Kathryn Bechen

Kathryn Bechen is an award-winning lifestyle writer, a veteran organizer, and a DIY decorator who has relocated many times around the U.S.A., setting up, organizing, and decorating 16 personal small-space residences with her longtime handy husband Steve. They have also stayed in 69 charming Bed & Breakfast Inns in 17 U.S. states, all real-life personal experiences that inspired Kathryn to write several tips eBooks to help people turn their own homes into pleasant and dollarwise havens.  

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Kathryn has been interviewed for her home insights and tips by many media outlets such as Martha Stewart Living Radio, Woman's Day, Family Circle, Woman's World, All You, and The Washington Post.  Over the years, she has also been hired to write for U.S. home and garden magazines and for private clients in the shelter niche. 

Now a senior who has lived with her husband in Arizona's Valley of the Sun since 2018, Kathryn continues to share her love of DIY home topics through writing eBooks vs. seminars and consulting. In her earlier years she consulted both in-person and virtually about organizing and productivity for many people, from a fine home builder in Nebraska to a busy young Mom in Costa Rica.  Additionally, she developed several organizing seminars and speeches that she presented to institutions like Creighton University and UNO, but she jokes that her favorite "organizing students" were her 7th graders when she was a young English teacher and she insisted they learn to organize their papers better, so she added organizing skills to her lesson plans.  Other past jobs that have added to Kathryn's organizing repertoire were various office admin roles, being the right hand to disorganized lawyers, and working in several libraries in her 20s, where Dewey Decimal became her best friend. 

Not only her work, but her DNA has definitely contributed to Kathryn's zest for order, as she is descended from a long line of Germans who love order and systems for the greater good. (Kathryn believes she has found her 8th generation German grandmother online through ancestry research.) 

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Loving education and learning her entire life, Kathryn has always been a curious traveler and an insatiable reader. She holds a B.A. in English/Education and a C.I.D. decorating certificate. ​​​