Why you need household systems
“A house is a machine for living in.” — Le Corbusier
The solution to clutter and chaos at home is not storage bins. It is not a label-maker. It is not anything you can find at the Container Store, marketing be damned.
The fundamental problems to solve when your house feels overwhelming are:
You have too much stuff
You need better systems
And really, you can create a system to control the amount of stuff you have, which leaves us with just one problem to solve:
You need better systems
Simple, right? And somehow the avalanche of blogs, articles, and TV shows about organizing your house never seem to focus on the systems running your house.
See, your house is a machine for living in, as the architect Le Corbusier so aptly explains. You can shine a machine, you can buy it new parts, you can put it in a plastic bin from the Container Store…but if the machine doesn’t run effectively, none of these solutions will work.
I see the fundamental problem facing our domestic woes and overwhelm at home comes down to a need for systems in the household. T…