The Home Edit

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Mary Hanna Bryant, Treasurer

Clea Shearer and Joanna Teplin are home experts and co-owners of the organization The Home Edit. Partners Clea and Joanna explain their knowledge as home experts, approaches to organization, and how to apply their skills to life in their #1 New York Times best selling novel, The Home Edit. This self-help book helps others use the techniques used by these two experts to be able to create beautiful spaces for themselves. The Home Edit will send a team of two organizers to your home if you live in one of the company’s service areas for a cost that ranges from $185 to $250 an hour. The Home Edit organization also has an Instagram page with over 4 million followers. Their aesthetically pleasing posts are always fun to see while scrolling down your feed! 

 

Between the popularity of Joanna and Clea’s book and their organization, they made their way to having their own Netflix show: Get Organized with The Home Edit. Released to Netflix on September 9, 2020, Get Organized is a show where the pair help their clients organize their belongings. From helping everyday clients to celebrities such as Reese Witherspoon and Khloe Kardashian, these home experts are well known throughout the United States. Based out of Nashville, Tennessee, Clea and Joanna travel the nation to help their clients by creating orderly and maintainable spaces. Clea and Joanna listen to their clients’ needs to organize in the best way specific to each person. The women also explain a few tips as they go along for the viewers. One tip they share when organizing a client’s pantry is to place food items into clear bins so that items are not floating freely along the shelves. When organizing the pantry, they make sure to keep everything easily accessible and maintainable. Throughout the show, the organization team follows three steps. Step one is Editing. This is when items that are no longer used are removed to make more space. These items are either donated or moved into a different space to be stored. The next step is Categorization; this is when you lay out your items and group them into specific categories. Then each category gets placed in its own container with a label on it. Clea even turned her own handwriting into a font to label items! Step three is the Containment of Items. Using containers that are designed to fit together allow you to take full advantage of the space in the area. The last step is to focus on how the room is used rather than what the room is. Clea and Joanna explain that you should “think of the ways the room operates beyond its central purpose.” By doing this, you can create more functional spaces by assigning specific items to spaces in the room in which they are used. Clea and Joanna have a few favorite pieces to use for organization, such as stackable plastic bins, divided turntables, clear stackable storage boxes, and canisters. Get Organized is a fun show to watch because you are able to see the finished product of Clea and Joanna’s skills. Their immaculate work will make you want to organize every inch of your house! 

 

If you are looking for tips to help organize your home, be sure to give their Netflix show a watch! The partners’ bubbly personalities are quite entertaining. Even if you are not looking to organize your home, it is fun to watch Clea and Joanna organize celebrities’ spaces, such as Kane Brown’s pantry and Neil Patrick Harris’s playroom for his kids. All in all, Get Organized is an entertaining watch!