One thing leads to another, and everything is connected. A client and I are focused on creating order in her closet. Except that we can't talk about the closet without talking about the clothes hamper, and that naturally involves the laundry cycle, which weaves into the organization of the laundry room, the daily rhythms, the delegating of responsibilities, the rate at which the family wears clothing, and where everyone in the whole house puts their ...

Exposure is not exposure is not exposure, if you ask me. While it's thrilling (and career-advancing) to be featured by major media outlets, it's usually the case that your message gets distilled at the very best, and twisted at the worst, in order to fit the parameters of the story being produced. Mostly, you end up feeling like you presented the smallest nugget of what your work is all about. A nugget is a nugget, ...

There are plenty of my clients whose spaces are severely cluttered. They aren't "hoarders," (different needs; different service) but they are headed more towards that direction than not. The excess of stuff in their homes is obvious. The piles are high. The corners are crammed. The contents of the closets are spilling out into the rest of the rooms. The reasonable storage capacity has long ago been exceeded. They are embarrassed, sometimes even ashamed, to ...

I'm not a designer, but I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess that being approached by a real estate developer in possession of a 12,600-square-foot, 11-bedroom, and 12-bathroom estate in Sagaponack would be massively intriguing. Were that designer to be propositioned with designing the entire operation, nary a client to compromise with, well, I'm guessing that would have to be right up there with as good as it gets. Not that it could ...