Favorite Home & Garden Articles

As I continue to look back on my favorite posts during my website’s anniversary week, I’m thrilled to share our favorite home & garden makeover articles.  So read on to see some great home decor ideas (inside and outside the home) that filled our Home & Garden section over the last two years… Home & […]

Your Top Read Managedmoms Articles & Happy 2nd Anniversary!

To celebrate my website’s 2nd anniversary and to welcome our recent subscribers, I have decided to share a few of our reader’s favorite posts that have appeared in the last two years.  Take a look to see if there is a home decor idea, tasty recipe, beauty piece or something else that you missed.  And […]

Product Picks & Pans

Manic:  Sorting through some of the different smart phones on the market, understanding the new Keurig Vue coffee maker and more.  It seems like products are upgrading and changing (iPhone 4S to iPhone 5; Keurig’s new Vue) by the minute, so I end up testing a lot of products for this website and for my […]

Awesome Project For Recycling/Saving Kids’ Sports Jerseys!

Manic:  After years of hockey, our son’s jerseys are taking up space and this is space in my home that I want back, but parting with these jerseys is sentimental and may not be what my son has in mind, either. Managed:  Sharing a great YouTube video from my gal pal, the very talented Lisa […]

My Tween’s $119 Budget Bed Buying & Selling Success Story

Manic:  How fast our kids grow and how their tastes and style change just as fast resulting in our daughter asking for a new bed to suit her new style.  My initial reaction was no way as her current bed was only a couple of years old and I didn’t want to spend money on […]

Bold and Bright Bedroom Design Ideas

Manic:  My house in the last couple of years because my kids’ numerous activities and crazy schedules have resulted in my time being spent more in the car and less in my home! Managed:  Finally made some time over the last few months to work on my home.  Decluttering, organizing and doing some updated home […]

Our Powder Room Mini Makeover

Manic:  Our downstairs guest powder room!  After living in our home for 7 years, the wallpaper was peeling off and was filled with unsightly streaks of soap and water stains near the sink!  I dreaded it when guests needed to use the bathroom. Managed:  Asking my family for a bathroom makeover for my birthday gift […]

Six Easy Steps to Transform Your Living Room

Manic:  My mind when I think about how I want to update my home decor on a limited budget and with very little free time to do so! Managed:  Received a great article about how to transform a living room with a few simple steps from guest writer Justin Greig. Justin says: Transform any living […]

Organize & Hide Those Annoying Cords with this Cool Tip

Manic:  Cords, cords everywhere making an otherwise neat room look messy! Managed:  Managedmoms.com home decor and get organized expert, Bridget shares what she did to hide her home office cords and it looks great!  Take a look… Bridget says: One thing that has always bothered me is the look of cords hanging on the floor, […]

An Easy Laundry Room Makeover

Manic:  My laundry room that houses the laundry, a washer, a dryer, cat food and cat litter! Managed:  Getting some great ideas from our home & garden and get organized expert, Bridget!  The picture below is not of my laundry room (I’m working on that), but of hers and it looks great!  Check out the […]

An Easy Door Makeover – Design on a Dime Idea!

Manic:  Any type of home improvement project makes me anxious, because I simply don’t possess those skills, but our managedmoms.com home, garden and organization expert does!  And she makes it easy for a novice like me! Managed:  Asking that expert, Bridget to share a simple idea that she recently had that turned a drab door […]

Design on a Dime Home Office Floor Makeover

Manic:  Anything that is a home improvement project!  I simply don’t possess those skills! Managed:  Being inspired by managedmoms.com contributor and design on a dime expert, Bridget!  When she recently told me about how she ripped out her home office flooring to install a new one, I was quite…well…floored!  This is something that I could […]

Make Your Backyard Pop with Paint!

Manic:  Tending to the many flowers and plants as they bloom and blossom in our lovely days of Spring that have arrived….and figuring out how to get my plants and flowers to really show up against the big brick wall that separates our yards from the others in the neighborhood. Managed:  Finding an inexpensive and […]

Your Top 10 Most Read 2011 Articles Of All & Today’s Winner!!

I hope you all have enjoyed reading about our most popular articles from 2011 as we celebrate our 1st year anniversary this week.  It has been quite fun sharing the top articles in each category.  It has been really cool to look back every day and post your favorites. A big thank you to my […]

Declutter With This Great Get Organized Tip!

Manic:  My piles of clutter that seems to multiply daily! Managed:  Asking our managedmoms.com home decor expert how she keeps her own busy home so organized and clutter-free.  I love her answer.  Check out what she does and give it a try… Bridget says: Who says they don’t have anything to throw out?  Everybody does. […]