5 Days Of Becoming More Organized | Try Living With Lucie | Refinery29 - video Dailymotion

Refinery29

This week on Try Living With Lucie, our host, Lucie Fink gets her living space professionally organized. She brings in the husband and wife duo, Horderly to make the most of her storage space. Press play on this episode of Try Living With Lucie to get some organizational inspiration!   #athomewithme  Special thanks to @postit and their #MakeItStick campaign with Hailee Steinfeld! https://instagram.com/postit/  A special thanks to Horderly for all of their help and a special thanks to The Container Store for some of the furniture!! http://horderly.com/  ABOUT SERIES Try Living With Lucie follows our favorite R29 millennial, Lucie Fink, as she dives headfirst into social experiments — five days at a time. From a week without sugar to full-blown street performing; there is nothing she won't try!    ABOUT REFINERY29  Refinery29 is a modern woman's destination for how to live a stylish, well-rounded life. http://refinery29.com/  RELATED CONTENT 5 Days Of Cold Showers https://youtube.com/watch?v=j0KGe3_eFdE 5 Days Of Eating Only Pizza https://youtube.com/watch?v=mnrQkORcivA 5 Days Of A Capsule Wardrobe https://youtube.com/watch?v=Di9Bjf_OPj4  SEE MORE REFINERY29 VIDEOS http://refinery29.com/video  SUBSCRIBE TO REFINERY29 Subscribe to the Refinery29 channel: http://bit.ly/subscribe-to-r29 For the latest trends and videos, visit: http://refinery29.com Like Refinery29 on Facebook: https://facebook.com/refinery29 Follow Refinery29 on Twitter: https://twitter.com/refinery29 Heart Refinery29 on Instagram: https://instagram.com/refinery29/  TALENT Follow Horderly on Instagram: https://instagram.com/horderlynyc/ Follow Lucie Fink on Instagram: https://instagram.com/luciebfink/ Follow Unbothered on Instagram: https://instagram.com/r29unbothered/ Follow OnHerTurf on Instagram: https://instagram.com/onherturf/ Follow Refinery29 on Instagram: https://instagram.com/refinery29/

Transcript

00:00I'm Lucy Fink and this week is five days of getting organized. Hey guys, welcome

00:05back to another five-day challenge. If you want to see more of these videos be

00:08sure to subscribe to Refinery29. Happy September everyone! I know it's not the

00:13new year just yet but for me September always seems to signify new beginnings.

00:18It's the end of the hot summer, it's time to refresh your closet for a new

00:21season and for all the students out there it's back to school. So it's really all

00:26about reorganizing and getting a fresh start. Before officially diving in I

00:30wanted to first gather some organization tips from my best friend in the world

00:34Hailey Steinfeld. Hey everyone I'm Hailey Steinfeld and today I tried living with

00:38Lucy. Just kidding we're not best friends but I did get the chance to meet her and

00:44to gather her preliminary tips for getting organized. I mean these are tips for

00:49myself I gotta pick up after myself. When there's something that needs to be done

00:52do it right then and there. Write everything down on your post-it notes and

00:57sleep. Because if you don't sleep and you're tired you put things off and then

01:01you're unorganized.

01:06Going into this week I knew that I couldn't tackle five days of truly

01:10getting organized all on my own. Personal organizers have a major skill set that I

01:15evidently just don't have and that's okay. To make sure that this video really

01:20inspired you guys and also to make sure that you learn something from it I

01:23needed to go big. So I connected with Horderly, a professional home organizing

01:27company run by husband and wife duo Jamie and Phillip. Our last name's Hord. H-O-R-D.

01:33You mentioned the word orderly and then it just sounded like you were saying

01:37Horderly. Yeah. It was really simple. I started out on Monday by giving Jamie and

01:41Phillip a tour of our entire apartment. First and foremost our closets were a

01:45mess. Half is Michael, half is me. Shirts are here. Dresses and jumpsuits and some

01:51shirts are here. Shoes, shoes, shoes, shoes, shoes, shoes, shoes, shoes. I don't know how I got so many shoes.

