Organize Your Way by Katie McMenamin & Kelly McMenamin

Author:Katie McMenamin & Kelly McMenamin
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sterling

ORGANIC STRUCTURES & SMART STRUCTURES

Family- and Living-Room Essentials for

Organic/Smart Structures

• Go big with storage to contain your collections.

• Curate collections.

• Mix hidden and open storage.

Tchotchkes, books, and photos—oh, my!

You are instinctive grand planners who know how to make living-area décor look good. While photographs, books, and tchotchkes appear in the living areas of all types, man oh man do you guys take it to the next level. Usually, Smart Structures have a ton of books, and Organic Structures have a ridiculous amount of sentimental tchotchkes and photographs, so when it comes to setting up the storage bones for this room, you’d both better go big—floor-to-ceiling bookshelves!

Curate collections

Your living-area troubles are often related to your collections—either their arrangement or lack of curating. We don’t mean getting rid of things necessarily (breathe!); we mean categorizing them to give more visible coherence. Other folks collect ceramic pitchers in shades of a hue for no other reason than that it goes with their décor. Not you. Whatever you display has a story behind it, reflecting you and your life. Smart Structures: you are visual “big picture” thinkers who see your books, plaques, photographs, and collectibles as a visual display of your accomplishments, interests, and goals. Organic Structures: you also surround yourselves with visual reminders of your life—objets d’art from your travels, photographs of loved ones, books that feel like friends—which is fundamentally why you guys don’t part with this sort of “clutter” as easily as others and why many of your collections don’t match, thus making it difficult to organize them.

We have two client Organic Structure/Smart Structure couples—one in the city, one in the burbs—but neither has a room in their homes without a floor-to-ceiling bookshelf or two (yes, including the dining rooms . . . ). What’s great was that they used all the vertical space in their homes to properly organize and store their precious books—but, boy, did they need to declutter! Organic Structures: have your most judgmental, ruthless Classic friend come over and make you justify every tchotchke. Smart Structures: do the same, or hire an organizer to make you justify the logic of holding on to paperbacks you can get online. All of you should channel your inner Mari Kondo and make sure everything and every book that surrounds you evokes joy. Failing that, at least buy matching frames for your photos, so at least that part of your collection has cohesion. Your purge is done when you have extra space for more books instead of stacks of books on your floor.

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