What Marie Kondo's Home Really Looks Like

You probably know Marie Kondo, the world-renowned decluttering expert, bestselling author, and star of the hit Netflix series Tidying Up with Marie Kondo. But while fans loved watching Kondo reorganize other people's messes on her show, many have wondered

what

this organization expert's

home

is

really

like. This is

what

we know! "Hello, I'm Marie Kondo. My mission is to bring joy to the world through order." Kondo made a name for herself in the United States as a cleaning guru, leading many

home

owners to adopt her unique KonMari method. This Japanese order expert, who developed her love for organization at age 5, bases many of her strategies on Japanese culture, where order is part of everyday life.

The expert explained her minimalist approach, telling HuffPost: "Properties and houses in Japan are small! I grew up in a house where my family of five spread out futons and slept next to each other in a room about 13 mx 13 m. There is not much space for storage, so furniture and small appliances are needed. Kondo learned to keep her living space tidy after the birth of her daughter in 2015, as she explained to Good Housekeeping: "Spatially, it was a big challenge after giving birth to my baby. Lots of clothes, diapers, and stuff." became a big challenge." While Kondo grew up in Japan, the cleaning guru took her organizational skills to California.

Kondo, who believes things should be thrown away if they no longer "spark joy"... ...explained on his blog: "I usually move once a year. The longest my husband and I have lived in a house is a year and a half!" Shortly before the premiere of her Netflix series in January 2019, Kondo moved into a house in Los Angeles with her husband and her children. two daughters, according to the LA Times. This is probably because the eight families featured in the show's first season live in California. "The point here is that I'm not going to order for you. It's everyone's job to declutter their own space." Because Kondo's minimalist approach to cleaning, as seen in her series, it's easy to assume that her own home is minimalist, too.

But that's not exactly the case. She explained to Elle Decor: "I don't have a particular decorating style, but one thing I like to maintain in my home is to have a very purified environment." That "purified environment" involves allowing fresh air into your home, placing crystals in different places." rooms of the house and present salt as part of the Japanese tradition Kondo's daily life is about creating the atmosphere, restoring balance and being grateful for what he has. One of the places in Kondo's house where he expresses his gratitude is his. Japanese-style kamidana, a Shinto home altar. Every morning, Kondo wakes up around 6 a.m., often without an alarm clock, burns incense, opens the windows to let in fresh air, and kneels before the altar to pray. in cleaning explained to The Cut: "I will pray for the health of my family and friends, and also for myself, so that I can do what needs to be done to the extent possible." While the small shrine comes from the Shinto religion, Kondo explained that her practices are not religious, adding: "Actually, this is not a religious thing.

It's just that I take this time every morning to feel gratitude. It's a practice ". I started when I was still single, maybe about seven years ago." Since launching her KonMari consulting business at age 19, Kondo has built a large following, as well as over 200 certified KonMari consultants, which has helped her to spread her gospel of order. "This is a very profound process, no matter what." But, surprisingly, the queen of order does not have her own office. Instead, Kondo works in a corner of her house and tells The. Cut: "I don't have a separate room that I use as an office, but I do have my corner, with an antique desk and chair, that I use to work." The business-savvy mother of two often works on her laptop, drinks tea, and keeps a small vase of flowers or a scented spray on her desk.

She told the outlet, "For work, I like a mint or grapefruit-based scent. So I'll spray a little bit of that on and then start writing down the day's tasks in a notebook." Many of Kondo's clients seem to have particular difficulties with cooking. "I don't know what it is about the kitchen, I honestly feel like I'll never be able to keep it clean. It was

really

after having kids that everything became more in-your-face, and I think I can't do all this." But Kondo herself doesn't need much help reorganizing her kitchen, simply because she doesn't own many kitchen utensils to begin with.

She told Bon Appétit: "The last thing I KonMarié took out of my kitchen was nothing! I have the opposite problem. I always have very few items in the kitchen, so right now I'm adding more things. I recently replaced my "boards." cutting are something that really brings me joy, made from Gingko trees. I'm also looking for a large, sharp knife." In the KonMari Method, kitchen items are included in the miscellaneous category, so the process for organizing kitchen clutter is not as detailed as in other categories. However, As with the rest of the home, it's important to keep only those items that spark joy.

You probably won't be surprised to learn that the tidying expert consumes several cups of tea a day as part of her routine. "I probably have about 15 different types of tea in my cupboard at any given time." Kondo uses tea time as a necessary break from work and usually rewards herself with an extra cup after completing a task. told the outlet: "I drink several cups of tea a day. So that will be my break. After I've accomplished a few things or start to feel tired, I'll get up and make another cup." Some of Kondo's favorite teas include green tea, white tea, and matcha tea, which she drinks for breakfast (according to Bon Appétit) and a of herbs when she wakes up in the morning and at night.

