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Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Home Organizing Photos
These home organizing photos are from my own homes. These photos are copyrighted by Kathryn Bechen/Kathryn Bechen INK and they may not be used or reproduced, online or off, without written permission.
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Saturday, January 1, 2011
My FAVE Organizing Quotes
"Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful." --William Morris (Buy this quote in art here.)
"Don't own so much clutter that you will be relieved to see your house catch fire." --Wendell Berry
"Always plan ahead. It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark." --Richard C. Cushing
"You must let go of a thing for a new one to come to you." --Ralph Waldo Emerson
"It's all about editing one's life--refining, simplifying, constantly editing. --Bill Blass
"Let your soul turn always not desire the more, but the less." --St. John of the Cross
"In everything, love simplicity." --Francis de Sales
"Be regularly and orderly in your life so you can be wild and original in your work." --Gustave Flaubert
"The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak." --Hans Hofmann
"Order is heaven's first law." --Anonymous
"Information is a source of learning. Unless it is organized...it is a burden, not a benefit." --Willard Pollard
"Let all things be done decently and in order...for God is not the author of confusion but of peace." --1 Corinthians 14:40
"Clutter is like your lap. It disappears when you stand up and take action." --R.E. Olds
"Did you know? The average American loses one year of their life searching for lost and misplaced items at home and at work. --U.S. News & World Report
"The triumph of anything is a matter of organization." --Kurt Vonnegut
"If you own something that you cannot give away, then you don't own it; it owns you." --Albert Schweitzer
"When a land rebels it has many rulers; but with an intelligent ruler there is lasting order." --Proverbs 28:2
"If you organize your life around the things you are passionate about, nothing is a time burden. You end up spending time with people you want to spend time with and doing what you love." --Jeffrey Bores, in Yoga Journal
"Out of confusion comes chaos. Then comes anarchy and fear. Then comes lunch." --Post-it note
"Take time for all things." --Benjamin Franklin
"Clutter is stuck energy. The world 'clutter' derives from the Middle English word 'clotter,' which means to coagulate. And that's about as stuck as you can get." --Karen Kingston
"I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex." --Oscar Wilde
"The bad news is time flies. The good news is you're the pilot." --Michael Altshuler
"Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated." --Confucius, Chinese philosopher
"CHAOS: an acronym for 'can't have anyone over syndrome.' " --WordSpy website
"When freedom from disorder is maintained, fresh, new imaginative ideas can flower." --Alexandra Stoddard
"Find out how much God has given you and take what you need; the remainder is needed by others." --St. Augustine
"Simplicity does not mean getting rid of all your life's possessions, but rather integrating them into your life's purpose." --Mary Gregory
"Live simply so that others may simply live." --Ghandi
"The Creator puts stuff in its proper place--the heavens with the lights above, the earth with its creatures below." --Pamela Kristan
"Bringing simplicity into our lives requires that we understand the ways in which our consumption either supports or entangles our existence." --Duane Elgin
"Order is heaven's first law." --Anonymous
"Whatever is bringing you down, get rid of it. Because you'll find that when you're free, your true creativity, your true self comes out." --Tina Turner
"When I studied the interviews, speeches, biographies and autobiographies of successful men and women, I found that they all had one quality in common. They were all described as being 'extremely well organized.' They used their time very very well. They were highly productive and got vastly more done in the same period of time than the average person." --Brian Tracy, world-renowned entrepreneur
"I've only just a minute, sixty seconds in it. Forced upon me, can't refuse it, didn't seek it, didn't choose it, but it's up to me to use it. I must suffer if I lose it, give an account if I abuse it. Just a tiny little minute, but eternity is in it." --Anonymous
"Far from being a mundane concern, learning how to keep a house clean and uncluttered is the groundwork for many loftier achievements." --Susan Waggoner
"Simplicity insists we get rid of encumbrances; stewardship helps us decide what are encumbrances and what are not." --William Ashworth
"Who is rich? He who rejoices in his portion." --The Talmud
"Order is a lovely thing; on disarray it lays its wings, teaching simplicity to sing." --Anna Branch
Where You Can Buy My Book: Small Space Organizing
Book cover design by Baker Publishing Group
You can purchase my book Small Space Organizing: A Room-by-Room Guide to Maximizing Your Space at online and brick and mortar bookstores and retailers around the world.
Case discounts available for your church or group!
Sample Media Questions Re: Small Space Organizing
Book cover design by Baker Publishing Group
1. Do you consider small space living a "quality of life" choice and if so, why?2. What does "rightsized" living mean?
3. What's the first step when downsizing?
4. Can someone really be happy, and stay organized, living in just one room?
5. What's your best tip for creating a foyer if you don't have a "real" foyer?
6. What are your two best small space kitchen organizing tips?
7. How in the world can one create a "spa-like experience" in a teeny-tiny bathroom, especially if the kids' rubber duckies have taken up residence?!
