The Home Reset: Easy Systems and Habits to Organize Every Room
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When life happens, an Insta-worthy organized closet is not worth striving for…but, your home can still be your soft place to land.
Karissa Barker (@karissaathome) loves to pore over aesthetic home organization and décor books. But to be perfectly honest, none have ever given her the tools to change the way things work in her home. Most are little more than a motivational speech with pretty pictures. When she was new to keeping house and life got extra busy or overwhelming, she wished she had someone to hold her hand and give her not just a visual guide, but habits and strategies for a better, easier path to an organized home. After years of experimentation and finding out what works, Karissa offers just that in The Home Reset.
This indispensable guide collects the essential strategies and skills you can rely on to make any space—apartment, condo, or house—cleaner and better organized on a daily basis. Moving through each key room or space, Karissa outlines everything that even the busiest of families can do, always starting with key resets and then exploring the habits and techniques for that space:
Kitchen and Dining: Short and long resets, how to join the clean sink club, countertop strategies, how to involve kids, creating easy cleaning stations, considering organization and flow, eliminating clutter, how to clean countertops based on material, how to clean flooring, tips for dishes/pots/pans, creating storage in challenging spaces Living Room: Full living room reset and nightly resets, key habits to keep the living room livable, toy management and storage, functional furniture, special items (remotes, books, etc.) and storage, how to clean carpets and rugs, how to clean couches and chairs, how to keep ceiling fans (and lights) cleanBedroom: Morning and quick resets, habit stacking in the bedroom, creating organization systems that work based on your closet considerations, how to wash bedding and mattresses, how to make a bed, how to fold clothes, a closet reset, how to maximize space in a small closet, closet systems, closet habitsBathroom: Quick reset and nightly reset, habits for wiping and clearing, how to involve kids in the clean bathroom battle, caddies and undersink storage systems, special section on kids’ toys, makeup and personal care storage, how to organize toiletries, how to clean showers and baths, disinfecting vs. cleaning Entry Spaces: Quick and weekly resets, habits for shoes/keys/entry objects, shoe and coat storage with and without a closet, considering entry flow, mail storage, backpacks and special considerations, how to rotate clothes and shoesLaundry and the Laundry Room: The laundry room reset (or the laundry space reset depending on your area), habits to keep laundry from taking over, key products and items for doing laundry, laundry basket options, weekly strategies, how to clean the washer and dryer, DIY laundry detergent recipe, stain removal guide, how to wash different itemsKids’ Spaces: Resets for parents and kids, helping kids create habits for a cleaner room, morning and nightly routines, creative toy storage, bedding options, cleaning up kid-centric messes, toy rotation, problem areas, how to clean and sanitize toys
Additionally, you’ll find a chapter of core skills, hacks, and tips for extra-challenging seasons of life. And a robust appendix, complete with many of Karissa’s popular checklists and printables, provide reusable material week after week. So ditch the frustration and jump in with a home reset!
ASIN : B0CV8L1X42
Publisher : Fair Winds Press
Accessibility : Learn more
Publication date : October 1, 2024
Language : English
File size : 20.8 MB
Screen Reader : Supported
Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
X-Ray : Enabled
Word Wise : Not Enabled
ISBN-13 : 978-0760389386
Page Flip : Enabled
9 reviews for The Home Reset: Easy Systems and Habits to Organize Every Room
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j h –
I feel sane because of this book
I absolutely loved this book. Reading this book helped me look at each room in my house differently and recognize what wasn’t working for us. Things that seemed obvious once I read them to change. My house seemed organized before but it took too long to “reset” at night (kids 2&3!) or get ready for company. The systems this book helped me implement have stayed for over a month now and I’ve had people over twice recently and been shocked at how little there was to do to get ready. The house is staying organized which makes it easier to stay clean and I feel like a huge burden has been lifted and so much time back! I was hoping for a few house tweaks from this book and was so pleasantly surprised at the massive effect it had. Thank you!
