The Small Space Method

You have searched this before.

Small apartment storage. How to organize a studio. Renter-friendly ideas. And what came back was a list of products — tension rods, adhesive hooks, over-door organizers — from sites that earn money when you click.

Some of those products are good. But none of those pages can tell you not to buy anything.

This book names no products at all.

It is a method for deciding what goes where in an apartment you do not own and will not keep. Four steps, run once for each of the things your home actually has to do:

Watch — find where a function really happens, not where it is supposed to

Measure — compare what it needs against what it has, with your own tape measure

Clear — take out whatever is competing, and buy nothing at this step

Hold — make it survive an ordinary week, using something that comes off the wall clean and fits in a box when you move

Everything in it works under a lease that forbids alterations. Everything in it survives a move.

Organized by what you do, not by which room you are standing in. Seven functions, one chapter each, plus a chapter on the move itself.

Not a photo book. Not a decluttering book. Not room by room. Not for owners. No products, no brands, no shopping list.

Ada Renwick rents. That is the whole qualification — no design training, no organizing certification, no clients.

Take a tape measure. Most of the work needs nothing else.