You know that one thing you own? The one you always try your hardest to make work, but then always choose something else over in the end? It might be a blouse that you try on every time you're getting dressed for an important occasion--you're determined that this time-- you put it on, look in the mirror, and...it's just not right. You take it off, throw it onto the bed and pull on the next in ...

A while ago I was working with a client to organize her home office when she posed the question, "Do you think every household should have a shredder?" (Pressing matters, guys.) I hadn't, prior to that moment, considered such a prospect but upon its pronouncement I immediately clarified my answer. "Yes." She smirked and shook her head, which we all know is code for "I knew I was right and my spouse was wrong way ...

I have a theory of my own about the dress that has recently swept the interwebs, only it isn't based on color or eye science or even on the viral nature of the online world. I happen to think that we're obsessed about the dress because we're obsessed about ourselves, about knowing ourselves better and understanding more deeply how our experience of life and the world compares to others'. The instant we discover there's a ...

Nary a household coat closet I've seen is in even reasonably good shape. They're filled with all the other random things that family members didn't know what to do with, or were too lazy to cary out to the garage...or to the trash: baseball bats, bike helmets, boxes of stationary. And besides that there's the winter gear graveyard of solo mittens, moth-eaten beanies, and horribly unfortunate looking scarves. Add to that the various and almost ...

If we could build the perfect room from scratch, what would it look like? What features would it contain? Let’s have ourselves a little daydream… You know what seems a brilliant idea (after the original invention of the washer and dryer)? Not having to bend in half to use the blessed machines. It doesn't matter if they're stacked or side-by-side, you're destined to have to double over at some point throughout the laundry cycle. But ...