01:58This is the hallway closet. Lucy's stuff here with a little of Michael's sport

02:03equipment on top. His shoes are just piled. I mean I don't know. Although I

02:07donated a few bags of clothing not too long ago, being in videos all the time and

02:12also working with brands means that my closet continues to grow and grow even

02:17when I'm not shopping. In addition to the amount of things that we have in there,

02:20Michael and I were also splitting each closet down the middle. You and Michael both

02:24have two closets, half and half. In my head it would make sense to create one

02:29closet per person. That's one of the systems is like make sure everybody has

02:34their own space. Our front closet was a complete mess. It was basically a giant

02:38junk drawer with no rhyme or reason to it. And the bathroom, I mean I'm just

02:42embarrassed that that was my bathroom space. Michael's stuff, Lucy's stuff, tooth

02:47stuff. At one point I used everything on the shelf every day but no longer. Hair

02:52stuff, nails and moisturizers. I don't even know where this came from. But it was

02:59just an absolute atrocity. Once again being a social media personality means

03:03that brands are constantly sending me their beauty products to try out, which

03:07I'm not complaining about. I love that so much. I feel so fortunate that I have the

03:11opportunity to do that. But at the same time if you're anything like me and you

03:14have trouble getting rid of things, that leads to a lot of clutter. And then

03:19there's the desk. It's not bad right now because I recently cleaned it. But it is

03:26absolutely not functional. I'm a painter. I love getting crafty. You know I love

03:31bullet journaling. I have tons of supplies, markers, and pens, and tape. But when all

03:35my supplies are tucked away in a bag I never want to use them because they're

03:39not easily accessible. We'll set you up in a nice way where you can see all you have.

03:43Something that will inspire you to actually utilize it. Yes. After the tour the three

03:48of us just did some regrouping. We sat and we looked at the hoarderly Instagram

03:52account just for some inspiration. And then we started working on a plan for my

03:56complete apartment overhaul. Ready to go! Let's get to work!

04:03Tuesday was time for the dirty work. We started out with a big ticket item, our

04:08closets. We knew that this one would take at least a couple of days to perfect. So we

04:13dove right in as soon as possible. Be prepared because it will get worse

04:17before it gets better. The first step in the hoarderly organization process is the

04:21edit. This is when you remove absolutely everything. Stray tennis balls?

04:37Here's my empty closet. You lay it all out so you can see what you've got. We've got a

04:41loan shoe. Is this necessary? And then you go through every last thing you own. You don't have to be

04:53a

04:53minimalist. But you can always live with less. We separated things out into piles.

04:58So keep, donate, throw away, and then a pile of things to give my mom and sister.

05:03Those I love. Donate this. I'm gonna add this to my sister pile. Donation bag. We went

05:10through every headband, belt, bag. I saved it because it said my name. Oh. But I don't need that.

05:16Shirt. I have a lot of white tees. Okay. I feel like I can pare down. They're all stained. Sock,

05:23bra,

05:23I kid you not, we touched everything in those closets. Basically every single inch of the

05:28bedroom and the entire living room was completely covered with clothing. That first chunk of stuff

05:34that you start sorting through can be a little bit hard to part with. But once you start seeing how

05:38good

05:38it feels to just clear things out and to make space in your life, the rest will just flow. Michael

05:43was actually uptown at his first week of business school. But I FaceTimed with him to help him

05:48edit some of his items down too. Yeah, do edit those. Okay, donate. Donate? Yeah. Okay. That

05:54sounds great. Let me turn you, say hi to the camera. Hey camera. Hey. Alright, see you later. Love you.

06:02And after all the sorting was done and we looked in front of us and we knew exactly what we

06:06were

06:06going to keep, then it was time to strategize for where we were going to put everything.

06:14And now it was time for the real organization to begin. Jamie and I reworked the whole flow

06:20of our closets so that now Michael has the entire dresser to himself plus the entire hallway closet

06:26to himself and I had the entire bedroom closet to myself plus the additional piece to myself.

06:31That way we each have our own spaces and we can reassemble them in a way that makes the most

06:36sense for us and for our clothing. When you organize something, you can maintain it much easier

06:39because one of those systems we put in place is the system of feeling ownership of your

06:43own space. We went to the container store and we picked up a bunch of things that proved

06:47very useful. Shoe racks for both of us, a new drawer system to give me additional storage,

06:52drawer dividers for Michael, bins to put inside our shelves, hanger dividers and so much more.

06:57And then came the folding process and this is really where I think I might have learned

07:01the most in this entire week. I used to just slap my clothes together and call it a fold,

07:06but Horderly has an entire folding system. They call it the file fold. So basically instead of

07:12folding everything and then laying it one on top of the other like this where you're folding from

07:16bottom to top, everything in the closet is arranged from front to back so when you pull it all out

07:21it looks like a filing cabinet and you can see everything you own. So Jamie taught me how to fold

07:26everything from t-shirts to long sleeve shirts to shorts to underwear to thongs. Yes, even thongs

07:32get folded. So she taught me the special fold and if you're interested in learning how to fold like

07:36this they have YouTube videos where they teach you how to fold. And by the end everything looked

07:40pretty magical. Once everything was in place we used their label machine to print out labels

07:44for our hanger dividers, our drawers, and our bins.

