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Whether you love or loathe winter, bulky boots are a fact of life when the weather turns cold. Keep from tracking mud and snow through front halls and mudrooms with these creative boot storage ideas to suit families of all sizes and homes of styles.

Any parent knows too well the avalanche of artwork that comes home with their children from school. There simply isn’t enough space to store it all, but there are so many things you’d like to keep—and even display—if only you could figure out how. For help calming the chaos, check out these simple but inventive solutions for displaying the precious creativity of your precious little ones.

It gets a bad rap, but a junk drawer is more than just a place to dump random items.

Organize a disorderly home with these 28 unexpectedly smart and stylish DIY-or-buy ideas.

Storage space ranks near the top of every homeowner’s wish list. If you’re lucky enough to have his-and-her closets, you’re living the dream. But what are you to do if you have a room entirely without a closet? Before you go out and buy a zippered-up freestanding closet or a pricey wooden armoire, consider the case for leaving your clothes right out in the open. Living without a closet forces you to prune your wardrobe, preventing outdated or ill-fitting clothes from piling up as they tend to do when hidden behind closed doors. Plus, open storage can turn clothing into artwork. From easy-to-assemble pipe fixtures to more avant-garde designs that flex the imagination, these 8 storage solutions are so creative you’ll wonder why you ever wanted a traditional closet.

No matter the square footage of your kitchen, the perfect amount of space for storage and prep always seems just out of reach. Fortunately, nothing frees up space like a little organization. And when we hear that you can clear out a full drawer by devising a DIY solution for spice storage, we’re all ears. Actual woodworking is not a requirement, because these 10 ideas for storing spices include simple repurposing projects as well as custom-tailored solutions, and all of them get the job done.