According to Kondo's website, her tea drinking originates from her childhood, when Kondo was introduced to the Japanese tea ceremony by her paternal grandmother as part of the popular tea method. Kondo's ordination, urges people to express gratitude for the beauty of the world around them. "And you will begin to create... the life you have always longed for. Kondo can often be seen expressing his gratitude toward nature and." plant life on Instagram because it's one of the things that brings her great joy. One can only assume, then, that the tidying expert loves flowers, because they're all over her home!

Before going to bed, I go around the house and change the water in the vases. I have flowers everywhere." In addition to filling her home with colorful flowers that bring her inspiration, Kondo likes to fill the hotel rooms she checks into with beautiful arrangements to spark joy while traveling. The mom also includes her family on her floral excursions, according to her Instagram, and fill her garden with plants. Seriously, her house must smell amazing! After Kondo's series premiered on Netflix, viewers around the world were hooked on the decluttering tactics! But some disagreed with her rule of getting rid of too many books.

In her program and in her book, The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Tidying Up and Organizing, Kondo advocates throwing away things you don't have. They don't bring joy to a person's life. And for Kondo, having 30 books in her house was too much. While her comments were met with criticism, Kondo explained to the Los Angeles Times that there may have been a misunderstanding regarding the concept, saying. : "I think there are misconceptions. I think this happened because in one of my books I said that when I was organizing and reviewing my books. I had about 30 books left.

Maybe I was reading wrong there." Earlier that month, Kondo shared with IndieWire: "So it's not so much about what I personally think about the books. The question you should ask yourself is what you think about books." Everyone has a habit they can't break, even Marie Kondo. While most of her philosophy revolves around finding a place for every item you own, Sometimes the soft-spoken organizer can't follow her own rules. In an interview with The Guardian in 2018, Kondo said, "I love wearing slippers, but I take them off in random places in the house; "I can't leave them on for long, so they're scattered." In Kondo's perfect world, she makes sure to clean her shoes as soon as she enters her house before putting on her comfy slippers.

She explained to People magazine: "When I get home at the end of the day, I gratefully wipe the soles of my shoes before putting them away in the closet near the entrance to my house. Then I put on my house slippers." While running a tidy empire, raising two young children, and starring in her own Netflix series, it's understandable that Kondo occasionally leaves her slippers lying around. Still, we doubt her house will ever "Is your house tidy?" Loss," Kondo guided a widow through the decluttering process, a journey that included sorting through her late husband's belongings. "I don't want to just throw it away.

I want to think about it." Every step of the way, Kondo explained the importance of offering a sincere "thank you" to personal items before throwing them away. "It's a real shock to see all this life we've lived and the dreams that he had, and now they're all piled up on the floor." While Kondo is a pro when it comes to helping others say goodbye to sentimental items, she grudgingly admitted her inability to part with one particular personal item and told him told Good Housekeeping: "I have this stuffed stamp. It's very small. It was a gift from my father, and even though I'm an adult, I still keep it on my shelf.

It's something I can't get rid of! Then you'll find at least one stuffed animal in Marie Kondo's house. It displays correctly, of course. Kondo is a successful mother of two lively girls and she is doing her best to support her cleaning business while she raises them to be neat too. "Explain to your children what you are doing, so they can learn from you." Kondo often travels for interviews and public appearances and she can recall happy memories of her daughters on her phone when she needs it. But Kondo also likes to have physical photos around her, specifically around the writing space in her house, because they, as she told Variety, "recharge energy." She described the two images that, quote, "give a little squeeze to the heart." They are of her youngest daughter smiling from ear to ear for the first time and a self-portrait of her oldest daughter.

As Kondo wrote in an Instagram post, "My children show me how joy manifests in the body." Kondo's house has many elements that bring her joy. After all, it is important for her to create a serene space where she can unleash her creativity. But for Kondo to get any work done, she likes to have a purified space. "Crystals. Yes, they are crystals, my mother gave them to me for good luck. Do you have a collection too? Yes." One of the things she surrounds herself with, at home, is crystals. As she told Variety, she likes to place a small crystal near her laptop, while she places larger crystals around the room.

She uses crystals to cleanse the air around her, a practice she learned before publishing her best-selling book. She explained to Variety: "I typically write about how to create more joy in our lives and how to let the atmosphere around us create more joy, so it's very important that the spaces I create create joy for me as well." Check out one of our newest videos right here! Plus, there will be more Lista videos about your favorite celebrities coming soon. Subscribe to our YouTube channel and press the bell so you don't miss a single one.