08:00Midway through the week and I've got to say that stage one of my home reorganization was looking pretty good.

08:09Given the amount of beauty products that I own we reserved an entire day for the bathroom.

08:14Using the hallway as our staging area this time we went back to step one of the horderly process,

08:20the edit. We took everything out of the bathroom.

08:31Pimple popper down. And then we cleaned each shelf. Don't want to drop this. And we separated our stuff

08:36into sections that we labeled with post-it notes. So we had face, mouth, eye care, hair, and more. And

08:42then

08:42we sat on the floor and we repeated the whole process. Jamie did not let anything slip through

08:48the cracks here so we sorted through our things down to every last hair tie and bobby pin. And

08:53keep in mind throughout this process Jamie is asking all the right questions to help you determine not

08:58only if you should keep something but also where it should be placed if you do decide to keep it.

09:02Are you only using this or when are you using the wipes over this? Kind of like interchangeable.

09:09And she also has you store up extra products to use as backup. They're both great brands. Do you

09:14want to put one in backup? Yeah maybe that would be a backup. After we had successfully cut our

09:19belongings about in half it was time to officially reorganize things. We brought in some new bathroom

09:25essentials and then arranged everything on the shelves beautifully. You can see from the horderly

09:31Instagram account that they have a very specific way that they like to organize bathroom essentials.

09:36Basically everything is displayed with a little bit of space between it so that it looks like a shelf

09:40in a store. It really looks like I'm shopping. Yeah you can shop your own shelves. My new travel kit

09:48was

09:48probably my favorite project of the day because I travel a lot I feel like I'm always packing and

09:53unpacking my bathroom essentials. So Jamie made my life a whole lot easier by helping me pack up a

09:58pre-made travel bag that essentially mimicked everything that was already in the cabinet.

10:02Best part about this is you can hang it. Ooh. So now whenever I travel I have this ready to

10:08go bag

10:09and I'll never forget anything ever again. Towards the end we labeled each section and before I knew it

10:14my bathroom had gone from an explosive mess to a neat and orderly space that I now want to spend

10:20all of my time in. I actually think I might sleep in the tub.

10:37Wow!

10:42Friday was focused on editing and reorganizing my desk space. This area of my home makes me so incredibly

10:48happy because it's pretty much where I sit every morning when I'm drinking my coffee or when I'm

10:52journaling. The problem is I didn't have any sort of way to organize all the supplies that I have so

10:57either everything was tucked away neatly so that the desk was clean or everything was totally splayed

11:02out and I had everything at my disposal but it was a complete and utter mess. So we got started

11:06by

11:07setting aside the supplies that I don't use and made a donation pile and then we started organizing the rest.

11:13I'm a pen fiend. We assembled a new set of bins to put right next to the desk, separated the

11:18pens and

11:18markers into individual containers, and then began filing things away in an arrangement that made the

11:23most sense for me. Are you like ready to do art now? So ready. Jamie, this is amazing. Thank you

11:32so much.

11:33You're welcome. How do you feel? I feel good. You feel good. I feel amazing.

11:56Even after the hoarderly team left me on Friday, I was inspired to continue organizing on my own

12:01throughout the course of the weekend. Everything from my front closet where I completely cleaned it

12:05out and then organized a neat shelf for all of my backup bathroom essentials to cleaning out the

12:09drawer in my kitchen where I used to throw everything in it and it was a total junk drawer and

12:13even

12:14tidying up the bottom of the kitchen sink area that used to be exploding with cleaning supplies and

12:19plastic bags. I was also inspired to clean up some of my digital spaces so I organized all the apps

12:24on

12:25my iPhone into categories and I also cleaned up the desktop icons on my computer and now I'm just on

12:30a major organization kick. Seriously, I can't stop. So up next, I'm going to clean out my entire kitchen

12:36and also the rest of my apartment and then my desk at work. I really hope this video inspires you

12:41to

12:41get organized this month and please comment below if you have any other organization tips that you

12:46might be hoarding away. And good luck to everyone out there who's going back to school. Comment below and

12:51let me know what other five-day challenges you want to see me try and we'll see you next time

12:55on

12:55Try Living with Lucy. Bye guys. Hey YouTube, thanks for watching. Click here for another five-day challenge,

13:01here to subscribe to R29 on YouTube, and right here for my personal YouTube channel. See ya!

5 Days Of Becoming More Organized | Try Living With Lucie | Refinery29

Category

Transcript

Comments

Recommended