Hidden Spaces

04/12/2022

Creating more functional spaces brings me a lot of joy! Can’t wait to see how this pantry turns out!

10/02/2021

I should’ve taken a picture of the girls bathroom under the sink before I started cleaning it out. It was bad! Doors wouldn’t close! Stuff was shoved up to the bottom of the sink. 20 minutes. 20 minutes was all it took to remove what didn’t belong, organize what did and put stuff back around the house.

Months of frustration for a 20 minute task. 😂

08/13/2021

02/21/2021

Ok, another fun info sharing post. I hate hard water stains in my toilet. I found a super simple solution!

always hated the hard water ring! No more! I found an easy to clean solution!

02/13/2021

Click on the picture to see them larger. This room was packed so full that we couldn’t fully open the door. My client and I spent 6.5 hours to complete this room.

Step one: pull everything out and sort into categories.
Not returning to storage room:
- belongs somewhere else in house
- garage
- trash/recycle
- giving to someone else
- rehome
Back into storage:
- travel
- kitchen overflow
- memories/photo albums
- musical stuff
- home decor

Step two:
- return everything to storage organized
- first shelf is China, cookware, kitchen etc
- second shelf is decor, outdated electronics with pictures that need retrieved and historical paperwork.
- third shelf is music and travel
- all top shelves is long term childhood memories and old photo albums that are never looked at.

- the stuff she was getting rid of we posted as a “take it all” lot on Beavercreek Buy Nothing page. The recipient can take what she wants and repost the rest. It filled my car!

- trash out
- stuff
- owners have a few boxes of paperwork to make decisions on in their own time.

02/05/2021

01/31/2021

Parents: sanity saver....take a deep breath. Your child’s ability or inability to be tidy is not necessarily a reflection on you.

I know parents who angrily insist that their children like mine get their act together, but I’m not that parent. I was, but not anymore.

This child is 12. If she wants to have a friend over, she cleans it all up. When she doesn’t have that sort of external motivation, she truly doesn’t care.

My anger or frustration is not a fair motivator. When I’m on her to keep up with this, she literally spends all day laying on her floor in the middle of the floor saying she’s working on it.

She does have unmedicated inattentive ADHD and with ADHD myself, I understand that when your heart isn’t in it, it’s like walking through knee deep mud trying to do what you’re not interested in.

But she can lay in one spot for 5 hours straight and walk out with a masterpiece.....laying on top of piles of junk! It’s how her mind works.

Her mess may NOT spill over into the hall or the rest of the house but as long as her door closes, I’ve made peace with her mess.

01/26/2021

People and spaces thrive with boundaries. What belongs in a given space?

As you’re organizing, take everything that doesn’t belong in that space out of that space. What ends up happening is that eventually you have a space that is full of all the items you didn’t find a home for.

Do you need those things?
How do you imagine you would feel if you let those items go?

01/18/2021

With expired medicine:

Peel the labels that have your personal information on them. Most of them nowadays can be peeled. Some of the older ones need to be soaked. Recycle the bottles. Take your bag of pills to your local pharmacy or police station to dispose of. Do not flush down the toilet or throw in the trash.

01/07/2021

Ladies have you ever heard of Stuffed Animal Beanbags?! WHAT!? These are SOOO great! A client and a friend each shared theirs with me this week and this is such a fabulous idea for stuffed animal storage!

You can buy them for between $20-35 each, depending...or you could make something similar if you're a seamstress and have a bunch of fabric. It's pretty much a zippered bag to store stuffed animals in and lay on.

Unicorn Stuffed Animal Toy Storage Kids Bean Bag Chair Cover Large Size 24x24 Inch Velvet Extra Soft Stuffed Organization Replace Mesh Toy Hammock for Kids Blankets Towels Clothes Home Supplies Pink

01/07/2021

Overwhelmed by the idea of organizing? It's SIMPLE, and anyone can do it! You just have to know where to start. Do you know where to start? I think you'l...

01/05/2021

I am feeling on top of the world my friends!
I get to spend my day transforming peoples homes and tonight I will be transforming minds… At a local MOPS group (Mothers of preschoolers).

Did you know that every single organizing job begins in your mind? Every single restored marriage began in the mind. Every single transformation of any sort begins in your mind.

If there is something in your life that you would like to change, start with the way you think about it!