ABOUT KAT
Katharina is a New York-based fashion creative.
Since 2016 she is consulting clients all over the world as an autodidactic apartment therapist. Her practice combines the art of traditional Feng Shui and Space Clearing with common sense and a "getting shit done attitude."
I am a modernist I look forward
I am not limited by the past
MY PATH TO BECOMING A MINIMALIST
I have undergone an apartment transformation over the past few years. There was no precise moment that I decided to become a minimalist, whereas today, many people would give me that name. My father passed away when I was seventeen. This is how, at an early age, I possessed a large amount of antique furniture, design objects, and books. They were the things my father used to love, and for a long time, I felt responsible for keeping them. I would carry them with me every time I moved to a new city, paying a lot of money to store them securely while living abroad. They were so heavy and, I felt heavy, and I felt sad. When I would ask my father's sister what to do with all the stuff, where to fit it, she always put pressure on me by saying: “You have to take care of this, this is your father's...“ The moment I realized that giving away the things my father loved doesn’t mean discarding the memory of him, I was free.
I want to help others with the knowledge I gathered along my path to feeling the lightness of life.
You might not have inherited the stuff you possess.
Maybe you just accumulated too much over the past years.
I used to have a walk-in closet in my family's house the size of an average Berlin studio apartment. I had an array of stuff I thought I needed. Representative looking - so that when people would come to my apartment they could see how creative, intelligent and wealthy I was.
We will surround you with things that are a reflection of you, and we will let go of things that are there for others. We will reshape your idea of necessity and reevaluate desire. I am looking forward to meeting you at any point along your way.
© 2017 Goodbye Things by Katharina Korbjuhn