Storage Solutions Quotes

I have a very well organized closet.

The belief is more and more as we use iCloud services for documents and our photos and videos and music that perhaps the most price-conscious customers are able to live in an environment where they don't need gobs of local storage because these services are lightening the load.

I clean out my house weekly. I just keep a lot of silly little things that are meaningful to me.

Like some helpful person (hi, Mom) has tried to "'clean'" it, and suddenly you can't find anything?

When designing a kitchen, always keep in mind the social aspect.

It will not always be summer; build barns.

Have a place for everything and keep the thing somewhere else. This is not advice, it is merely custom.

Multiple closets for different needs. Overkill.

I own a hundred and fifty books, but I have no bookcase. Nobody will lend me a bookcase.

I have a lot of stuff. Slowly I'm getting all my materials organized.

I find any kind of 'organizing' very difficult. And that has irksome consequences when it comes to books, since I've often wound up buying books twice because I couldn't find what I already have in all my mess.

I'm organized, but receipts tend to mess up my system. They're barbarians! So I store them in a notepad.

Ultimately, the number of books always exceeds the space they are granted.

It's a quirk of mine; I love neat garages.

The trouble with having a place for everything is how often it gets filled up with everything else.

In design-speak, 'a library' means a room lined with books, floor-to ceiling, but it all depends on the space you have. You may have a free-standing bookshelf of your favorite books if that's all you have room for.

The sky is the limit as long as you keep the rooms practical, and I have become better at that since I had children. Function, form and organisation are all important.

Having a messy coat closet should not be a big deal in a full life, and yet there's something about getting control of that coat closet that's surprisingly satisfying.

No person who can read is ever successful at cleaning out an attic.

I've moved about 10 times over the past 15 years. I don't move for the sole purpose of getting rid of stuff. I'm not crazy. I also move so that I never have to wash any windows.

Once you learn to choose your belongings properly, you will be left with only the amount that fits perfectly in the space you own.

Too often I find that the volume of paper expands to fill the available briefcases.

I live in an old house with no closets and no built-ins. I hate big cupboards.

When I'm doing kitchen planning as well as bathroom design, I try to walk through the day with the homeowner. If we're talking about a kitchen, it will be: So, we are walking in with the groceries. When we are taking them out of the car, where will they go? What is the distance to fridge, to pantry?

I'm going to have to take one of my bedrooms and gut it out and make it into a big closet, because now I'm starting to put sneakers in the pantry. Even my maids are like, "No more, please! It's too much!"