Laundry Room

Thursday 01.03.13

NEAT is Getting Dirty

Whether you're visiting your weekend home in Tahoe, or living the daily grind of life in the snow, winter brings a serious amount of accessories. Between hats, earmuffs, gloves, mittens, boots, scarves, and jackets your home can become quite a mess if you don’t have a plan for the winter excess. Today we are having some serious mudroom envy. Check out these well-kept spaces that have us singing the praises of winter instead of counting down the days ‘til spring.

This first one fulfills our life long dream of having a sliding ladder in our home...(please excuse the weird hanging hat)

mudroom with Ladder, ladder, mudroom, organized mudroom

We love how this mudroom plays double duty for the mail center too!

Mudroom mail center, mudroom, organized home, home decor

If you have pets or live in a muddy area... this next one is for you! Check out the adorable labels for the baskets!

Mudroom, Dog wash station, clean mudroom, organized mudroom, home decor, children's mudroom, hall entryway

For this last one, we brought it back to reality. Most of us don't have enough space to designate a room for our outerwear. This option shows how low hanging spaces for children's items can still work within the home.

Martha Stewart Mudroom, mudroom, martha stewart, organized entry way, entry way, hooks, hooks for backpacks

Ready for a mudroom makeover? We hope you find yourself bringing in the New Year with a glass of bubbly and inspired to live the NEAT life in 2013. We are excited to share our latest ideas and inspirations with you!

xx,

the NEAT girls

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by Molly | posted in Laundry Room | tagged MudroomInspiration

Thursday 05.03.12

How to Be NEAT's Man

Hello lovely NEATers!

It is our pleasure to introduce you to the newest love of our lives, Brett. The three of us may be technically spoken for, but this guy has won over our hearts! Not only is he a University of California Berkeley grad, extremely strong, and has a net worth of $400,000….BUT he can fold towels!! And not just fold, tri-fold.

We were lucky enough to pay Brett a visit this week and meet Pieter Abbeel’s team behind the robotic genius magic!

Berkeley, Molly Graves, Heather Gilligan, Heather Byrne, Robot, Robotics, folding a towel

So here is a lil background bio on our friend Brett and how he came to call the UC Berkeley College of Engineering his home:

Willow Garage is a robotics research lab devoted to developing and advancing hardware and open source software for personal robotics applications. They granted only 11 universities around the world a FREE PR2 (Personal Robot 2). With an open source software application, these PR2s help advance the progress in robotic technology…and we all know we could use a personal robo in our everyday lives!

Brett technically stands for the “Berkeley Robot for the Elimination of Tedious Tasks.”

AND folding towels is one of those tedious tasks!

Robot, Berkeley, Robotics, folding a towel

AND without further ado...

Our favorite part of the this entire robo folding shindig is Brett's impressive conclusion with “I hope I live up to NEAT Method’s standards.”

And by golly, he sure did!!

Molly Graves, Heather Byrne, Heather Gilligan, Robot, Robotics, Berkeley, Mr. Roboto, California, college, nerd, folding a towel

Ta Dah!

Algebra, hard math, scientific equations, equations, white board, dry erase board, Berkeley, technology

After *fully* undestanding the mathematics behind how Brett independently folds a towel, we took a stab at how to fold a shirt. Here is just a snapshot of the Method to *our* folding madness!

And what is next on Brett’s “To Do” list you ask? Learning how to use the washer and dryer, and also serve sushi for dinner.

Many many thanks to the brains at UC Berkeley behind Brett for letting us crash their lab for the day! We will back to visit as soon as he can serve us a glass of wine!

PS :: You can order your own personal handyman boyfriend here!

xx

the NEAT girls

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by admin | posted in Laundry Room | tagged foldinglaundryClothes

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We're Ashley and Molly, the founders of NEAT Method. Lets face it - we obviously love to organize and are a little...or maybe we should say a lot type-A. This perfect storm created The Neat Life. Welcome! We've seen it all, heard it all, organized it all, and are always obsessed with the outcome of our work. Even if a clutter free space doesn't tickle your fancy as much as ours, we guarantee you will be entertained by our antics and will enjoy following the lives of a couple NEAT freaks.
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