Best of Portland: Home Organization

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February 24, 2010 by Katerina | Comments (0)

The days are getting longer and the air is finally getting warmer, which means it’s time for Spring Cleaning. This is a good thing, since the piles of mail and magazines, cluttered closet space, and a limitless amount of other junk have accumulated beyond what is acceptable. We have researched some great local resources for organizing your life and the space you live in! Take a look:

Home Ec.
3327 SE Hawthorne
Home Ec. vintage housewares and furnishings store offers a diverse range of house-hold products, including kitchenware, furniture, appliances, art, pin-ups, vintage iron-ons, records, barware, and miscellanous useful items (or useless, but pleasing to the home, nonetheless– it’s all relative, right?) from the 50′s – 70′s. Home Ec. was rated the #1 antique/home furnishing store in the Portland area on Citysearch.com for three consecutive years, and has been featured on Fox Channel 12′s “Good Day Lifestyles ,”as well as Channel 2′s “AM Northwest.” Publications have also printed articles featuring Home Ec., including Small Business Journal, The Oregonian, Willamette Week, Portlandpicks.com and the Portland Mercury. Make sure you don’t sleep on this timeless shop that has been raved about!

Organize in Style / The Shebang
Krista Colvin, Owner
Household organization is more than choosing the right storage shelves, filing cabinets, post-its, and knife collection; it requires strategy, tact, and vision. That’s where Krista Colvin steps in. Krista Colvin is the Lifestyle Expert for AM Northwest, creator of The Shebang–the smart woman’s guide to doing it all. She runs her home, office, and she’ll help run yours, too! Follow her blog, to tune into monthly projects, weekly to-do lists, featured guest experts, and various tools and tactics on how to organize your life and the space you live in.

The Rebuilding Center
3625 N. Mississippi
If you’re undertaking a more rigorous and ambitious home organization project, such as remodeling the office or repairing that door that you’ve been meaning to fix for the past 7 months, you should look into the ReBuilding Center. Founded by volunteers in 1998, The ReBuilding Center carries the region’s largest volume of used building and remodeling materials. It provides resources that make home repairs affordable to everyone, with the goal of promoting the reuse of salvaged and reclaimed materials. Three hundred visitors come to The ReBuilding Center every day to browse the ever-changing inventory that includes sinks, tubs, tile, lumber, doors, windows, trim and much more. Other services include free pick-up, classes and workshops on how to safely work with used building materials, and volunteer opportunities. The Center has been a winner of the Oregon Ethics in Business Award, Oregon Entrepreneurs Forum Award, and The City of Portland’s “BEST Business Award.”

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