Professional Home Organizing
Space Refresh by Wendy offers professional organizing services, to declutter and create functional spaces in the home.
We serve clients in Vernon, Lake Country and Kelowna, in the Central and North Okanagan areas of BC.
Are you a busy Okanagan professional with more clutter in your home than time in your day to deal with it?
Have you accumulated more "stuff" than you have room for it all?
Feeling overwhelmed by chaos and looking to bring order to your home, but don't know where to start?
Embarrassed or reluctant to have friends and family over should they see it? Or perhaps there's no room for them, even?
The Problem: a Cluttered & Disorganized Home
Busy professionals often find that they have no time to organize their home. You've got work and family commitments, and limited time during the week and weekends. Your time is limited and precious. Too tired after a long work day, and with just the weekend to handle chores and maintenance, it's easier and more convenient to set papers and purchases down wherever you've got space, and the piles grow.
Clutter grows over time, and it becomes more of a challenge to deal with it if you don't have a storage or organizational system in place. You may make a goal or resolution of tackling that pile or focusing on a room, but it can be hard to know where to start. Sometimes it just feels like you're just moving things around and not actually organizing, let alone making those fundamental changes you want.
Even if you're retired, wouldn't you like to spend more time enjoying all the region has to offer, instead of spending time staring at the piles, stopping and starting?
Who has time or even wants to tackle a big project like organizing entire rooms in the home? The kitchen junk drawer fills up. Then the pantry shelves fill up with cans and storage containers - who can find the matching lids anyway? You lose track of what you've bought and when it expires. Papers and gadgets and tangled cords are an eyesore in shared living spaces like the family room or media room. You can't find the remote as there is no designated spot for these things. The bedroom dresser drawers fill up, and crumpled clothing is crammed into the closets. The closet shelves fill up with stuff you won't need until next season - but where to put it all? How can you find it when you need it? How can you get other family members to put things away - the clutter becomes unpleasant for all.
Clutter is more of a habit than a single event.
In the chaos, however, a professional organizer like Wendy sees a challenge. She envisions systems she can create, and spaces she can design around your family's needs. When Wendy steps in, the clutter is vanquished. And she'll organize the rooms in your home in a way that members of your household will be able to find things when they need them, and they'll be able to put things away where they belong.
Wendy is efficient and effective at organizing rooms in the home - shared spaces like the kitchen, pantry, bathrooms, family room, media room, den and
home office. She can even tackle private spaces like bedrooms should you request her help there, too. Messy closets and storage rooms or areas? Wendy will transform them fundamentally, so you have more space for what you want to keep and use, and can get rid of what you no longer need. When Wendy designs storage spaces that work for your home, you'll be able to focus on what matters most - your family and career - and you'll have more free time too.
The Solution: Space Refresh by Wendy will Professionally Organize and Declutter Your Okanagan Home
Here's what happens when you contact Space Refresh by Wendy and ask her to professionally organize your home:
Consulting on the Clutter
If you're looking for a professional home organizer in the Okanagan, Wendy can be reached by email, phone or message - whichever is most convenient for you. You can tell her about your family's lifestyle, needs and goals for the professional home organization. She'll set up a time that works for you, for a free in-home consultation.
When Wendy arrives for your in-home consultation, she will assess how best to organize the rooms around your needs. She'll tour rooms with your permission, ask questions, and discuss with you the overall and more specific goals for each room you want organized. As she walks through your home, Wendy will make note of problem areas and solutions for storage issues.
Having that outsider's viewpoint as well as her expertise and experience in organizing homes, she'll come up with strategies to implement, to meet your organizing goals. She will propose a plan, and with your agreement, she will be ready to get to work.
Organizing and Transforming your Space
Wendy will transform each room or storage space to organize and de-clutter. She'll work with items you already have in the home - bins, baskets etc. and your shelves, drawers and cupboards. If you'd like to pare down your possessions you no longer want or use, she'll help you decide what to keep and what to sell or donate.
Should you need light cleaning, or if it's agreed that more storage containers need to be purchased - Wendy can also provide those services.
The total professional home organizing process once underway may take a few hours, or a few days, depending on the number of rooms and scope of the project.
Once the work is complete, Wendy will walk through the storage solutions with you and your family. She'll give you tips, and demonstrate the simplicity of maintaining these functional systems. Going forward, your family can create new habits for staying organized.
Professionally Organizing Rooms in the Home
Organizing the Kitchen and Pantry:
The kitchen and dining area is the main room in the home where families tend to gather as well as share meals. It's where we entertain friends and family too.
All this frequent use and traffic means the storage and surface areas can get disorganized and cluttered, even as we try to keep it clean. Wendy will help you make the most of your kitchen and pantry space by suggesting storage solutions that work for your family's lifestyle.
Does your family enjoy cooking and eating meals together? Do you have more small appliances, pots and pans, plastic containers and utensils than space in your drawers and cupboards? Are your pantry shelves bursting with non-perishable food stores like cans and bulk ingredients for baking, but there's not much rhyme or reason to how it's all stored?
Wendy can organize it all in a way that makes sense for how you use items. That way, you can manage your pantry inventory and you can find what you need, when you need it - whether you're baking, cooking or snacking.
Organizing closets and storage spaces:
Closets can be a challenge. Wendy will design them to be functional spaces that work best for your needs and your family's lifestyle. With the right storage solutions, she'll ensure your closets will be easy to maintain and keep tidy.
If you've lived in your home for many years, and have multiple household members, it's pretty typical to accumulate more things than you have room for it all. Clutter builds up over time, and we all end up keeping things we no longer use. We hold on to clothes long after we've stopped wearing them or they've gone out of style. We keep electronics that are out of date, and obsolete cords for gadgets we no longer even have. Maybe you've got kids, and they've outgrown clothing and toys that you're still hanging on to, filling up precious limited storage space.
We can certainly get attached to things, or get anxiety around getting rid of them. It can help to have another's guidance and perspective however. Holding on to items you don't need or use anymore, to the point that the clutter causes distress in your life, is not healthy either. Wendy understands these feelings and she'll help you move past them. She'll help you decide what to keep - what is useful and sentimental.
When your closets and storage are organized, you'll have more room for the possessions you cherish. You'll have more space for stuff your family does use, for clothes that you actually wear and items which fit into your current lifestyle.
Professionally Organize and Declutter Your Home
See Wendy's past home organization projects:
- Kitchen Pantry: Before and After Professional Home Organization
Major Life Changes and the Home
We also offer Professional Home Organizing services for major life changes you may be facing or anticipating in the Central or North Okanagan, be it for your own home or that of a loved one.
Is your home being put on the market and you need to get it ready for showings? If you're a realtor in the Vernon, Lake Country or Kelowna area, we offer professional home staging too!
Are you moving and need help paring down all your stuff, boxing it up and then setting it up in a new home? Does moving to your new home involve downsizing - are the kids going to college or university & moving out? Are you staying put in your home, but would like to re-purpose rooms? Are you ready for the next stage in your life as a retiree?
Have you been tasked with cleaning out a loved one's home, such as a parent being moved into a care home? Are you facing some health challenges yourself? Our professional organization services page for
Major Life Changes
has more on how Wendy can help you get through this stressful and challenging time.