One of the challenges I face every day especially as small home dweller is keeping my home organized. The struggle is real! I often spend way to much time on the hunt, missing something I swear I just saw only to no longer locate it, it drives me crazy.

Sometimes it feels like me against the men I live with including our lab who’s also male! Yup, I’m totally outnumbered. If your like me and need help to create a plan to be more intentional about getting your home organized and keeping it that way. I have the perfect book for you, The Real Simple Method to Organizing Every Room: And How to Keep it that Way.

From the moment I opened the book, I was drawn in by the welcoming tone of the book, sharing organization ideas for real life. I love all the detailed pictures walking you through the process of creating an organizational system for your home that will help keeping your home clean and take less time to clean-up.

FAVORITE TAKEAWAYS: ENTRYWAY

Create an organized welcoming entryway by making the space work hard for you, creating a hub where everything has its place.

FAVORITE TAKEAWAYS: THE LIVING ROOM

Because the living room is used a family space, make sure everyone pitches in to help keep it clean. I love this idea! Before going to bed, take a few moments in the evening to clear the coffee table completely off and don’t transfer clutter to another location!

FAVORITE TAKEAWAYS: THE JUNK DRAWER

Remove the junk from the junk drawer and keep the drawer organized by only keeping what’s essential and a little spot for miscellaneous items.

A SURPRISE INSIDE

On a side note, I’m so excited to share a surprise in The Real Simple Method to Organizing Every Room, my kitchen is on page 71! And Avery’s bedroom is on page 216!! He was so excited to see his bedroom in the book!

BOOK GIVEAWAY DETAILS!

I’m hosting the Giveaway on Instagram. Below are the deets to participate in the Giveaway.

The Real Simple Method to Organizing Every Room: Giving away Two Books, One for you & One for a Friend!

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This Giveaway will run on Instagram Friday 9/14/18 6:00 am PST to Monday 9/17/18 10:00 pm PST. The winner will be chosen at random, I will direct message the winner(s) on Monday 9/18/18. In order to enter the giveaway, your profile must be public for the duration of the contest. You must live in the US to enter. For more entry details, hop over to my Instagram @TheKatrinaBlair

As I mentioned earlier this month, I partnered with 1StopLighting.com to give my small master bathroom a refresh. For a long time, it felt like my bathroom was stuck at a midway point and had no clear design direction and while I liked the main bathroom elements, subway tile in the shower and hex tile on the floors and bathroom vanity. Overall everything felt flat. I love pretty lighting and knew finding the perfect bathroom vanity lighting would help give the entire room an updated look.

After putting looking at bathroom lighting ideas on 1StopLighting.com I was able to narrow down the style I had in mind, a modern gold light fixture. I love how easy is to navigate their site and filter down to the light fixture style you had in mind. In addition to offering amazing lighting deals, they also have a large selection of mirror styles. I put together a few lighting and mirror combinations, which help me create the design plan for my bathroom, read more about my design plan here.

DESIGN ELEMENTS

Here’s a quick recap of my bathroom design plans, update lighting, mirror, and bathroom hardware. Paint the bathroom vanity black and add trim on the drawers to create more depth, in addition, freshen room up with paint and a new shower curtain and new bathroom hardware.

I’m so excited to share how my updated Master Bathroom and how we tackled this project on a budget! I can’t get over how incredible my bathroom feels and looks, it went from so-so to inviting and feeling more luxe! I’m so excited to share the process of transforming this little space. Here’s a quick reminder of how my bathroom looked. Not bad, but in real life felt like a snoozefest.

MASTER BATHROOM BEFORE

MASTER BATHROOM AFTER

To give my bathroom vanity more depth, I added 1x2 lattice on the flat panel drawers giving the appearance of shaker style. This is a great way to add visual interest on otherwise boring drawers. I used wood filler to fill in the gaps of the wood trim and also filled the holes in the old cabinet hardware.

Next, I tapped off the area in my bathroom and painted the cabinet Tricorn Black by Sherwin Williams, I used to paint in one primer. Although I love grey cabinets, this color felt off in my bathroom and I knew going with black cabinets would help ground the area and create depth in this small bathroom. I gave my vanity three coats of paint, lightly sanded before each coat and waiting for 24 hrs before applying the last coat of paint.

We made a 12th-hour decision to replace the old vanity top with a pretty stunning Scintillante Bianco Polished Marble. The new counter is amazing, it has a clean white background with flecks of grey throughout and almost sparkles. Next, my husband installed the new bathroom faucet. I love mixing metals and adore the look of polished chrome paired with the gold elements in my bathroom.

After the sink and vanity were completed, Hasani installed the new light fixture. The light is incredible and feels modern and gives off the amazing light! I love how it looks paired with the gold mirror, also from 1StopLighting. I’m waiting for one key element in my bathroom to arrive, the new roman shade. I went back and forth between a natural roman shade and a fabric woven shade, I ultimately decided on a simple natural shade that will complement the woven baskets in my bathroom. below is a closer look.

MASTER BATHROOM DETAILS

I adore the gold glided mirror, the curve is so pretty! I should mention the mirror is very heavy and a two person job in install.

I love the gold matte light fixture, it feels modern and polished, I also love the generous size of the shades. When it comes to bathroom lighting, I'm all about frosted glass. It's so easy on the eyes. We also installed a swing-out vanity mirror! Perfect for shaving, applying makeup and doing my eyebrows.

I love how this space turned out! I walk in here and can’t believe how good everything looks! Now for more exciting news for Labor Day weekend, 1Stoplighting.com has significant sales, and they want to give you a discount, use the code KBLAIR from now until Tuesday, September 4, 2018, and save 20% off!! This means my beautiful bathroom mirror is under $175 for a few days only and my pretty light fixture is also on sale, under $100!! Hop over to their site to check out their fantastic deals, also, their customer service representatives will be on hand to answer questions about their products. Never underestimate the power the right light fixture has in updating a space!

Next week, I'm sharing how I organized my small master bathroom to make it more efficient for my husband and myself, plus breaking the budget down! What do you think of my bathroom update? What room in your home needs a lighting refresh?