8. What's your best organizing tip if a couple has to share a small home office?
9. What's your best organizing tip for kids sharing a bedroom?
10. How is it possible to create an organized "library" in a small home?
11. What is the binder notebook method you describe in your book?
12. What free download do you have to give away to our readers/radio listeners today and how can they get it?
Photo Galleries
I hope you enjoy my photos. They are copyrighted by Kathryn Bechen/Kathryn Bechen INK and may not be used or reprinted without written permission. Thank you.
Kathryn Bechen Designs home & home office decorating
Beautifully Organized Bloggers
If you have used an organizing or decorating tip or two or three from my book, Small Space Organizing, in your home and have posted photos on your blog about it, feel free to e-mail me the link to your blog post in my comment box here and I will post a link to your blog post along with the award winners below.
Also, some of these bloggers and others tell how they used or plan to use my book to help them get organized.
Bentley, Head Dog at The Painted Garden
(Puts his toys in a vintage tin every night! :)
The Old Painted Cottage
(Small closet turned into a creative home office/blogging station, organizing her kitchen drawers, and said my book inspired her to organize their garage next)
The Painted Garden
(Organized art studio and living room)
Three Different Directions
(Set up a coffee bar and streamlined her kitchen)
Kathryn Bechen's A-List of Lovely Lifestyle Books & Resources (e-Resource)
Kathryn Bechen's A-List of Lovely Lifestyle Books & Resources
by Kathryn Bechen
14 pages Price: $4.99
Description: 75 books/links/resources arranged in 15 categories, with accompanying motivational quotes, plus opinion/commentary by Kathryn Bechen.
Table of Contents:
Beauty/Style/Aging Gracefully
Dining/Entertaining/Party Planning
Financial Planning/Smart Spending
Flowers
Goals/Wise Living
Green Living
Health & Healing
Home and Office Organizing & Decorating
Marriage
Photo Memories
Spiritual Growth
Stress Management
Travel
Weddings
Weight Control
Purchase downloadable PDF here. It will come right to your e-mail inbox.
My "Happy Home & Office" Package of Organizing & Decorating e-books
My "Happy Home & Office" Package of FIVE e-books contains:
How to Set Up Easy A-Z Home Office & Personal Filing Systems
121 Dollarwise Decorating & Organizing Tips to Make Your House a Home
121 Dollarwise Decorating & Organizing Tips to Make Your House a Home
Suggested Media Interview Questions for Small Space Organizing by Kathryn Bechen
1. Do you consider small space living a "quality of life" choice and if so, why?
2. What does "rightsized" living mean?
3. What's the first step when downsizing?
4. Can someone really be happy, and stay organized, living in just one room?
5. What's your best tip for creating a foyer if you don't have a "real" foyer?
6. What are your two best small space kitchen organizing tips?
7. How in the world can one create a "spa-like experience" in a teeny-tiny bathroom, especially if the kids' rubber duckies have taken up residence?!
8. What's your best organizing tip if a couple has to share a small home office?
9. What's your best organizing tip for kids sharing a bedroom?
10. How is it possible to create an organized "library" in a small home?
11. In your book you talk about the binder notebook method. What is that exactly?
12. What free download do you have today for our listeners so they can get started right away in organizing their small space home?
How to Set Up Easy A-Z Home Office & Personal Filing Systems
How to Set Up Easy A-Z Home Office & Personal Filing Systems
by Kathryn Bechen
11 pages $9.99 Color photos
Description:
If you've been struggling for years to set up a home office and/or personal filing system that's easy and inexpensive to set up, use, maintain, and purge, this handy little e-book will show you how, step-by-step. It's based on my many years of setting up real-life filing systems for my Organized With Ease clients. Plus this is the system I have always used for my own home office and personal papers as well, and it's so simple to set up and use that I've never found one I like better. Forget buying expensive fancy filing systems because with some file folders, a few other supplies from your office supply store, a few hours of your time, and this how-to e-book, you'll finally have an easy system that really works.
Organized With Ease Portfolio
Below are a few photos of my hands-on organizing work as the founder of my former company, Organized With Ease, as well as some photos of me speaking and teaching seminars I developed on organizing, time management, and life management.
You can see photos of my Kathryn Bechen Designs interior/exterior decorating/design work here.
These photos are copyrighted by Kathryn Bechen/Kathryn Bechen INK and may not be used without written permission.
NOTE: I no longer do hands-on organizing or decorating consulting work either in-person or by phone; I only write about those topics via my current business, Kathryn Bechen INK.
Click on photo to enlarge.You can see photos of my Kathryn Bechen Designs interior/exterior decorating/design work here.
These photos are copyrighted by Kathryn Bechen/Kathryn Bechen INK and may not be used without written permission.
NOTE: I no longer do hands-on organizing or decorating consulting work either in-person or by phone; I only write about those topics via my current business, Kathryn Bechen INK.
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