A Home Organizer’s Tips For Making Over Your Space On Any Budget (No Matter The Size)

Whether it’s the closet in your 500 sq. foot apartment or a full-kitchen in your 5,000 sq. foot home, organization-queen Jolin has you covered.

In light of TFD’s upcomingSpring Refreshwe’re spotlighting a few of our amazing panelists and tapping into some of their expertise on how to better apply their tips to our everyday lives. Today, we’re featuring乔琳·波拉斯克（Jolin Polasek）ofSage Organization, a home organization and design company based in NYC, to ask for a few pro-tips on how to keep our place both functional and fashionable. Check it out below:

1.很容易看待Pinterest，看看您的社交饲料以及如何使所有内容保持良好的存储和井井有条。对于那些从从头开始就从头开始的人，您会在哪里建议他们从哪里开始，以免被不知所措？

Organization is such a personal, intimate process. Everyone’s spaces are different, everyone’s habits and needs are different. I ask people I’m working with to try to identify what space in their home is causing the most stress. Where in their home are they losing time, because they can’t find things? Those are the areas that will cause the most impact, once organized.

For someone who’s looking to create systems of organization on their own, I’d tell them to start small with something attainable, like creating a home base for their keys, for example. If someone can commit to putting their keys in the same place every day and keeping that one small thing organized, they see that organization is possible! If they can do it with their keys, they can apply that same lesson in their bathrooms or bedrooms or any other space.

During our Spring Refresh seminar, I’ll be discussing this exact principle. I’ll be sharing ways to identify habits of disorganization, what’s causing them, and ways to change them into new systems of organization to relieve stress and save time!

2.我们必须问 - 您总是有井井有条吗？什么（和/或谁）启发您成为今天的有组织的女王？

Ha! Well, thank you for the organized queen title! I’ll take that any day. I will say, I think I was born with the organization gene. When I was a kid, I would organize and reorganize my stuffed animals every night in bed before going to sleep. It was something I enjoyed! I would arrange them by size, then color, then animal grouping; I loved it. I guess you could say I was a natural. How it turned into a profession is a much longer story. The short version is I used to be a professional actor at a resident Shakespeare Company in the MidWest. I had a year-round, coveted contract as a professional actor. When I knew it was time for a life change, I packed up and moved to New York City. I think I’m the only person who ever moved to NY to STOP acting! After several years of odd jobs, I helped a friend with a cross-country move. She and her boyfriend were tired and stressed and didn’t know where to start! I didn’t want to overstep, but it seemed like they needed some guidance so I unpacked, set up, and organized their entire new apartment in twelve hours…with about twelve cups of coffee! After that, I was hooked. I knew I wanted to help people organize their homes and relieve the stress that disorganization causes in people’s lives!

3.可以肯定地说，您已经拥有大量有用的工具和物品来维持空间。但是，如果您只用一些组织项目创建一个“胶囊组织套件”，那么它将包括什么？

Great question. I’ll go over this topic in-depth during our upcomingSpring Refreshseminar. Because everyone’s homes are so different and everyone’s stuff is so different, there really is no one “perfect product” for everyone’s homes. There are products that work in MOST people’s homes, but to create systems that will really work and truly stick, you need to find products to support systems of organization customized for you. During our Spring Refresh, I’ll be teaching everyone how to identify what organizational products are best for them.

4.在您的Instagram上，您发布了一个模因，上面写着：“我没有时间，因为我有时间。我有时间，因为我有条理。”- 在一个人的空间中，您会在哪里说清洁和秩序，这是对生活中整体组织的贡献（例如：个人生活，工作生活，财务等）的贡献。

某人在家中的组织水平可以洞悉生活中该人的组织。某人日常生活中的每一刻都可以分为一系列选择或习惯。在解剖和理解时，建立节省时间，组织结构化的习惯是可以应用于某人生活的各个方面的选择。我帮助我的客户了解他们习惯背后的选择。

5. Fun question: What is the space in your home you find the most cathartic and relaxing to organize?

Personally, I love my seasonal closet change-over. It brings me so much joy to unpack all my favorite things for the upcoming seasons, twice a year!

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有关Jolin和我们的其他特色小组成员的更多提示，请调整我们Spring Refresh,4月11日星期日! Get your ticketshere!