Real Simple: The Organized Home

“Real Simple: The Organized Home” is a practical, inspirational guide to streamlining your home and creating a more peaceful and productive life in the process. Building upon the incomparable world of the magazine, it provides valuable step-by-step advice on everything from organising kitchen shelves and cleaning out the refrigerator to setting up a versatile living room and creating a peaceful bedroom. A celebration of the liberating pleasure that comes from a clean, well-organized living space

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JLind555 says:

July 10, 2011 at 11:13 am

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Long on style, but could use more substance, October 10, 2004

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“The Organized Home” is as beautifully presented as it would like its readers’ homes to look. It’s lavishly photographed and nicely arranged, room by room, and there is even a ribbon marker attached. It’s all very stylish. Where the book falls short is on substance. Some of the photographs could use better captions to help make their statement, and a lot of what is being said is so self-evident as to hardly be worth filling up a book with. One topic that does bear repeating (and is repeated in this book with a vengeance) is the necessity of de-cluttering your space — go through your closets, drawers, cabinets regularly and toss whatever you haven’t used in the last year or so. You’ll be surprised at how much junk you’ve accumulated. There’s also a shopping guide at the back, including internet addresses, listing sources.

Speaking of space, this is really the book’s weakest point: “The Organized Home” reads like it was written for readers living in suburban McMansions. How many singles living in the city have laundry rooms, family rooms, storage rooms, or even separate dining rooms? There needs to be a lot more in here about how to organize in a limited space. The book talks about displaying all your small appliances if you have a lot of counter space in your kitchen, but what if you live in an apartment where the kitchen is so small that you can spread out your arms and touch walls? Maybe that could be the topic for a separate book. As far as this one is concerned, it’s a beautiful volume, but its lack of attention to small spaces has limited its overall usefulness.

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Diane "diane" says:

July 10, 2011 at 11:57 am

43 of 44 people found the following review helpful:

Disappointing, February 15, 2005

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I like the magazine, but I was disappointed with this book.

I found the treatment too superficial to be useful. Unlike the magazine, pictured products aren’t identified, and all items in areas aren’t covered completely. For example, I wanted to see something on ironing board storage in the laundry area, but there was nothing on that. Also, they assume you have a lot of optimally configured space. For example, broom and mop storage was handled by assuming you had a separate closet just for cleaning supplies. If I had such a closet, I wouldn’t have thought I needed this book.

Skip the book and spend the money on a magazine subscription instead.

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Baby Bichons says:

July 10, 2011 at 12:44 pm

34 of 34 people found the following review helpful:

Ideas not Actions, July 6, 2005

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This book is full of beautiful pictures of organized homes. There are a lot of great ideas, but very little instruction on how to actually organize your house or cut clutter. A good book for someone who is trying to make their home more efficient and nice looking, but does not have a clutter or cleaning problem.

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