therese44 –
Practical, relatable, easy to digest
When I first flipped through I was a bit worried by all the beautiful, perfect looking photos. My house doesnât look like that, and âaesthetic organizingâ books like the Home Edit havenât helped me in the past. But once I started reading I was relieved and impressed by the writerâs exceedingly practical approach. The books layout is great for busy moms or ADHDers (or both) who want to bounce around the book or quickly flip to a specific room reset page. And itâs more than just the authorâs practical tipsâitâs wisdom. Wisdom about WHY you might want to put away your clean laundry right away. WHY it makes sense to spend time figuring out the best way for YOU to clean your counters (spoilerâbecause you do it 100000 times a year if youâve got kids). I use things I learned in this book every day. Itâs great for anyone curious about how to have a calmer, more peaceful home, and I think itâs especially helpful for parents of young kids.To the author: thank you for making my home a calmer and happier place!
J. Y. –
beautiful
this book is beautiful enough to be a coffee-table book. has some approachable solutions for managing household organization, but does tend to recommend things that require a decent-sized budget.
Matt Slotemaker –
No ability to mentally tackle housework? Read this book!
Some of us didnât grow up in families that modeled how to keep a busy house clean. I was frustrated by the cycle of perfectly cleaned home into a wrecked disaster every few days. This book actually gave me ideas on how to set up cleaning rhythms in my home that worked for us and our schedules.This book is clearly written, the author is hilarious and very relatable, the photography is gorgeous. This is a house cleaning book you can reference again and again.The laundry chapter alone is worth owning the book.This is NOT a declutter book, this isnât for a deeply unclean homes. BUT if you are seeking ideas and building a cleaning method that works for your particular family this is an excellent resource! This book describes, in detail, how to keep a home clean consistently, with methods and lists to getting it streamlined.
mebythesea –
Basic book
Very basic book. I did not like the lay out or the information provided.
NanoTowel –
A Game-Changer for Home Organization!
The Home Reset by Karissa Barker is a game-changer! This book is packed with easy-to-follow systems and habits that make organizing every room in your home feel manageable and stress-free. Karissaâs approach is both practical and motivating, making it easy to get started and stick with it. Whether you’re tackling a cluttered kitchen or a disorganized bedroom, the step-by-step guidance is incredibly helpful. I love how the tips are simple yet effective, and they really do reset your space in a way that feels refreshing. Highly recommend for anyone looking to create a more organized and peaceful home!
Linda M. Pagios –
Gorgeous and motivating
This book is so nice and gets me in the mood to get my life together!
Amazon Customer –
Simple and encouraging!
Our home tends to be only truly clean when company comes over, so I was wanting a reset, and this book gave me the motivation I needed to both get things in order and especially to start developing better habits. It has a simple checklist to reset each room, followed by a quicker reset, and a nightly habit reset, then goes into more detail on cleaning and organizing each of the spaces: kitchen & dining, living room, bedroom, bathroom, entry spaces, laundry, and kidsâ spaces. The crescendo of the book seems to be the laundry room, which surprised me since thatâs the one area Iâve been consistently great at keeping up with; but those who dislike doing laundry may really appreciate the extra emphasis. The overall focus of the book is on developing systems and practices to keep the home clean and decluttered, while using a logical order of cleaning from top to bottom and clockwise. It also includes information about which cleaning products to use for what, with homemade recipe tutorials for natural disinfectants. There is also some detail about organization and decluttering (using bins, and other forms of storage), but it doesnât go into as much depth there.Our family spent a weekend focused on reseting our bathrooms and main living space (shared entryway, living room, dining, kitchen), and found the checklist easy to implement. Even though it is simple advice, sometimes itâs helpful to have someone telling you what to do in which order, and we needed that! Our kids really got into this alongside us, and we were able to get our home both sanitized and tidy in a relatively quick timeframe, and so far have kept the habits pretty consistently (for a couple weeks). I also bought and began utilizing a couple new organization ideas based on the book, including finding a system for our unsorted mail, which is one of our biggest issues. I really enjoyed the format and writing style, and my biggest takeaway from the book has been the simple checklists and habit formation ideas, which we are still continuing to implement in our home.
Fenella Raines –
If you’re into this kind of thing, you’ll enjoy her perspective. Her house is very “perfect” so it makes ordinary living seem a little in the dark ages, but generally speaking if you are creative you can apply all of her ideas to your home, big or small, rustic or architectural xo