning of the school year, I set up two document boxes for each child: one temporary and one permanent. At the end of each term, we go through the box together and pick two special things to keep. The rest goes in the recycle bin." Office Depot's See Jane Document Box.

2. Reclaim the kitchen table

Bohn-Weiss's children used to do their homework at the kitchen table at the same time she was trying to prep dinner, so she got a writing desk with a small footprint for them in the living room instead. "It looks like a sofa table, but it can serve as a homework table," she says.

3. Organize children's books

"My three-year-old's books are hard to organize because they're so small. I keep them in magazine files on the bookshelf and sort them by subject. It looks much neater, and you can even label the files with an image instead of a word so your child pick the book they want to read."

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