The photos in here are gorgeous. Droolworthy photos if you love pretty organization. Visual candy. Lovely layout printing job too.
But. But. But the book itself is completely ridiculous, imo. And I even like organizing by color (one of their main suggestions)!
As the impact of plastics continues to be noted (need I say, in a bad way) worldwide, this book encourages you to buy, buy, buy plastic bins for almost everything. And, hey! Don't forget vinyl stickers (plastic) are included in the back of the book too. Even if you're fine with that, you need a pretty large budget, I'm guessing, because they say you should buy oodles of organizing pieces ( than you need) w/ the option to return some later. Lots of famous namedropping throughout, as in, "We did celebrity abc's house, isn't it gorgeous!" and "Wow, we're so in love with celebrity xyz's house, which we also did." (Not direct quotes, by the way, but you get the picture.) I realize we're a mediadriven age with "influencers" shilling overconsumption 24/7, but please, grow up already.
As far as actual organizing advice, this book has pretty slim pickings. There are a few notes ideas, but that's about it. Although they tout solutions for everyone every space, my opinion is that if you want to achieve even one iota of what they photograph, you need a modern home with pristine white walls, hardwood floors of some sort, modern, minimal kitchens, practically new [insert every object in your house] in perfect rainbow hues for organizing. No help for those who have folding doors, laminated kitchen floors from the '70s, stained cabinets, old paneling, mismatched dishes, minimal closet/storage space, or carpet/paint/furniture/items that might have seen better days. There's not a lot of "how to" in this book, though they claim to share their process so that anyone can achieve the same results. They are obviously successful with an elite clientbase; it also looks like their clients probably didn't need much organization to begin with. (I don't know. Before after photos might have helped here had they truly worked some organization miracles. Instead, every photo looks as if the clients tossed everything, moved into a new home, bought all new stuff to be organized in a pretty way.) If they can't clearly elucidate their actual process (which, imo, they don't) can't make it applicable to everyone (as they proclaim), they shouldn't publish it as a "how to" book aimed at the general public. Instead, they should have omitted the "advice/how to" portion printed the Instagramworthy photos as a coffee table photo book for organizing nerds.
Summary: Pretty photos but utterly laughable as an information source. This whole book can be summed up like this:
1. Get rid of your clutter.
2. Put whatever is left into bins and label it.
3. Take pictures and put on Instagram and then call yourself an expert! The Home Edit: A Guide to Organizing and Realizing Your House Goals is a “howto” home organization guide by Clea Shearer and Joanna Teplin of The Home Edit (THE). The tone of the book is casual and relatable, with humor injected throughout. The format of the book is organized by overall editing process, followed by advice for each specific area in the home. The book is filled with pretty pictures and lots of expert tips ( though I admit to finding few groundbreaking).
The quick dirty THE process is:
1) Take everything out (of the space you’re organizing and we mean everything).
2) Create groupings (by placing like items together so you can see what you’re dealing with).
3) Pare down (your belongings, getting rid of anything you no longer use or just don’t like).
I’ve been a fan of THE and followed Clea and Joanna on Instagram for a few years now. They’re funny, down to earth, and realize we don’t all live in the sprawling estates of some of their highend clients. However, we can all benefit from cleaning out and thoroughly organizing the spaces we inhabit daily. Function, aesthetics, and peace of mind are paramount.
I am and always have been a very organized person I’m a firm believer that there is a proper place for everything and I like coming home to a consistently clean, organized space. That said, it’s always nice to review ideas and see a different perspective.
I recommend The Home Edit for anyone seeking a little inspiration for DIY home organization projects, which can be tackled one space at a time, and revisited as needed. If readers need to organize closets full of athletic wear, a cupboard full of nothing but herbal tea boxes, drawers of colored drinking straws, bathroom cupboards stuffed with 50 tubes of lipstick and other makeup items, a huge storage area for what must be ten Costco boxes of protein bars, and what seemed to be a lifetime (plus) of crayons and markers, then this book is for you. And if you have the time to rebottle all of your spices into new bottles and paste on new labels, then this book could be right up your alley. And if you have oodles of white drawers and shelves and the money to purchase all kinds of new containers, then get this book ASAP.
As for those of us not into conspicuous consumption and who continue to strive to reduce clutter and keep from buying so much in order to help our budgets, don't bother.
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When was the last time you sorted your kids toys.ALL the toys by COLOR? yeah, rightnever. My personal favorite laugh is a rectangular basket under the hall table, it's divided into 3 sections and each section is for 1 child's backpack. HA! when was the last time (or even the first time) a backpack fit into a 4 inch slot. Yeah, never.
It's lots of cutesy bins and plastic containers. What happened to the reuse and repurpose craze that showed your genius idea for keeping something out of a landfill? That's how we live in my household.
I don't go out and buy a massive amount of plastic containers. Nope.
I was hoping this was going to give some fresh ideas, but it's just a picture book of rainbow colored items organized for the photo. Not for real life. This book, and the message it sends, is awful. Admittedly, I didn't actually read the book, because I couldn't handle the self depreciating tone of the authors. As I flipped through the pages and looked at the pictures, I kept thinking, "who has this much stuff? And this much space to store all of their stuff?" Once I looked at the captions, I realized this is mostly pictures of celebrities super organized homes, which just made it even worse, because why do we want to encourage people to aspire to this wasteful and unobtainable way of living? Plastic bins everywhere, to hold all of your beauty products, and crazy shoe collection, and your kid's color coded collection of toy cars. Seriously, if you have so much lotion that you need plastic bins to organize them by scent, yes by scent, then maybe you could consider donating some, and certainly never buying another bottle of lotion in your life. This book is a visual collection (with everything in rainbow order!) of the disgusting consumerism that apparently way too many people take pride in. This is nonfiction on organizing your home. I've read than a few books on this topic, and this was by far my least favorite. I think she lost me when talking about chandeliers in your closet and putting stuffed animals away by color. Plus the purchasing of so many different things like lined baskets, shelving and anything else you can spend money on to store stuff. This wasn't my world. Why would you take kitchen and pantry organizing tips from people who don’t cook? Oh wait, I know the answer: because, by the logic of this book, instagrammabity and pinterestibility above all. Oh, and do buy a lot of clear plastic containers the authors make money of.
And take the same approach to your whole house. Clear plastic containers everywhere, put labels on everything, and get your whole house to be in obsessively rainbow color order.
There seems to be quite a few pictures in the book. At least they were described in audio. But of all the interesting examples, why would anyone care how Gwyneth Paltrow and similars organize their spaces? Just show and describe some pretty and also small space examples; quit the name dropping.
There are no good tips for how to organize small spaces, or organize nonvisually or if you’re disabled. It’s all very roygbiv and plastic bin focused. These two “home organization instagram influencers” apparently attempt to write humorously (I sped the book up, didn’t find anything funny), and, well, at least they even did the audiobook reading it with their own voices. Big bonus for that! Yet, one of these women (Joanna?) constantly kept laughing at her own jokes. I would like to assume that was their conscious effort in making the book fun and different, but take it from an audiobook addict: don’t laugh on your own jokes, and always take the time to edit out the laughs before publishing. Laughing at your own jokes in a book or even on TV even if you had a fancy show never looks good.
This was so funny and the photos were beautiful and I immediately went and organized like ten cupboards
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