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 […]

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 […]

Avoid the stress of moving 5 Tips to Moving Moving is often fraught with challenges and frustration when your entire home is turned upside down and you are under deadlines to pack and move by a certain date and then unpack and set up a new home often in the same breath. Moving challenges us […]

Drawers act as compartments to store our smaller-sized items, including undergarments, tools, utensils, bath and beauty products, loose change, pens, pencils and more. Yet too often, the out-of-sight rule applies and we end up tossing things haphazardly into  these space until things are ajumble and we can’t find what we need as they pile with […]

When organizing, the process of sorting and eliminating items are crucial first steps. We need to see what’s in the clutter and what can be kept and what needs tossing. Filtering through the “rubble” we discern the necessities then decide how to store them and where. Often clients need to save more the first time […]

Clutter, clutter everywhere and no where to sit. I recently had a client who had lived in his apartment for 12 years and had to move since his landlord was reclaiming his home. My client had saved 25 years of paper in bankers boxes piled from floor to ceiling. He also suffered from chronic fatigue […]

As human beings, we are masters of hiding things, deceiving ourselves that we can make things “disappear”–out of sight, out of mind–so we don’t have to look at it. Well, this strategy only lasts for so long until the places where we’ve been hiding things is overflowing and we can’t stuff anything else in there. […]

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’”. […]

With all of the things we own, we need a place to put them. Many clients that I work with don’t have a good sense of how to use their closet, garage and other storage spaces effectively. There often is a lot of wasted space, things piled atop each other, things randomly sorted together, excess […]

Many clients I work with struggle with their garages–overstuffed with too many things they don’t even know they have: boxes, packing materials, garbage, broken and outworn items and more. My job is to pull all that stuff out into the bright sunlight and look at it with new eyes. My job is also to get […]