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[By Clea Shearer] The Home Edit: A Guide to Organizing
by Clea Shearer and Joanna Teplin
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LuvemBooks Verdict
Best for
Readers who want a visually driven, room-by-room organizing system grounded in an "edit first" philosophy and who are motivated by the prospect of a beautiful, maintainable home rather than a minimalism manifesto.
Worth it if
Worth engaging with if you want a replicable, aesthetically coherent organizing framework — complete with color-coding, labeling, and a structured declutter-before-you-buy sequence — that you can apply one room at a time.
Skip if
Skip it if you're looking for a philosophy-heavy, radical-minimalism guide focused almost entirely on the reduction of possessions, as the balance here tips decidedly toward arrangement, visual styling, and maintainable systems.
What readers & critics say
Econogal praised the authors' "common sense approach" to reducing accumulated belongings and noted the book reads like a natural conversation between Shearer and Teplin. Times of India described the method as explaining how to group items by how they "flow" through space and place them in a way that is both functional and aesthetically pleasing.
Sources: econogal.com, timesofindia.indiatimes.comAsk LuvemBooks
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- Is it worth reading?
- For readers motivated by a visually beautiful and maintainable home, The Home Edit delivers a concrete, replicable system — color-coding, labeling, and a room-by-room structure — that translates professional-grade organizing into everyday household application. The 'edit first' sequencing is a meaningful structural choice that distinguishes it from guides that skip straight to product recommendations. The main caveat: readers expecting a rigorous, philosophy-driven minimalism manual in the vein of radical decluttering guides may find the balance tips more toward aesthetic arrangement than deep reduction — but for its intended audience, the method is well-proven and broadly recognized.
- Similar books
- Readers drawn to The Home Edit often find strong overlap with Marie Kondō's The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, which shares the declutter-before-organizing philosophy but leans further into minimalist ideology and emotional attachment to objects. For a room-by-room approach with a warmer, design-forward sensibility, Joanna Gaines' Homebody: A Guide to Creating Spaces You Never Want to Leave is a natural companion. Those wanting a more comprehensive, system-heavy reference may gravitate toward Toni Hammersley's The Complete Book of Home Organization, while readers curious about the philosophy side of reducing possessions will find Joshua Becker's The Minimalist Home: A Room-by-Room Guide to a Decluttered, Refocused Life a useful counterpoint.
- Who should read this?
- The Home Edit is best suited for readers who are motivated by the intersection of design sensibility and practical household function — people who want their spaces to be both visually appealing and easy to navigate, not just decluttered. Its room-by-room structure makes it particularly useful for readers who want to tackle one space at a time rather than undertaking a full-home overhaul. Fans of The Home Edit's Netflix series Get Organized with The Home Edit, or anyone who has followed Shearer and Teplin's work with celebrity clients like Khloé Kardashian and Reese Witherspoon, will find the book a natural deep-dive into the method.
- Tell me about the adaptation
- The Home Edit served as the anchor text for the Netflix series Get Organized with The Home Edit, in which Clea Shearer and Joanna Teplin bring their signature room-by-room, rainbow-coded organizing method into real clients' homes — including those of celebrities. The show extended the book's reach significantly and cemented The Home Edit as a mainstream organizational brand rather than a niche professional service. Viewers familiar with the Netflix series will recognize the same core process in the book: edit first, then arrange for visual coherence, then label.
- What is The Home Edit method?
- The Home Edit method, as described by the publisher, centers on three sequential steps: edit (remove everything from a space and pare down possessions), then arrange (organize what remains so it is both visually appealing and easy to locate), and finally maintain (using tools like labeling and product groupings). A hallmark of the Shearer-and-Teplin approach is the insistence on removing everything from a space before any organizing begins — no bins or baskets are purchased until the editing step is complete. The color-coded organizational philosophy, most visibly expressed in rainbow-ordered arrangements, gives readers a replicable visual standard rather than vague advice.
- Is it a good book club pick?
- The Home Edit is less a narrative or ideas-driven text and more a practical how-to guide, so it functions better as a shared action plan than a traditional book club discussion text. That said, groups focused on lifestyle, wellness, or home improvement — or friends undertaking an organizing project together — could find it a useful shared reference, with the room-by-room structure lending itself to chapter-by-chapter accountability check-ins.
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Adult
Reading level
Adult
Skip if you're looking for a philosophy-driven, minimalism-first guide focused on radical decluttering rather than visual organization and styling systems.
Editorial Review
A New York Times bestseller from the co-founders of The Home Edit, this room-by-room organization guide translates Clea Shearer and Joanna Teplin's celebrity-endorsed, visually driven method into an accessible framework for everyday households — grounded in editing first, aesthetics second.
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