Project Feature: A Beautiful Kitchen in Memphis, Tennessee

March 20, 2019 Katie Savage and Brooke Levy

Imagine this: you have a beautiful, newly renovated kitchen. Bright, clean and classic. State of the art appliances.

And no cabinet doors.

Yes, that’s correct. A brand new kitchen with no doors on any cabinet. This was the our recent clients found themselves in when they reached out to us about organizing and decluttering their kitchen and pantry.

Not only did they not have any kitchen cabinet doors, but they had lived so long without the doors, that all of their items were spread out on every free space available in the kitchen. Everywhere we looked there was stuff layered and stacked.

Their beautiful, new kitchen was hidden. By stuff.

The Blue Pencil Home Story

March 13, 2019 Katie Savage and Brooke Levy

Why Did Blue Pencil Home Start?

It was funny then and even funnier now, but I knew I was onto something when my husband said a few years back, “Can we take a break from reorganizing our house?”

Do you ever do something so often that you don’t realize it’s become a part of your routine?

This is exactly what happened to me. It’s also what motivated me to consider reorganizing spaces outside my own home.

A Check-in With Katie and Brooke

March 6, 2019 Katie Savage and Brooke Levy

Coffee or tea?

Mountains or sea?

Heels or flats?

Which would you choose? Do you ever wonder what your favorite things might say about you?

While we’ve have been busy in these frigid Memphis temperatures overhauling garages and organizing with a client’s pet pig underfoot (truth!), we wanted to take a break from all the busyness to share what non-organization favorites keep us energized behind the scenes. Taking a page from the classic Southern Living’s “Quick Picks,” here are a few of our timeless choices that don’t necessarily have to do with space-saving and simplifying. Stay tuned though, because those are just around the corner!

Here we go!

Reorganizing Resolutions For The New Year With Caramelized

December 27, 2018 Katie Savage and Brooke Levy

We recently teamed up with Cara Greenstein who runs the popular Memphis blog Caramelized to help her organize her kitchen to start off the new year on the right foot. Here’s a look at Cara’s post about the whole process:

I consider myself a fairly organized and well-kept individual.

It wasn’t until I was reaching three feet back into my “pantry” — a one-cabinet IKEA space that hosts every dry good from pasta to canned tomatoes to crackers and brown sugar — that I paused and thought to myself, “this is simply not the way to operate.” Sure, the small size of our townhome has established parameters for what can fit versus not (I am not a member of Costco because bulk doesn’t work at this phase of our lives, ha!). But the efficiencies across our kitchen shelving simply did not exist.

That’s when I called the dynamic duo behind Blue Pencil Home, Katie and Brooke, to bring a robust resolution to my 2019 mindset.