Open shelves only work if you cook on them every day.
Things you reach for daily live on the shelf. Things you reach for monthly live in a drawer. Everything else, donate.
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Edit ruthlessly. Then re-edit in three months.
Open shelving without the chaos: a maker's edit.
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Mira Aslani
Writer and editor. Believes a room is finished when the light is right, not when the styling is.
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