Now you’ve seen some before pictures of our new house, and clearly we have a lot of work to do!  I knew I was going to have to put a system in place to help me keep track of all the paint colors, swatches, inspirational ideas, diagrams, and budgets I would be working with.  But before we get to how I’m organizing all that, I want to show you how I organized all the paperwork of actually buying the house!

Here is the binder I assembled for all the mortgage paperwork.  Since we did purchase a short-sale home – there was a ton of paperwork.  There is a lot of paperwork when buying any home, but there is even more when buying a short-sale!

Ok –enough of the boring mortgage paperwork-  now on the the fun stuff!

I decided the best way to keep everything straight was to divide up the projects by room.  I had this accordion file folder that matched the binder I used above (both are from Target.)

I labeled each section a different room and that is where I keep anything I need to reference for that specific room.  I also made a “General Tips” section. Here I file ideas and inspirations that could help with the house as a whole.  Like an article of how to remove wallpaper!  Obviously we can use that for every room!

Here are some of our color schemes:

Our Bedroom:

Olivia’s Bedroom:

Living Room:

I am using the floor plan of the house and diagrams I drew of some of our rooms a lot.  I need to access them when I am at stores, like Home Depot, a store I am very acquainted with these days.  On a separate trip to Target (I was looking for some new throw pillows for our couch – more on that later) I saw this!  Perfect for holding the floor plans and diagrams AND has a clipboard on the front AND has a built in notebook for To-Do lists AND it matched all my other stuff.  ME = HAPPY.

That’s how I’m keeping organized.  Are you remodeling, redecorating or reorganizing? How are you storing all the information you need at your finger tips?  Leave me a comment and let me know – I love hearing about other people’s organizational systems!

As always, thanks for stopping by and reading.