There’s a bank of drawers in the kitchen. Four drawers to keep the flow flowing and the working kitchen working.

I sliced the packing tape along the joins of the box flaps and opened them wide, picked up the thoughtful card resting at the top, thanking me for my order.

It wasn’t until yesterday that I took my own advice, when, in the muddle of a full work day, I began my fall home edit

Now you can see. Now you know. Now it’s clear why those first steps that told who you are and where you’re going with your home were so important.

Perhaps you’ll dive right in and begin with the contents of an entire room. Maybe you’ll edit your shoe collection. Or, in the tiniest of baby steps, you’ll begin with your pencil cup.

Zipped pouches here, handbags there. Clogs in this one, flats in that one. Leather belts rolled and tucked alongside folded jeans. Scarves hanging from a hoop, hoop hanging from the closet rod.