BRING QUIET TO VISUAL NOISE. Certain areas can get so crowded and “loud” that they hurt the eye. At home, a refrigerator door that’s plastered with school schedules, children’s artwork, expired coupons, magazine clippings, tattered flyers, and rubbery magnets is neither a helpful resource nor a place of beauty, and it will make the kitchen seem messy, even if everything else is beautifully ordered. At work, a computer screen framed with dozens of scrawled sticky-note reminders creates visual cacophony. Try to bring down the noise level.
