It's closet cleanout / closet organization season, so join us for the Closet Detox Challenge! If you're wondering how to clean out your closet for good and truly detox your wardrobe, this challenge is for you.
This video is the first of a 3-part series where we'll prep, purge, and put our closets in order together! I'm gonna be doing the challenge in real time as we go, so join me and let's get our lives and our wardrobes refreshed for 2024!
Read MoreWell it’s officially closet cleanout season again (is it ever not?) and it’s safe to say that most of us have probably made some adjustments over the past year to our daily wardrobes. Kate here, and while I’m personally still trying to figure out what I want my day to day style to look like during this weird time, I think it still feels right for me to kick off a new year with a closet detox.
Exciting though the thought of a fresh closet detox may be, it can be super overwhelming approaching a project like this amidst the capsule wardrobe converts, the Konmari devotees and everything in between.
Today I’m sharing what are, in my opinion, the only three questions to you need to ask yourself to truly detox your closet.
Read MoreSetting goals, planning, and creating to-do lists are things just about everyone does as a part of life and work - but finding a system that really works for you can be strangely difficult.
Personally I can say with confidence that I’ve been totally guilty of spending way too much time making thorough lists and project folders only to watch those lists just sit there with nothing crossed off or finished six months later.
As much as I feel like I used to romanticize the idea of being a ‘messy’ or ‘scatterbrained’ artist, I’ve definitely felt myself craving much more structure and organization in my job over the past five years or so. I always love reading about other people’s systems for planning and goal-setting, so today I’m sharing my essential tools for organizing everything I have coming up and getting things done day to day!
Read MoreWell it’s officially closet cleanout season again (is it ever not?) and I’m in the midst of the biggest wardrobe overhaul I’ve done in awhile. There’s something about a fresh new year, let alone a fresh decade, that seems to simply demand it.
Exciting though the thought of a fresh closet detox may be, it can be super overwhelming approaching a project like this amidst the capsule wardrobe converts, the Konmari devotees and everything in between. While I definitely love and employ aspects of all of these methods, I also recently wrote about the downside of ‘Tidying Up’ and think that, like anything else, when it comes to closet detoxing it’s something for which you kind of have to make your own rules.
With that said, today I’m sharing what are, in my opinion, the only three questions to you need to ask yourself to truly detox your closet.
Read Moresomething i’ve really noticed about myself over the past couple of years is that if there is a blank surface in the house - the coffee table, the kitchen counter, the dining room table etc - it will probably inevitably end up becoming a ‘dump zone.’ just what is a dump zone you ask? a zone where pretty much everything that shouldn’t be there ends up getting dumped. it drives me CRAZY.
when i finally found an apartment with enough room to fit this dresser last year, i knew i wanted it to look beautifully styled but most importantly be functional. since my closet is so small that i actually can’t stand up in it (house tour coming soon with pics), my dresser top is the only sensible spot in the house to store jewelry.
Read MoreAfter spending some time at my favorite winery Tobin James in Paso Robles, California this month, my house is recently stocked up with a lot of wine and nowhere to put it. Today I’m sharing three of my favorite wine storage solutions for small spaces!
Read MoreAs I’m sure many of you did, I binged all of the new Marie Kondo Tidying Up episodes pretty much the minute they dropped. I absolutely loved her book, so naturally I was super excited to see that she created a show around helping actual people get rid of all the (mostly) garbage they’ve been hoarding.
Read Moregiven that i knew i’d be moving overseas and putting everything in storage this year, i decided one of my major goals would be a serious closet overhaul. admittedly, i've tried just about everything in the closet overhaul department - shoe racks of all shapes and sizes, folding my jeans, hanging my jeans, having a special trunk at the base of my bed just for jeans (not a thing that works FYI) - and i was starting to get a little discouraged. maybe i just wasn't the type of person who could successful tame her closet?? maybe i'm forever doomed to the dreaded 'i have nothing to wear' territory? i figured having your closet shit together was for people who fold their underwear and brush their teeth for the recommend full three minutes.
Read Moresome girls grow up pinning pictures of their future wedding dresses, but if pinning was a thing when i was growing up i think i would have pinned coffee bar ideas. well...ok. to be fair, i didn't even drink coffee til i was a senior in high school, but i stand by the fact that i have always felt and still currently feel that the ultimate benchmark of having a truly legit adult household is not a king size bed, or a dining room table, or matching dishes, but a coffee bar. the only thing that could be better than coffee itself (ok nothing can be better, but these bars are on par) is a beautifully organized and incredibly cool designated spot for it.
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