Notebook
Studio Practice
The One Question Edit
One of the unexpected things that came out of writing this week’s Studio Notes was realising I’d overlooked somewhere rather obvious.
I spend much of my working life asking whether an object earns its place in a room. Every project is really a process of editing. Not adding more, but removing what no longer belongs so the things that matter can breathe.
Yet somehow I’d never asked the same question of my own bathroom cabinet.
Over the years it had quietly filled with products bought with the very best intentions. A serum that promised brighter skin. An exfoliant I’d use “when I had time”. An LED mask that still sits in the cupboard waiting for the right moment.
None of them were bad purchases.
But they had become reminders of good intentions that had never become good habits.
So, instead of buying anything new, I emptied the shelf and asked one simple question.
Does this still earn its place?
