Stephanie NguyenCleaning & Organizing Editor Stephanie is a writer, editor, and full-time dog petter. As Apartment Therapy’s Cleaning & Organizing Editor, she covers all the ways to make your home sparkle with decluttering tricks, cleaning tips, and organizational hacks. Stephanie holds degrees in English and journalism from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. She lives … Read more
Stephanie NguyenCleaning & Organizing Editor Stephanie is a writer, editor, and full-time dog petter. As Apartment Therapy’s Cleaning & Organizing Editor, she covers all the ways to make your home sparkle with decluttering tricks, cleaning tips, and organizational hacks. Stephanie holds degrees in English and journalism from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. She lives … Read more
Stephanie NguyenCleaning & Organizing Editor Stephanie is a writer, editor, and full-time dog petter. As Apartment Therapy’s Cleaning & Organizing Editor, she covers all the ways to make your home sparkle with decluttering tricks, cleaning tips, and organizational hacks. Stephanie holds degrees in English and journalism from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. She lives … Read more
Stephanie NguyenCleaning & Organizing Editor Stephanie is a writer, editor, and full-time dog petter. As Apartment Therapy’s Cleaning & Organizing Editor, she covers all the ways to make your home sparkle with decluttering tricks, cleaning tips, and organizational hacks. Stephanie holds degrees in English and journalism from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. She lives … Read more
Charli PennExecutive Lifestyle Director Charli Penn is the Executive Lifestyle Director at Apartment Therapy and an award-winning journalist, editor and Webby-nominated former podcast host who writes in the name and praise of all things good living (and loving!). She thoroughly enjoys photography, 90s R&B, and all things gold accents. When she’s not curled up at … Read more
Today is the day we’ve all been waiting for: After two weeks of decluttering it’s time to sign on the dotted line, make this clean sweep official, and get everything out of your home. How you do this can be as quick and simple as a drop-off at a charity shop, or as detailed and … Read more
Along any decluttering journey, including this one, you have to rely on your brain to make good choices. But brains can’t be trusted. Your brain is going to try to convince you that you need things you don’t need. And for that reason, you’re going to have to trick your brain if you want to … Read more
Whatever time you have to dedicate to decluttering, there might not be a better target with a higher return on investment than the bathroom. Any amount of time you can dedicate to streamlining your bathroom storage will pay you back times ten when it comes to making it easier to get ready in the morning, … Read more
Small tidying sessions go a long way towards keeping your home in a state of clutter-free calm. But decluttering is about more than knick-knacks and old t-shirts: Almost everyone has a “black hole” of storage at home that’s absolutely stuffed full of possessions you’re unconsciously hanging on to. I can’t tell you what that space … Read more
By far the hardest thing to declutter is the sentimental stuff. I mean… there are a lot of feelings attached when you’re considering whether or not to let go of a cold-press juicer, so of course those emotions come out ten-fold when we’re talking about a treasured hand-me-down or an old gift from a good … Read more