Neat Storage

Walking into Neat. Space. Edited. means escaping the chaos and clutter of Queen Street West and finding refuge in right angles, clean lines, and order. That’s exactly the type of experience Andrew Livingston, the owner and founder of Neat, wants his customers to have. “When people come into Neat, it activates their inner, latent neat freak,” he says. “All of a sudden, you see the potential of living more efficiently.”

The furniture design store carries a wide selection of storage boxes, kitchen utensils, cutlery trays, measuring tools, and file organizers, not to mention shelf upon shelf of other practical gadgets that can help you to compartmentalize your life. Instead of losing precious minutes in the morning looking for a pair of earrings or a computer charger, shoppers can find a myriad of products that will keep everything exactly where it should be.

Here “neat” doesn’t just mean organized. Andrew chooses products that are also neat “as in, wow, that’s amazing or interesting or innovative,” he explains. Making sure that a tight space is visually appealing in spite of its restricted physical boundaries can be a challenge. “The products that you have around you when you’re in a smaller space have to be more beautiful and more interesting,” says Andrew. Thanks to Toronto’s booming condo culture, Neat attracts a steady stream of downsizing customers who want to keep their homes cool and, well, neat.