Love Your Home Again: Organize Your Space and Uncover the Home of Your Dreams

"When people first move into their homes, they have clear ideas about what they want from every room. The bedrooms will be peaceful and cozy. The dining room will work well for entertaining friends and family. The kitchen will be a hub of activity of course, but it will be high functioning and easy to manage. Time passes and clutter happens. Drawers, closets and cabinets get full of stuff making it difficult to put things away. Everyday tasks become dreadful. A few years later, when people look around, the home they dreamt of is far from the reality. In Love Your Home Again, mother-daughter organizing duo Ann Lightfoot and Kate Pawlowski will teach our readers how to manage their homes in a way that is modern, kind, effective, and fair. No one wants to spend all their free time doing chores. Through their signature systems of decluttering, organizing, and maintaining, Ann and Kate guide readers through the steps needed to resolve the issues behind the excess stuff and how to clear it out of their home tocreate the space to consider what they really want from their home. Through stories (and photos?) of clients' successes, readers will learn how to achieve their dream home through the power of organizing"--
A Compassionate and Practical Guide to Reimagining the Home of Your DreamsIn Love Your Home Again, Ann Lightfoot and Kate Pawlowski—organizing experts and the mother-daughter duo behind Done & Done Home—ask questions that take into account who you are and how you actually live to help resolve the issues behind the excess and create lasting solutions to keep your home running smoothly. Sharing their tried-and-true systems of decluttering, organizing, and maintaining, along with real client stories, Lightfoot and Pawlowski teach you how to manage your home with their signature "good humor and refreshing lack of dogma" (the New York Times). Inside you'll find: Gentle guidance on things like handling sentimental items, embracing quality over quantity, and cutting down on wasteHelpful tips for making your daily life easier, from meal-prepping to creating routinesOrganization methods for every room, small space strategies, and so much moreYou'll be amazed at the time, money, and energy you'll save—all better spent enjoying your space. Get ready to love your home again.FOR READERS OF: The Home Edit, Beautifully Organized, Simply Living Well, and Real Life OrganizingRISING STAR AUTHORS: Ann and Kate are celebrities in the organization world. They are frequently asked to comment on home organizing, staging, and decluttering topics, with recent clips in Women's Day, the New York Times, People, Apartment Therapy, Bravo, CNN, and more. Their celebrity clients include Jenna Fischer, Spike Lee's wife Tanya Lewis Lee, and many Real Housewives.FOR FANS OF HGTV: For readers who are obsessed with home makeover shows, this is the book for you. HGTV fans will be delighted to learn that they can design their own dream home through the power of organizing.A DIY PROJECT FOR EVERYONE AT HOME, WHICH IS . . . EVERYONE: This book is for the countless people working from their dining room table by day and watching home makeover shows at night. Love Your Home Again will show how you can rethink your own space, working with what you have.Perfect for:New homeownersParents who want to declutter, boomers who want to downsize and/or stage a spaceHGTV fans who could watch home makeover shows for hoursYoung adults and millennials who love organizing
A Compassionate and Practical Guide to Reimagining the Home of Your DreamsIn Love Your Home Again, Ann Lightfoot and Kate Pawlowski—organizing experts and the mother-daughter duo behind Done & Done Home—ask the questions that take into account who you are and how you actually live to help resolve the issues behind the excess and create lasting solutions to keep your home running smoothly. Sharing their tried-and-true systems of decluttering, organizing, and maintaining, along with real client stories, Lightfoot and Pawlowski teach you how to manage your home with their signature "good humor and refreshing lack of dogma" (the New York Times). Inside you'll find:• Gentle guidance on things like handling sentimental items, embracing quality over quantity, and cutting down on waste• Helpful tips for making your daily life easier, from meal-prepping to creating routines• Organization methods for every room, small space strategies, and so much moreYou'll be amazed at the time, money, and energy you'll save—all better spent enjoying your space. Get ready to love your home again.