01.13.10

Organizing Closets

Posted in Organizing Bedroom & Closet at 2:25 am by Administrator

Today January 11th I spent 6 hours at a clients house and organized 3 of her closets.  She just moved and everything was just hung up in the closets when she move and nothing was organized.  I decided to make 1 closet with her expensive dress clothes, 2nd closet casual clothes and the 3rd closet summer clothes.

I categorized each kind of clothing such as slacks, sweaters, tops, etc. and then by colors from black to white and all the other colors in between.  She did not realize she had 15 pairs of black dress slacks and 5 pairs of black casual pants.  She needs to do some donating and it will be easy seeing how many she has of each color.  We did not get a chance to donate since she was’nt home most of the day and I worked on my own.

When taking your clothes out of the closet, put the hanger in the hamper so when you wash it you can hang it up.  Hangers take up a lot of room in the closet, so take them down  when wearing the outfit .

01.10.10

Organizing a Bedroom and Closet

Posted in Organizing Bedroom & Closet at 10:54 pm by Administrator

January 7th another day in a Professional Organizers life organizing a clients bedroom with clutter in the closet, on top of the dressers and on the floor.  First we went through the closet and took out all the donates and summer clothes.  Put the donates in a bag and summer clothes in another closet.  I then put all the same categories together like pants, blouses, tops, dresses and suit jackets.  Client bought new hangers and switched over to the new ones.

Took a trip to Target and bought some plastic bins and colorful open baskets to store her knitting.  Went though each bag on the floor and put all the tioletries in a basket and all the other items in the room it was suppose to go in.  The client wanted homework to organize some of the things we found on the floor and organize in bins. 

Her mother passes away less than 1 year ago and she had photos, clothing and other memeobolia and we bought a nice bin to store them in.  Her bedroom was in order and clutter free when I left.  She will have sweet dreams because there will not be any clutter to wake up to.

Leaving her apartment, I had a flat tire and had to call a tow truck to fix the tire.  All in a days work!