The Home Edit

A Guide to Organizing and Realizing Your House Goals (Includes Refrigerator Labels Download)

By: Clea Shearer, Joanna Teplin

Narrated by: Clea Shearer, Joanna Teplin, Tara Sands

Length: 2 hrs and 58 mins

Publisher's summary

There’s decorating, and then there’s organizing. From the Instagram-sensation home experts (with a serious fan club that includes Reese Witherspoon, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Mindy Kaling), here is an accessible, room-by-room guide to establishing new order in your home.

Believe this: Every single space in your house has the potential to function efficiently and look great. The mishmash of summer and winter clothes in the closet? Yep. Even the dreaded junk drawer? Consider it done. And the best news: It’s not hard to do - in fact, it's a lot of fun. 

From the home organizers who made their orderly eye candy the method that everyone swears by comes Joanna and Clea’s signature approach to decluttering. The Home Edit walks you through paring down your belongings in every room, arranging them in a stunning and easy-to-find way (hello, labels!), and maintaining the system, so you don't need another do-over in six months. When you're done, you'll not only know exactly where to find things, but you'll also love the way it looks. 

The Home Edit is a masterclass filled with detailed tips, from placing plastic dishware in a drawer where little hands can reach to categorizing pantry items by color (there's nothing like a little ROYGBIV to soothe the soul). Above all, it's like having your best friends at your side to help you turn the chaos into calm. 

Includes a PDF with resources to help you stay inspired and T.H.E. fridge labels.

Featured in Glamour's 10 Books to Help You Live Your Best Life

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio. 

©2019 Clea Shearer (P)2019 Random House Audio

Critic reviews

"If you ever see an incredibly organized pantry or enviably neat closet from your favorite celebrity on Instagram, it's probably the work of Clea Shearer and Joanna Teplin, co-founders of The Home Edit. These professional home organization experts live for color-coded shelves, matching baskets and labeled jars to help their A-list clients achieve organization nirvana." (Today.com)

"In their book [Clea and Joanna] are bringing their tried-and-true decluttering methods straight from their celeb clients' closets into your home, along with step-by-step tips to help even the most organizationally-challenged among us implement and maintain their aesthetically pleasing lifestyle hacks." (People)

"The book is a master class on how to arrange even your most unattractive belongings - and spaces - in an aesthetically pleasing and easy-to-navigate way." (Glamour)

Awful... just Awful

Not audiobook Material, author uses simple childish language, constantly references pictures instead of describing setting. I cannot believe I spent money on this. The audiobook sounds like a narrated Valley-Girl high school paper.

TLDR: Buy organizers, use labels, get Pinterest. I just saved you three hours of painful listening.

Very hard to enjoy without pictures

I thought there was a link to pictures to go with the book. The link was a list of "resources" which is the blogs/Instagrams/stores they are promoting with the book. That's okay to include, but I was hoping for more. I had a hard time because the verbal-only descriptions were not very detailed so I couldn't really picture much of the work they were talking about. If you are a paper book buyer, this is probably a good purchase, especially if you like their signature look. Maybe skip the audio book version unless you are already a superfan.

More Visual Than Audio

I was hoping for more tips and formulas maybe even more stories about organizing but it turns out it's just Instagram the book edition. If your exploring home organizing pick up this book at your library and skip the audio book.

I enjoyed the book and the audio overall as a passive action but half the book is them describing pictures and then reading their side notes. It becomes very predictable very quickly. I would have enjoyed them discussing how they reach conclusions and more about how to resolve the conflict that arises when you do organize an area. This book is also focused primarily on mothers, so understand that going in.

Love this!

Hilarious duo! Been following them on Instagram for so long! I bought the audiobook just to listen to the pics description. #robertaapproved

Super motivating

I enjoyed listening to the authors with their enthusiasm and high spirit. Great job ladies

Buy the audio and the paperback!

I loved listening to clea and Joanna alongside looking at the beautiful pictures in the book! I also love that I have the paperback to reference whenever I’m organizing.

Very fun to listen to

Motivated me to organize my house. It was fun to hear the actual authors read the book and hear their personalities.

Productive and Funny

I was delighted by the upbeat pace of this audiobook. Never a dull moment. kept me interested and laughing.

Definately a good listen worth every penny. I am for sure getting the hardcover for the pictures.😄 Afterall i dont have to read it thats what the audio book is for!

Buy the actually book too!

I love listening to audio books but for this one you almost have to have the actual book so you can see the pictures they are describing. So I bought it too!

amazing

just as good as the show. cannot wait to reorganize my entire house! this was such a big help.