The Smart Approach to the Organized Home (Smart Approach To Series) - Softcover

Clagett, Leslie Plummer

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1580112528 ISBN 13: 9781580112529

Publisher: Creative Homeowner Pr, 2005

Synopsis

The latest addition to Creative Homeowner's best-selling Smart Approach series, The Smart Approach to the Organized Home is for homeowners who want to learn the principles of effective organization and how the rules apply to every room in the house. The book covers all of the fundamentals of home storage, including the importance of cataloging items accurately for storage, the pros and cons of built-in and retrofit arrangements, and general strategies for locating storage areas. Like other books from the Smart Approach series, added Smart Steps and Smart Tips illustrate how these methods apply to individual areas of the home. Packed with full-color photography, this book is essential for readers looking for solutions to their home storage dilemmas.

About this title

About the Authors

Leslie Plummer Clagett has written about residential architecture and design for more than 20 years. The author of The New City Home, her work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, the Los Angeles Times, and the San Francisco Herald-Examiner. She is a senior editor with Hachette Filipacchi Media U.S. in New York, NY.

Clagett is a former editor of Home and Today's Homeowner magazines.

From the Back Cover

The latest edition to Creative Homeowner's best-selling Smart Approach series, The Smart Approach to the Organized Home, is for homeowners who want to learn the principles of effective organization and how the rules apply to every room in the house. The book covers all of the fundamentals of home storage, including the importance of cataloging items accurately for storage, the pros and cons of built-in and retrofit arrangements, and general strategies for locating storage areas. Like other books in the Smart Approach series, added Smart Steps and Smart Tips illustrate how these methods apply to individual areas of the home. Packed with full-color photography, this book is essential for readers looking for solutions to their home storage dilemmas.

Reviews

Tidily arranged but not fastidious, this instructional volume educates readers on every aspect of home organization, from basics helpful for even the most inveterate pack rats to minutiae sure to delight hardcore neatniks. The author of The New City Home devotes chapters to every room in the house and begins each with big-picture concepts such as furniture placement and storage, and then moves to small but important details ("when hanging pictures on a wall, line them up along their top edges rather than the bottom of the frames"), finally tackling over-the-top fine points, such as the suggestion "to keep plates from scratching one another, slip a circle of chamois or flannel between each stacked dish." While there is some practical discussion of eliminating excess and getting "rid of one old item for every new one you acquire," the book takes the realistic approach that we all have lots of stuff and need places to put it—and so it gives more suggestions for what to do with the things you have than how to get rid of them completely. Color photos on every page—which could be more modern—demonstrate ideas with aspirational vignettes not impossible to emulate. (Nov.)
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Edition details

• Publisher: Creative Homeowner Pr
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1580112528
• ISBN 13: 9781580112529
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 207