More shelves, more bins, and nothing gets put away. Boxes on the floor. Clothes piled on chairs. Mail gathering on tables. Every house has its "I'll get to it later" pile. But when you've only been looking at it yourself, sometimes that pile never shifts. One outside set of eyes changed that family's space in a single day.
You stop seeing what you see every day
A home you look at every day has invisible things. Your brain files them away—"that's just how it is"—and you miss the fix. Mess usually isn't about furniture. It's about how you move and how much you have. But when you're inside your own life, the whole shape disappears.