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'It's not just about making a home look beautiful': Two friends set up business to help declutter spaces

Two childhood friends have turned their shared interest in organising spaces into a business, helping Singapore residents declutter homes and make better use of their living spaces, especially within the Malay/Muslim community.Humairah Junid and Nurussakinah Yahya, both 33, co-founded The Space Edit in February this year and have helped organise about 60 homes, Berita Harian (BH) reported on Wednesday (Oct...

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Humairah Junid and Nurussakinah Yahya, both 33, co-founded The Space Edit in February this year and have helped organise about 60 homes, Berita Harian (BH) reported on Wednesday (Oct 28).

Their work has given them first-hand insight into the challenges of decluttering.

The pair experienced this themselves when they helped a woman in her 70s tidy and reorganise her room, BH reported.

Rather than urging her to discard belongings accumulated over decades, the pair suggested donating items she no longer needed.

"This is one of the approaches we use to help clients like her become more open to letting go of items they no longer need," BH quoted Nurussakinah as saying.

The company offers home-organising and space-management services as an alternative to conventional interior design, focusing on reducing clutter and making existing spaces more functional.

Humairah, who also founded Hubakesmaicake, said her interest in space organisation had developed long before she pursued comparative religion studies.

She returned to her interest in design and space management after graduating, while Nurussakinah, a teacher, shares her passion for keeping homes organised and promoting women's mental well-being.

"This is not just about making a home look beautiful and organised, but about helping its occupants feel calmer, more comfortable and less stressed in their own living spaces," said Nurussakinah.

Their clients include working mothers struggling to manage household spaces, families helping elderly parents declutter and people moving into new homes.

Services include unpacking and organising belongings, with sessions typically lasting five to eight hours.

The founders said a common misconception was that clutter could be resolved by buying more storage boxes.

Instead, clients should first identify which belongings they genuinely need before setting up suitable storage systems.

They assess clients' needs beforehand using photos and videos of the spaces and stressed that no items would be discarded without permission.

Separately, Singapore's HealthHub identifies cluttered floors and walkways as potential fall hazards, particularly for older people.

The Space Edit charges $800 for five-hour sessions and $1,200 for eight-hour sessions, BH reported.

Despite the physical demands of the work, the founders said seeing clients regain comfortable, functional living spaces motivate them to continue helping people manage clutter and build a healthier relationship with their possessions.

"In our fast-paced urban lives, we are constantly exposed to consumerism and the pressure to keep up with the times, until we unknowingly accumulate more and more things," they told BH.

AsiaOne has reached out to Humairah and Nurussakinah for more information.

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两位儿时好友将他们对空间整理的共同兴趣发展成了一项事业，帮助新加坡居民整理家居，更好地利用居住空间，尤其是在马来/穆斯林社区。

据《每日新闻》（Berita Harian，简称BH）周三（10月28日）报道，33岁的胡迈拉·朱尼德（Humairah Junid）和努鲁萨基娜·叶海亚（Nurussakinah Yahya）于今年2月共同创立了The Space Edit，并帮助整理了约60个家庭。

他们的工作让他们对整理物品所面临的挑战有了切身的体会。

据BH报道，这对夫妇曾亲身经历过这种情况，他们帮助一位70多岁的妇女整理和重新布置了她的房间。

与其劝她丢弃几十年来积累的物品，不如说这对夫妇建议她把不再需要的物品捐赠出去。

BH援引努鲁萨基娜的话说：“这是我们帮助像她这样的客户更容易接受放弃不再需要的物品的方法之一。”

该公司提供家居整理和空间管理服务，作为传统室内设计的替代方案，专注于减少杂物，使现有空间更加实用。

胡迈拉（Humairah）也是 Hubakesmaicake 的创始人，她说，早在她从事比较宗教学研究之前，她就对太空组织产生了兴趣。