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? […]

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 […]

 Spring and Fall we naturally feel inclined and engaged to get into action on delayed projects and tasks as well as take classes to learn something new. With the return of Spring, we have the opportunity to restore order to our surroundings so we can live and work with greater productivity and creativity. Spring is […]

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 […]

Personalizing a space is essential in creating an environment and atmosphere that reflects an outward expression of ourselves. Yet too often I see spaces that have been copied out of catalogs or are a hodge podge of assorted items that don’t work together let alone belong together. The goal is to create a home and […]

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 […]

Confusion, loss of time, decreased productivity, and embarrassment and shame are signs of disorganized living and work environments. Functioning with greater ease and flow are paramount to having the lives we desire as well as the environments in which we function. When clutter and disorder rule these spaces, we lose inspiration, effectiveness, focus and joy. […]

With the holidays passed and the New Year upon us, we have the chance to make a difference in our lives by clearing the clutter that has bogged us down from moving forward and manifesting our goals and dreams. Yes, clutter psychologically, mentally, emotionally and physically hinders our progress, our productivity and creativity. If order […]

In my line of work the most common emotion I encounter in new clients is overwhelm–the feeling they are overrun and overtaken by their things and they don’t know how to deal with or address. My job is to assuage their fears by reducing the scary image of a mountain of stuff to bite-sized piles […]

Beautifying a  room doesn’t have to be a major ordeal nor does it require great expense. Most people have the basics while others need additional items to aid the process. These five steps can help in beautifying your space. 1. What state is the room in? Is it filled with clutter? Is there stuff all […]