storage solutions

5 Ways to Repurpose Luxury Candle Jars

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In a recent post, I talked about how much I love luxury candles.  I mentioned that a bonus is that they often come in beautiful jars, so once you burn them up and finish enjoying their wonderful scents, you can repurpose the jars and use them to store various items.  Below are five ideas:

1. Makeup brushes and beauty tools:

Hanna's Room

2. Q-tips and cottons:

L: Trendenser, R: Skona Hem

3. Fresh flowers:

dear lovely

4. Office supplies - including pens, pencils, scissors, and paper clips:

70 Percent Pure

5. Small plants - something I hadn't thought of until I came across these images:

tutorials >> L: A Pair and a Spare DIY, R: Luxirare

Living Room Update: Media Storage

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Remember the media unit I shared a photo of in this post? Well when we first purchased it, our initial idea was to add two lower drawers for closed storage.  After trying out the drawers though, we didn't like how they looked and opted instead to keep the unit open. That meant though that we had to find alternative options for out of sight storage.

I kept an eye out for stylish boxes and bins and found some at Office Depot that were the perfect size and a lovely creamy neutral color. I went with three box bins for the upper right shelf and two document boxes for the lower left shelf. The bins now hold my husband's Xbox games, controllers, etc. out of sight while keeping them easily accessible.  The boxes hold various card and board games.   Here's how it looks:

Where do you like to store the entertainment stuff you prefer keep out of sight? Is someone in your household a gamer? Where do you store all the games and gadgets?

More home updates to come!

p.s. In case you're wondering, we don't really keep any DVDs in the media unit because most of the movies we watch nowadays are via Netflix, Zune or Blockbuster.

The folks at Office Depot sponsored this post.  All ideas/opinions/thoughts are my own.

Entryway Solution: Basket for Shoes & Slippers

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Sometimes inevitably shoes end up in the entryway.  If you don't have a closet to hide them behind, a solution for keeping it from looking too messy, is to have a beautiful basket for them:

If you have a no shoes in the house rule, you can also fill the basket with slippers to encourage guests to remove their shoes upon entering.

image credits: 1- the marion house book, 2- the elegant abode via decor8

Portable Storage Baskets

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A tote basket is a beautiful solution for containing and conveniently transporting files and/or project supplies from room-to-room.

Picture 8 image via domino

I'm loving these hand-woven fair trade imports from Tango Zulu:

P.S. You can also use 'em as market totes, magazine holders, picnic baskets...there's a multitude of uses!

Beautiful Storage: Semikolon

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home of Sabrina Linn as seen in Canadian House and Home

Chances are you've seen Semikolon boxes before. Maybe in inspirational images like the one above, or at the store {Container Store and Barnes and Noble carries them}. I had seen and admired few pieces myself here but never paid attention to who made them. When I found out a company called Semikolon made them, I immediately popped on over to their website and was in awe at how fabulously extensive their collection was. Being the geek that I am, I get excited about things like this!

semikolon-displaysemikolon-store

They make a nice variety of pieces most which come in a choice of several beautiful colors! Here's a quick look at a few:

desktopfiledocumentbox
L: desktop file; R: document box
acordionfileboldmagazinebox
L: accordion file; R: magazine box
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multimedia box
SemikolonDocumentBoxAutmnColl_x
document box
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L: photo library; R: photo box

Find Semikolon products by googling them - different retailers and online shops carry a different selection.