Using Color Effectively in Your Home Color plays a key role in creating an atmosphere and feel for our living and work spaces. Unless we are particularly aware of color and pay attention to it, we may find ourselves surrounded by bland and nondescript beige, off white and white. For people renting apartments, the requisite […]

Paper & Mail Avoidance at Home Paper and mail are necessary evils in our world and one with which many of my clients struggle. Common strategies of avoiding mail include not opening it, allowing it to pile up, hiding it in boxes and bags and in corners, drawers and closets. Out of that mail is a mixture of bills, […]

Pause For Reflection The Arrival of Summer June brings the arrival of Summer, a time of fullness, ripeness, and greater expression. With it, we can find ourselves moving full steam ahead with work, home life, tending to children, social and networking obligations, commuting, exercising and more. How often do we pause to literally take a breath? […]

What’s Possible in 2016? Half A Year Ahead With half a year behind us, we have still have many opportunities to create what we desire for the remainder of the year. This tabla rasa, or blank slate, awaits our intentions. We need the planning, patience, persistence, vision and commitment to manifest our goals and take the […]

7 Steps to Order Order is becoming an increasingly valuable and valued commodity in today’s living and work environments. Those who struggle with it find a loss of productivity and creativity as well as loss of time and increase in frustration and overwhelm. We need order to keep on top of projects and day to […]

Clarity Follows Order It is written that order is the first law of the universe. Without it, chaos reigns and the basic patterns and flow of life cannot function, from the rotation of the planets to the functioning of our bodies. Clearing A Pathway I face disorder on a consistent basis working with clients whose […]

Making Sense of Our Stuff When Did We Get So Much Stuff?      When did we find ourselves with so much stuff? Some of us may have discovered this early on in our lives, while most of us found the accumulation process gathering speed once we owned a home, created a family or settled […]

Space Planning for Interior Design What Is Space Planning?      Space planning is a key component to a well-designed and well-organized space where the area in question operates with greater function, more efficiency, as well is aesthetically pleasing. Too often, I encounter various homes where space planning is given short shrift due to lack of […]

How It All Started      Working with a client for the past 2 months, who’s lived in her home for thirty years has demonstrated, yet again, the amount of stuff an individual and family can collect and keep for that time period. With an abundance of storage areas to hold things, she is now […]

How To Manage Your Garage The garage has been an area Americans have felt they’ve had permission to dump all their unwanted items as well as things they need and use, feeling justified in having a disorganized wasteland. Mounds of discarded toys, broken auto parts, tools, camping gear, holiday decor, and unwanted clothes are just […]