Looking for small space storage hacks and home organization ideas that actually make sense for how you live? In this episode, I sit down with Jess Banks — robotics engineer, furniture designer, and star of Netflix's Hack Your Home — to talk about why homes fail us, and the small, genius hacks that can fix it. Jess has an insane background — physics, robotics, running her own kinetic furniture company — and she brings all of it to how she thinks about storage and space. We get into why "messy" isn't actually a character flaw (it's just a mismatch between your brain and your space), how to design furniture and storage that flexes for visual vs. hidden organizers, and why she thinks almost every home is missing a few key pieces of smart storage. We also get into: ✨ Why homes are never really built for how any one person actually lives — and what to do about it ✨ The "touchpoint" method for deciding what deserves prime real estate vs. deep storage ✨ Jess's ADHD, her own visual-but-contained organizing style, and how she's "hacked" her own space to work with her brain instead of against it ✨ Why multi-purpose furniture (like a table that folds flat into the wall) might be the small-space answer we've all been missing ✨ Her surprisingly brilliant trick of using different scents to help her brain context-switch between creative, analytical, and admin work If you've ever felt like your clutter is somehow your fault, this conversation is a great reminder: it's not you, it's your storage. Follow Jess on Instagram @rockpaperrobot, and watch Hack Your Home on Netflix — I promise you'll be as obsessed as I am! Want to get organized? Learn 6-Step The Clutterbug Method: https://clutterbug.thinkific.com/courses/Clutterbug-Method You can find more Clutterbug content here: Main YouTube Channel: @Clutterbug Website: http://www.clutterbug.me TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@clutterbug_me Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/clutterbug_me/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Clutterbug.Me/ #clutterbug #podcast #JessBanks #Netflix #HackYourHome #storagesolutions #smallspace #spacedesign #inventors #furniture Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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