The six-S method for the home
Turn a home that fights you into one that keeps itself.
Sort, Straighten, Shine, Safety, Standardize, Sustain. A borrowed-from-the-factory system, rebuilt for real homes, that moves the needle from daily friction to lasting calm.
No account, no card, no email. Start at your front door and finish something in about fifteen minutes.
Would rather not do it yourself? Have someone run it with you, from $250.
One method, six moves
The six S's, in the order that works
Each S is one clear move. Do them in order and the home shifts from chaos to calm, one step at a time. Safety is the fourth S, the difference that makes this method a home method.
Free, and finished
Two ways to start in the next minute
Neither needs an account, a card, or an email address. They are the whole method for a real room, given away, because the fastest way to find out whether this works in your house is to use it in your house.
The Home Quest
Six hundred and eighty four cards across all 114 micro zones. Draw one, do one job, put it down. It remembers where you got to, in your browser and nowhere else.
Draw a card → Print at homeThe Entryway Deck
Forty six cards that take one entryway through all six passes. Prints nine to a page at true trading card size, so you can deal them out on a table.
Print the deck → ReadingWhy it stops working
Long form on why a clean room drifts back inside a week, where to start when the whole house feels like too much, and how long a room actually takes.
Read the articles →Or don't do it yourself
Have someone run the reset with you
Everything above is free and stays free. This is the part we sell: a person working the room with you, in the right order, until it holds on its own.
Virtual Home Consult
One hour on video · $250
Anywhere with a phone signal. You carry the camera round the room, and together we name what that space is meant to do, what is stopping it, and which micro zone to fix first. You keep a written plan and a product list.
In-Home Reset Day · Treasure Valley, Idaho
A full day on site · $1,200
One area, start to finish, in your house, with you. All six S's in order, then labels, visual controls and a written standard, so what got fixed is still fixed a month later. Boise, Meridian, Eagle, Nampa, Kuna, Star and Garden City.
Run by Philip Kling, who wrote the method: twenty years of Lean Six Sigma inside organizations, the record is here. We have not run a paid reset day yet, so there is no customer quote to show you. If a session is not useful, tell us within seven days and we refund it. Working premises rather than a home? Lean 6S for a team is quoted per engagement.
The method on paper
If you would rather hold it than scroll it
The same six passes, printed. These are not the business, they are the method written down for people who want the whole thing in one place, at four prices.
Why it works at home
It started as a factory discipline for eliminating waste. It turns out a home, where you are the worker, the manager, and the customer, needs it even more.
6S does not ask you to become a tidier person. It changes the method, not your character, so a good home holds even on your worst day.
The story behind 6S →The book
6S Success: Home Edition
Fifty chapters walk the whole journey, from choosing your first room to a home that quietly keeps itself, then room by room through twenty playbooks.
Room by room
Twenty rooms, broken into 114 micro zones
A whole room is too big to start. A micro zone is not. Each room breaks into named micro zones you reset one at a time, in a fixed order, with the product types each one needs. Pick the room you are standing in.
Pick one room. Start this weekend.
Start free with one micro zone, read the whole method for nothing, or have somebody run the room with you from $250.