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Your Home Kitchen
mission Advice to make planning process go smoothly Katherine Roth ASSOCIATED PRESS
So you want a new kitchen? Whether you’re considering designing a kitchen using your own architect, a kitchen planner hired through a store like IKEA or Home Depot, or an online planning service, professionals suggest keeping a few things in mind.
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Samantha Gluck designed this kitchen for Semihandmade. The Los Angeles company makes cabinets, drawer fronts and accessories specifically made to fit IKEA cabinet boxes. SEMIHANDMADE VIA AP; PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY RACHEL VAN BLANKENSHIP/ USA TODAY NETWORK; AND GETTY
Marie Kondo expands decluttering empire Leanne Italie ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW YORK – People often ask Japanese tidying queen Marie Kondo what containers they need to achieve her brand of organizational success. They expect her to “reveal some hitherto secret storage weapon,” she explains in her popular book.
Instead, she advised when “The LifeChanging Magic of Tidying Up” was first published in Japanese in 2011, “You can solve your storage problems with things you already have in the house.” But Kondo’s thinking has evolved as she’s leveraged her massive, global fan base to expand her empire. She’s now got an upcoming Netflix show and a fledgling corps of consultants working
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around the world to help her fans declutter their homes, and, on Tuesday, she launched her first product line: sixpiece sets of beautiful, sturdy paper boxes for $89 a pop. In a recent appearance in Manhattan to announce the show and merchandise line, Kondo said she thinks lovely storage options will spark the life-changing joy she wrote about in her book, which
has sold more than 10 million copies in 40-plus countries. She also hopes the boxes will motivate more people to actually complete all the steps in her laborious KonMari Method of sorting, tossing and putting things away in their right and righteous locations. The new storage sets are the shape See KONDO, Page 4H
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