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How to Declutter Your Home: A Room by Room System
A practical decluttering system for living rooms, kitchens, bedrooms, closets, entries, paper and toys, with decisions designed for ordinary routines.
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Psychology of Home
A long-form editorial series on how homes shape identity, ritual and memory, citing Cooper Marcus, Proshansky, Belk and other place-attachment research. Reading, not how-tos: the reason the how-tos matter.
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The Rooms We Build for Ourselves: How to Read a Home (Including Your Own)
Spend enough time looking at other people's houses and you stop needing the introductions.
The Soul's Blueprint: What Your Home Actually Says About You
A home is a slower, more honest autobiography than anything people write about themselves. The furniture tells the truth even when the owner is still working out what the truth is.
The Invisible Thread: How Your Home Weaves the Story of Your Inner Life
The longer one looks closely at the rooms people live in, the clearer it becomes that no room is ever neutral.
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The Layered Letter
One considered layer at a time.
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