The Simple Home: A Faith-filled Guide to Simplicity, Peace And Joy in Your Home

by Sharon Hanby-Robie

Offers suggestions for simplifying a living environment to enhance spirituality, discussing ways of eliminating items that are not used, redesigning and redecorating rooms to suit individual needs, and creating a well-organized, comforting home.

Genres: Nonfiction

180 pages, Paperback

First published October 15, 2006

Reviews

[Awjtf]

Great book!

[Michelle]

A surprisingly delightful book. It's a little bit philosophy, a little bit home decorating, and a little bit advice column. I enjoyed the light touch the author uses to prod the reader towards needed change. For example, she asks if you want to leave a hoarder's cluttered house as a legacy to your children: in other words, do you want your grieving kids to have to throw all that junk out, or can you take control of your clutter NOW so you don't create one more difficult thing your children have to do when you die?

Forget what Martha Stewart would do- another funny moment was when she asked if G-d would approve of your spending habits when you clutter your house with needless commercialism and trinkets. She even gives you strategies on how to handle people asking about gifts they may have given you that you have passed along.

Altogether, a good book. Give it a browse!

[Maryalene]

This book is full of personal and client stories and seems very light on content. The book felt more like a collection of random stories and bits of advice rather than a practical how-to manual. That said, the Simplicity Made Simple sections at the end of each chapter provided some useful tips. Overall, the book felt disjointed, and I don't feel as though I gained a lot by reading it.

[J Crossley]

This book takes a faith-view of housekeeping.