Sea Ferre (Barcelona, 1971) dedicated himself to banking for 25 years, until an appointment at the branch coincided with a great revelation in his life. He dropped in his mayos the book ‘The magic of order’, by marie condo. She impacted him so much that since 2018, and after meeting the famous Japanese guru, she specialized in order. Today, she is a professional organizer and coach of @order therapyand among her achievements is being the creator of the cajon flow’, one of the most effective tricks to keep the order at home, especially when it has also become the office where we telework.
We present here this fashionable solution that is very easy to put into practice:
“The flow drawer is the fruit of me professional experience. Before, he worked in the audit department of a bank, and when we finished the day, the tables had to be completely empty, without any kind of documentation. The next day he had to rescue everything again, because the project was still halfway through, it wasn’t finished. It made me very angry to have to keep everything in its place, the manuals, the lists…, so he took everything, just like that, and kept it in an empty basket he had, and then locked it up. Thus the idea was born. When I left my job at the bank, I also moved flats, and now my office is my home.”
“‘Flow’: I gave it that name because the idea is to let the empty spaces flow. When I began to investigate to work more professionally on the subject of order, I realized the most practical part of empty spaces. Horizontal surfaces attract clutter: the dining room table, the marble in the kitchen, in the bathroom… They are a source of chaos. Our natural tendency is to occupy everything.”
“The idea of this space is to delimit the chaos of horizontal surfaces in a certain corner and separate well what is the rest area of the home from the work area. The concept ‘flow’ has to do with a flexible and adaptable space (to our habits and needs at all times), in which energy flow, where there may be movement of objects”.
“Marie Condo It has inspired me a lot, but above all for the most symbolic part of the cajon ‘flow’especially in terms of feng shui. In the end, everything around you is a reflection of you, your house is a reflection of yourself. If you come to my house and see the objects that I keep in it, without knowing me, you can already get an idea of what lifestyle I have.”
“The drawer ‘flow’ covers the need for emptiness, to leave space for there to be new things in your life. On a symbolic level, leaving an empty space means that one is open to new opportunities.”
The ‘flow’ drawer can not only be used as a wildcard of order in teleworking at home. For example, this space can be dedicated to seasonal things, Christmas decorations, beach decorations, ski decorations… explains Ferré. “It will be the place to put them for those two, three, four months. And then you can put it back.” “In the courses I do for companies I like to do surveys, and I always ask ‘for you, what is an empty space?’ And people usually answer that it is a wasted space. But it is not like that. With clothes there is the 80/20 rule, that is, only 20% of our clothes are the ones we use the most. If we do a good process [de orden y limpieza]Really we should only leave what we are wearing in the closets. It is preferable to give these clothes a lot of use and then go back to buy, than not having so many ‘just in case’ that in the end you don’t wear them. If you keep things that you do not use, you will be filling your closet with noise, and also, you will be investing part of your time in moving that garment that you do not like or do not use with each change of season.
“It will depend on the material we use to work. For example, I use four papers, a pen, a book and a laptop. With a space of 60×30 I have enough. A totally empty space is not necessary either, a half-empty or half-full one also works, depending on how you look at it. If a drawer as such is not available, can also be worth a basket or a box. Then that basket can be put on a shelf.”
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“Empty spaces, besides facilitate cleaningas well greatly reduce visual noise. We already have too many stimuli, such as advertisements when we go down the street, social networks… That’s why, in our house, which is our kingdom, it helps a lot to have those empty or semi-empty spaces. That will give us a feeling of lightness… I visit many houses that are densewith very dark woods that increase that sensation, with packed bookstores… They almost take my breath away”.
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