''1001 Ideas for Kitchen Organization'' by Joseph Provey has great ideas for all sorts of kitchen storage dilemmas. The Rev-a-Shelf and Diamond Reflections websites are also useful for storage ideas.

http://www.diamondcabinets.com/Lowes/storage/index.cfm

Any ideas for planner. I need help with organization

Planners tend to work best if you make your own!

Put together a loose leaf book with sections for the various tasks, and also sections for each of the trades you'll be dealing with.

Type up all the lists you can think of. Then go through as many of the threads here and in the house building forum and anywhere else you think the advice is good and real, and look for the "what am I forgetting" topics. Add those to your lists.

If you do it this way, you can update your lists and your book, whenever you need. And you can sync it with your PDA or phone if you have one so you can refer to your lists even if you don't have your book with you.

Most of all, making your own lists means they'll be tailored to your particular project with your particular concerns, and by having to put them together and organize them you'll have to thing the whole thing through so you'll be organizing your own thoughts at the same time!

I was my own General Contractor so I got to make all the decisions! I knew I had a very competent carpenter to do the work who had told me to get whatever I wanted and he'd make it work. I knew from experience he would/could so I bought what I wanted. I talked to him twice from the time he said he'd do it until the day he came to work. That arrangement worked for us but it might not for everyone. We will start week 5 on Monday and I doubt very much he will have anything left to do on Tuesday unless I can throw in one more "while you're still here" thing ;-) I need to be done with my list because he'll take all his tools! He has the good stuff and I have the bargain brand. Good stuff is better.

I had a three ring zipper binder with dividers. I did my cabinets at Menard's and every time I had a question or an "I wonder" or the girls I dealt with all the time had one of those, I hauled out my binder and everything was right there. I had a graph paper drawing of the kitchen as it was and as I wanted it. I had photos of how it was then. I kept their floor plans and cabinet list print off in it and replaced them with the new floor plan every time I was there;-) If I happened across a bargain I had my measurements with me and knew whether it would fit or not.

I had a divider for everything! One for sinks with subdividers for single, double, fireclay, silgranite, etc. As I norrowed it down, I took pages out. I printed off everything that took my eye on line. I printed threads from here that pertained to what I was wondering about. I used plastic sleeves and put brochures/samples in them. I have a large key ring full of Formica samples. The huge ones fit a plastic sleeve.

When I chose my farm sink, I printed the pages with the specifications printed on it so I knew which sink was which. That saved me from looking them up over and over.

I kept some of my inspiration photos in my book also to make it easier to explain what I was looking for while shopping. Saved many, many words and no one misunderstood what I was looking for!

Start anywhere because you will certainly be adding pages/ideas/questions as you become more familiar with what's out there. I kept several lined notebook pages in the front for lists and questions. Keep those. I often made a note on my shopping list about something I'd seen and needed the information weeks later. I would guess you will have a notebook for each room before you are done.