The Clutter Clinic: Organise Your Home in Seven Days

by Romaine Lowery

With much needed guidance on de-cluttering and reorganizing your home or office, this complete clinic is the much-needed answer that every muddled person has been waiting for! Practical, inspirational, and colorfully illustrated throughout, this guide to restoring order examines each room of the house individually, and includes unique ideas for recycling, labeling, color coding, and a whole range of space-enhancing tricks. There’s even an extensive shopping directory of retailers, mail order companies, and websites that sell everything you need to get organizedfrom great storage options to dual-purpose furniture by new young designers. With strong before-and-after visuals, these easily achievable suggestions will simplify even the most overwhelming task.

176 pages, Hardcover

First published September 2, 2008

Reviews

[Frangipani · Rating 3 out of 5]

Very pretty pages and photos in this book, although poorly proof read. I was hoping to find some useful information in this book. Instead I found lots of pictures of things to buy to contain ones clutter, or cute overpriced gadgets for the kitchen or whatever. Sadly disappointed. Got a spare sixty five thousand pounds for a nifty prefabricated wine cellar anyone? What a dashing way to corral one's vintage whaine collection! I'm definitely not this book's target audience that's for sure!

[Bianca · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book has the most bizarre photos of the author alongside enormous quotes. She just looks silly!

[IE · Rating 2 out of 5]

I feel sorry for her clients which she makes fun of in the book. Found this on the free table at the public library and read this in 2023, it’s really out of date in terms of style and trends so I can see why the library was discarding it. It’s also written in a tone that is unpleasant at times, and assumes a lot about the reader including that they are lazy and have clothes that make them look “a little bit fat” and that they need to go to the store to request bedroom lighting “to hide cellulite”... This is written by a woman who seems very self conscious. There are so many typos in here and it really needed to be edited. The layout is wack but maybe it made sense in 2008, I don’t know.

[Kerry Henderson · Rating 2 out of 5]

This was a bit of a weird book. There's many random pages with a quote and a picture of what I assume is the author in a weird pose. She's also a bit aggressive at times with her words
The advice is more about storage you might need rather than decluttering. Useful maybe for a new or first home.

[Annburnett · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book gives many ideas about decluttering your home in a week.

[Terri Durling · Rating 2 out of 5]

Nothing new here. I basically just skimmed through it. I liked the chapter in "dressing room" which I dream of having.

[Julie · Rating 2 out of 5]

Points for this book: British spellings! Organising is more fun than organizing.

Points against this book: the before and after pictures are like this: 1. a picture of your dresser with stuff all over it, 2. a picture of your dresser looking neat. Duh.

[Kim · Rating 1 out of 5]

This book is basically a magazine article that got too long and unwieldy. The book begins by dividing the readers into categories whereby many would be insulted with what the author has to say about them and stop there. I have not yet found the correlation to "Seven Days" of organizing, just staged, glossy before and after photos of mostly modern living spaces. It looks like someone dumped things on a surface of a clean home, took a photo, removed the clutter and took an after photo. The author did a photo shoot in one outfit and the photos were cut a pasted in nonsensical places throughout the book making for some comic relief as I skimmed through the book. I love books on cleaning, organizing and decreasing clutter. If that is what you are looking for, this is not it!

PS Unless you are doing nothing else with your time, seven days may be a bit ambitious if you really have a clutter issue.