Top-To-Bottom Home Organizing: A Complete Guide to Organizing Every Room in the Home - Softcover

Kempner, Caralyn

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1732396906 ISBN 13: 9781732396906

Publisher: Yaz Publishing, 2018

Synopsis

"One of the best new Home Storage ebooks" - BookAuthority

Readers' Favorite 2019 Gold Medal Winner

Overwhelmed by your household clutter? Confused about where to begin organizing your home?

Professional home organizer Caralyn Kempner simplifies the process of organizing your entire home, making it easy to understand and follow. This all-encompassing home reference book covers everything from decluttering the refrigerator to footwear storage solutions. Simply refer to the chapters that address your specific projects.

Budget-friendly, mid-range, and high-end storage options for all your household belongings are covered in Top-To-Bottom Home Organizing, which provides an easy-to-follow, systematic approach to home organization inspired by the minimalist lifestyle.

This step-by-step guide to home organizing explains how to:

• enter into any home organization project without feeling overwhelmed;
• replace your indecision with focus when downsizing household items;
• arrange your household items to promote long-term order;
• understand the different uses and costs associated with various storage systems; and
• utilize all your storage spaces so none are wasted

You will never need another organizational book; this one is an encyclopedia, whether you want to confront your household clutter with confidence or establish functional arrangements for your items.

About this title

About the Author:

Caralyn Kempner is a professional home organizer with her own company, Organizing Interiors. She is an active member of the National Association of Productivity and Organizing Professionals (NAPO). Nothing is more rewarding for Caralyn than less stressed clients after she's helped them manage their home clutter with customized storage arrangements that fit their lifestyles and personalities.
 
Caralyn lives in the Chicago suburb of Northbrook with her husband, three children, and two small dogs. Before becoming a professional home organizer, Caralyn was the president of a successful telecommunications business, but now she is the happiest doing what comes naturally: planning and organizing home storage space.
 
"Top-to-Bottom Home Organizing" is not Kempner's only endeavor. The first-time author plans to launch a patent-pending unisex jewelry organizer to further assist people with their organization needs. 
 
Published by Yaz Publishing, "Top-to-Bottom Home Organizer" is available in both paperback for $22.95 and e-book for $9.99, at Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, and independent bookstores. 
 
 
Contact Caralyn via e-mail at caralyn@organizinginteriors.com. Visit Caralyn's blog atorganizinginteriors.blog for unfolding details and even more home organizing advice and photos of her projects. You can find Caralyn at her website, caralynkempner.com, and also find her on the following:
 
facebook.com/caralynkempner
instagram.com/caralynkempner
pinterest.com/caralynkempner
twitter.com/caralynkempner
 
 

Review:

 

Top-To-Bottom Home OrganizingA Complete Guide to Organizing Every Room in the Home
 
Non-Fiction - Home/Crafts
 
Kindle Edition
Reviewed on 02/18/2019
Book Review
 
Reviewed by Vernita Naylor for Readers' Favorite
 
With the hustle and bustle of life today, everyone is always looking for ways to get things done quickly. Did you know that being organized in anything from your job and career to your personal life can actually save you a lot of time, money and effort? In this awesome book, Top-To-Bottom Home Organizing by Professional Home Organizer Caralyn Kempner, you will learn everything to help you become organized. In this book you will discover that organization isa process. This process takes a lot of time to undo what you've been doing, so don't rush it. It also takes an intentional mind to begin the process in order to not only begin but to complete the tasks. "Mostly, people don't know where to begin or how to approach organizing.This book helps to guide you through various organizational tasks by breaking down each task into manageable steps that can be spread out over time,"says Caralyn.
 
This book is for anyone, whether you are looking to organize your garage, bathroom, kitchen,bedroom or home office. You can begin at any section or chapter that is important to you because eachis self contained and stands on its own. I enjoyed this book for so many reasons but a few essential things to help streamline the process that stood out were: Illustrations to help you to visualize the results; Top Organizational Tips; Best practices for home organizing; Simple instructions that anyone can follow without feeling overwhelmed; Organizational Challenges; Types of hangers, closet organizers, and shelving; Cosmetics Tips.
 
With a book of this magnitude, it displays the essence of your mind because if your mind is cluttered then your home becomes that as well. A clean mind creates an element of clarity, balance and peace. For me, if things are organized then I am able to locate things quickly, become efficient and avoid buying stuff that I already have but didn't know that I had. The book also gives the feeling as if Caralyn is there with you, walking you through the process and then leaving you with some systems on how to maintain all of the hard work that you have put into organizing your home. Even if you are downsizing or live in 500 square feet, this book is ideal for you. That'snot all. Caralyn has dedicated other resources to keep you to stay up-to-date on the latest advice and other how-to's on home organization. If you want to see a change, improve and declutter your home, It's important to add this book to your library.


 
KIRKUS REVIEW
TITLE INFORMATION
TOP-TO-BOTTOM HOME ORGANIZING
A Complete Guide to Organizing Every Room in the HomeCaralyn Kempner
Yaz Publishing (333pp.)
$9.99 e-book
January 8, 2019
BOOK REVIEWA debut guide tells readers how to arrange their homes.A disorganized home is a stress on an individual's space, time, and psyche. The worse the problem gets, the harder it is to try to fix it. "People don't know where to begin or how to approach organizing," writes Kempner in heropening chapter. "This book helps to guide you through various organizational tasks by breaking down each task into manageable steps that can be spread out over time." Employing a minimalist approach to home organization--promoting the belief that less is better and the unnecessary should be eliminated--the author walks readers through the various areas of their dwellings in order to show them how they might be properly sorted, simplified, and freed up for better use. After an introductory section on storage essentials, common challenges, and maintenance strategies, Kempner gets into the specific areas of the house and their particular needs. She tackles bedrooms and closets (including "closet systems"), kitchens ("The Pantry: An Overview"), bathrooms, laundry rooms, home offices, and even the dreaded garages. Each section proposes several alternative templates accommodating whatever spatial situation readers might have to work with. The author includes numerous bulleted lists of tips as well as cute diagrams illustrating efficient (and aesthetically pleasing) storage techniques. The author writes in an authoritative but calming voice, succinctly anticipating the requirements and instincts of readers: "The most important thing to accomplish with footwear storage design is not to end up storing any loose shoes on the floor, no matter how well they're initially lined up.Inevitably, order will be lost, and the closet floor will become a mess." While the book becomes a little dry when read straight through--Kempner does not inject anecdotes or personal experiences into the work, giving it the feel of a true manual--the sections are meant to be consulted out of order according to need. Anyone with a hall closet or kitchen nook that has gotten a little (or more than a little) out of control would do well to see what the author has tosay on the subject.
A useful, highly structured reference book on home organization.

About this edition

• Publisher: Yaz Publishing
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1732396906
• ISBN 13: 9781732396906
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 340