Will Marie Kondo's new book help you achieve your ideal life? 

As 'Kurashi at Home: How to Organize Your Space and Achieve Your Ideal Life' hits the shops this week, we roadtest its advice

Marie Kondo Her new book Kurashi at Home focuses on organising your life.

You know how words from other languages slip into interiors terminology? Feng shui and hygge are staples now, and I’d say in no time a new term from Japan, kurashi, will join them.

According to arch-declutterer and tidy-upper Marie Kondo, kurashi describes the ideal way of spending our time, that’s after we’ve sorted, tidied, and disposed of possessions which spark no joy in our lives.