The Article How Strategic Home Organization Elevates Your Interior Design discusses methods of organizing homes for clients, and how making strategic and deliberate choices in the home allow for a better feeling and better flowing space. Erinn, the owner of Sort + Store had a lot to say on the topic.
“Q. Which space do you find homeowner’s need the most help?
Erinn – This truly varies by homeowner! The majority of our clients are busy families in the thick of parenthood. With children’s ages ranging from preschool to high school, add in successful careers, carpools and extracurriculars are demanding their time and energy. This puts the priority of keeping a home, rightfully, on the back burner. It is our mission with every project to create sustainable systems that give families more time and less stress. By having an organized home, the frequency of misplaced jerseys, expired pantry products, or looking for hot glue sticks for the school project your child told you about the night before it’s due are a thing of the past.”
Erinn emphasizes the importance of organization being a personalized process, and being carefully tuned to a specific customers needs. For interior design where the majority of work is done by commission or on a client-by-client basis, this does not pose a major roadblock. But for industrial designers looking to make something mass produced, being able to make something for the purpose of organization that fits the needs of many becomes a difficult question.
A variety of options come to mind for this issue. A common approach would be modularity in design- make a product that can assume many forms and allow the user to figure it out themselves. But that relies on the user knowing how to efficiently organize their space, and rather than providing them a solution we are giving them a tool. Another approach would be to create multiple models, allowing a user to select whichever version they feel is best suited to them.
