By JiaYing Grygiel Special to At Home in the Northwest
In Carrie Powell’s home in Bellevue, votive candle holders line the living room window sills, her kitchen and the bathroom.
“You definitely notice, ‘Oh, she likes glassybabies,’” says Powell. “I don’t declutter my glassybabies.”
Powell, owner of Method Seattle, is a professional organizer who’s attracted a large Instagram following with her decluttering reels. But, she emphasizes, she’s not a minimalist. She owns more than 100 of these votives (she’s not sure exactly how many), and rotates them seasonally by color.
“People associate decluttering with minimalism, and I don’t think you have to be a minimalist” (to be organized), Powell says. “I love the idea of curating. You’re not purging. You’re making thoughtful decisions about what you keep, and they should be things that you love and enjoy.”
Home organization stories typically focus on how to cut down on your belongings. Live with less, they say. Donate it, sell it, throw it away.
We turned the tables on that tired script and instead, asked professional home organizers what they keep. Not what they use, not how they organize, but the special things they just keep, period. Here’s what three Seattle-area organizers told us.
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