Alexandra Gator

Every nook and cranny.

And then the other thing is downsizing.

All the experts I spoke to said that like more than furniture size or picking the wrong paint color, what is really the enemy of small spaces is clutter.

If you have a small space that you want to rearrange, the very first thing you need to do is declutter.

Because once you pare down to the things that you really need, it's a lot easier to see how much space you actually need for storage, how you can get creative with solutions.

And overall, it can just help you be more intentional with planning your space.

The clutter monster always lives again.

After tackling your clutter, or your latest clutter monster at least, you want to organize your stuff in a way that actually makes sense for your life, right?

Faith Roberson is a professional organizer and decluttering coach in New York City.

She lived for a while in a 550-square-foot studio, and she wrote the book What Stays and What Goes, How to Organize with Intention and Create Space for Grace.

What she told me is when everything has a specific home and a specific purpose, you're going to work better and you're going to feel better.

Yeah, I feel like this is a term that you hear a lot when it comes to designing, decorating, but the definition is a little bit slippery.

So Shamika told me when she thinks about flow, she thinks about how well all the elements of a home are working together for the people who live in it.

So for example, in your kitchen, you know, when you go to put your dishes on the drying rack, is it easy to do?

Is it right there?

Are you tracking water all over the floor with every dish?

That might be one example.

If you have to dig in and out of a closet every morning, if you have to hop up and over workout equipment every day, it might be time to rethink.

Let's do it.

Yeah.