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, […]

Organizing Your Car For those of us who spend a lot of time driving, have children and/or work out of our car, we can find it challenging to keep a car organized let alone clean. A cluttered car can be a source of embarrassment especially since people can view right into this “home” on wheels […]

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 […]

Gray, once thought of as depressing and drab, is hot, hot, hot in interior design with designers pairing it with citron green, bright yellow, tangerine and purple to make the color come alive. When thinking of gray, we may conjure images of an overcast day, feeling alone, forlorn, distant, brooding. While grey has the ability […]

Saving things is a natural behavior for humans. We save paper, magazines, clothes, photos, love letters, sports memorabilia, records/CDs, our children’s artwork, documents, and so much more. What do we need to save? What is truly important to save? Why do we feel compelled to save things in the first place? Living in a physical […]

Some may wonder, “why bother organizing? It’s just going to get messed up anyways.” Or, “as soon I get things in place, they fall out of place and get disorderly.” Or, “there’s too much paper, mail and other things that my mind can’t deal with. I see it and want to go do something ‘fun’”. […]

Paper, paper everywhere and no place to put it. Or files; files for everything and we have no idea where the file is, what’s in the file or why we have it. Filing needs to be simplified as well as revisited to see what we have in our hidden drawers to cast out the old […]

Some may of heard of the title “productivity consultant” or “productivity strategist,” though my guess is not many. It is the latest title for those in the field of professional organizing. With companies wanting to get the most out of their employees, they need to guide and direct them to use time effectively and to […]

Organize Shmorganize, right? Some people think organizing is a waste of time, not worth the expense, too hard to deal with and takes too long to accomplish. Let me share 5 points of why I think organizing is valuable. Point 1: Get out of Overwhelm. When I work with clients, overwhelm and panic are the […]