Croissant Special Edition: Comfortable Living from the Second Half of Life.

Due to changes in the surrounding environment, many people may have spent more time at home and reconsidered what feels comfortable to them and how they want to live.
Now, after accumulating various experiences, they want to flexibly face changes in their feelings and bodies and continue to live lightly in the future.
To do so, it is important to reduce belongings, review storage, and organize according to the sensations that feel comfortable now.
Having a home that is true to oneself and restful will surely make the latter half of life fulfilling.
Why not start gently and gradually?

［CONTENTS］
■ Moving to a home for adults
Ito Ogawa
An ideal home in the forest with a skin-friendly feel like cashmere.

Hanako Tsurezure
A detached house for living alone, where the kitchen is the main stage to enjoy the latter half of life.

Fumiko Yamamoto
Moved to her husband’s 150-year-old family home. A clean lifestyle after reviewing belongings.

Junko Ueda
Looking ahead to her husband’s retirement and children leaving home, a house that enriches couple time and alone time.

Ihoko Kurokawa
Based on neuroscience, with ingenuity throughout. A two-family home pursuing comfort for everyone.

Small daily efforts to keep the whole house always clean. 1


■ Living lightly by reducing belongings
Shion
By discarding, gained a new small life and a rich life.

Masako Ito, Kaori Hikida, Taiko Matsuo
What to let go and what to keep. The standards of those who live neatly.

Shizuko Abe
Keep only what is necessary and live lightly. A lifestyle of discarding to start from your 50s.

Methods for disposing and organizing all kinds of things, from memorabilia and lucky charms to smartphones.

Junko Furugata
Pre-mortem organizing that lightens worries about old age without overdoing it.

Small daily efforts to keep the whole house always clean. 2


■ Neatly organized tidying and storage
Saeko Matsumi
Only items that support future living. Not just reducing, but managing belongings.

Yuko Mori
Wanting to keep a comfortable living feel, so show, decorate, and use items actively.

Tomoko Mitsuma, Yukiko Goto, Noriko Ichida
Rules for tidying without strain, arrived at through accumulated living.

Nora Hirano
Keep a room empty with 15 minutes a day. Nora Hirano’s tidying habit.

Mayumi Nakayama
A 7-day program of tidying one place a day to make the house tidy in 10 minutes.

Kanae Ishii
A little ingenuity with lighting, fabrics, art… rearranging to refresh a familiar home.