The Home Edit Told Us How to Organize Your Toughest Spaces

30.09.2023 - 00:15 / thespruce.com

The Home Edit seems to be able to make any space look good. A box of cords, reno tools, the pet supplies—it's clean, organized, and often color coded in the shades of the rainbow.

Despite Clea Shearer and Joanna Teplin—the dynamic duo behind the company—being on tour to promote their new book The Home Edit: Stay Organized: The Ultimate Guide to Making Systems Stick, we were able to steal some of their time to get their best tips on handling the hardest spaces in the home: the chaos spaces.

Here are Clea and Joanna's best advice for wrangling every explosion of a space, from the chaos closet to the overflowing towel shelf.

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A recently created at-home workspace (or even a long-established one) might not have any storage, especially if your home workspace is a kitchen table or couch when everything has to be cleared away at the end of the day.

To avoid creating a work dumping ground, «We suggest using a two- or three-tier cart to house your work essentials and move it wherever your 'office' is for the day,» Clea says.

Prep the cart so before you use it so doesn't become a chaos zone either. «Create a command center for handling incoming and outgoing papers, a charging station, and a divided bin for your supplies to maintain a tidy workspace,» Joanna says.

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The chaos closet is full of the stuff that goes in a closet, but you don't have enough of that thing to dedicate a closet to it (or just not enough closets), so all the random items just go in one closet together.

Clea is in favor of a rebrand: «Our solution is to designate this as the 'utility closet.'»

She suggests dividing the space into zones for each of the things in your closet, and keeping the