Organize Your Home by Color

Laundry should be separated anyway, so it’s a no-brainer to extend the color-matching practice to laundry baskets. “Assign like colors to like things,” says Laura McHolm, cofounder of NorthStar Moving, an L.A.-based moving and storage company. For example, choose a light blue–rimmed tote for lights and whites, and a navy blue option for darks.