Soulspace : : Transform Your Home, Transform Your Life--Creating a Home That is Free of Clutter, Full of Beauty, and Inspired by you

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Call Number: 747 Ba, Adult Book / Nonfiction / Home & Garden / Decorating & Organizing / Balbes, Xorin
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Malletts Creek Branch

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Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	747 Ba	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Malletts Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Nonfiction / Home & Garden / Decorating & Organizing / Balbes, Xorin	4-week checkout	On Shelf

Includes index.
"Expertly designed and decorated homes don't necessarily feel like havens to their dwellers or reflect, inspire, and celebrate what is essential about their inhabitants. Lauded designer and architectural conservator Xorin Balbes created the eight-stage SoulSpace transformation process to help his clients do just that. Through the stages -- assess, release, cleanse, dream, discover, create, elevate, and celebrate -- readers explore not only the design of their living spaces but also their own interiors: the ways they think, feel, and sense. Through client stories, exercises, Q & As, and bountiful photos and illustrations, Balbes guides readers to decode clues to what they wish for, deny, and need to move forward. Empowered with this self-knowledge, they are free to declutter, refresh, and enhance their living spaces. Suitable for any budget and for one wall or one room, apartments or mansions, Balbes's wonderfully unique technique nurtures and transforms both souls and their spaces"-- Provided by publisher.

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A bit woo; wish it featured more realistic budgets. submitted by terpsichore17 on June 21, 2022, 12:44pm The fact that I keep picking up books like this indicates I'm looking for something home-wise and am not quite satisfied yet. Balbes reads like a Western, vaguely new-age spin on Marie Kondo; she focuses more on tidying the space by removing what it does not need, while he focuses on shaping the space - what Kondo would call 'the click point'.

Ultimately, I think both focus on the same thing: we must be honest with ourselves about what we do and what we desire, and if our space is set up accordingly, then of course we will stay on the desired trajectory more readily.

However, because this man's experience is, so far as I can tell, large homes with sky-high budgets, I don't really trust his assertion that anyone can do this/any failure is just making excuses. The anecdotes of people changing their space and then reaping very distinct benefits are always intriguing, but again: give me Konmari for my money.