A cheerful, room-by-room guide to editing your belongings and organizing what is left so it looks good and stays tidy
Edit, categorize, contain
Clea Shearer and Joanna Teplin founded The Home Edit, an organizing business in Nashville that became famous for its colourful, carefully labelled pantries and closets. Their method is simple: first edit, by getting rid of what you do not need; then categorize what remains; then contain it in a system that is easy to keep up. This book walks through that process for every part of the home.
Who will enjoy it
Anyone who wants practical, visual ideas for organizing a pantry, closet, kitchen or children's room, and who enjoys a light, upbeat tone.
What you will get
A bright, upbeat organizing guide with a simple three-step method, plenty of photographs and practical ideas for every room in the house.
The Home Edit Facts: Pages, Genre and Setting
Genre
Nonfiction · Home organization · Decluttering · Storage
Length
256 pages · ≈ 8 h
More about this book
The book is arranged by space, from the entryway, kitchen and pantry to bathrooms, closets, kids' rooms, offices and the garage. For each, the authors explain how to sort items into sensible categories, which containers suit them and how to label everything so that the whole household can find things and put them back. Their signature touch is arranging items in rainbow order, which looks striking in photographs and makes colours easy to find.
The writing is chatty and funny, full of jokes and asides, and the photographs show real projects, many from the authors' clients. A sheet of labels is included. Critics note that some solutions involve buying a lot of matching containers, and the most photogenic pantries may look more like showrooms than homes, so readers on a budget will want to adapt rather than copy. The principles, though, are sound and easy to apply.
Encouraging and fun, it works best as a source of ideas and motivation for one room at a time. Co-written with Joanna Teplin. Readers who have already tried tidying books will find this one more visual and less philosophical. About 256 pages in the Clarkson Potter paperback.
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