Before and After: Part 2: Age in Place, The Garage Mini-Makeover for Father’s Day… Going Vertical with Monkey Bar Storage!
If you read Part 1, you’ll know that this is about an “age in place” upgrade for garage storage for my parents… a great Father’s Day gift that Handy Boy and I helped put in place for my folks this month. Eliminating the attic as storage, and...
Before and After: Part 1: Age in Place, The Garage Mini-Makeover for Father’s Day
Aging in Place, where you continue to modify your own space to make it still work for you as mobility and independence start to decrease, is something that needs to be revisited regularly; what worked 6 months ago just fine may not be as good any more. It’s a...![Before and After: Kitchen Edition [a.k.a. There’s my counter space!]](https://www.clevergirlorganizing.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/wide-before-565x423.jpg)
Before and After: Kitchen Edition [a.k.a. There’s my counter space!]
I recently worked with a client on a one-afternoon project to completely organize and transform her kitchen. What she didn’t know is that we’d also manage to transform her LIFE in that same time frame. This client had one major goal: She wants to cook...
Before and After: Home Office and Crafting Room
My latest client reached out for help, and we set up an appointment to meet a few days later. In between that time, her scope changed, tenfold. Her first need (which hadn’t changed) was that, because the global corporation she works for, out of her home,...
Before and After: Major Garage Clean-out!
I hadn’t posted a “Before and After” in a while, so I thought I’d break up our month of smaller tasks by showing off a BIG one that I just tackled. I recently worked on a large garage organizing project with my friend, Rebecca Stapler. She and...
Before and After: Storage Room / Cedar Closet
Great project this weekend with a client to attack the home’s storage room/cedar closet. Her family uses this space, about 80 square feet, as a spot to store occasional-use items, holiday decorations, some clothing, and some items from the clients’...
Storing T-shirts a New Way… File Them Away!
You know how T-shirt drawers are. They’re not doing your t-shirt collection any favors. You only wear the stuff on the top of the pile. You rarely hunt for other things in your collection. You forget what you own, and have lost sight of a few shirts along the...
Before and After: Bedroom Walk-in Closet
I got to work on a GREAT space with a client this week. She and her husband share a walk-in closet, that has some tall built-in closet and shelving space, but the client called it “a disaster”. She really has a closet that so many of us would die for,...
Before and After: Home Office in a Closet, revisited
One project I was excited to work on this summer was helping a woman with her home office in a closet. Having a home office in a closet can be a GREAT use of space! She’d set it up for herself some time ago, but it really wasn’t working for her any more....
Before and After: Basement Sink and Storage Area
When we bought our house two years ago, we were thrilled to finally have a basement! Ours is a pretty decent size, and, though it is “unfinished”, it’s got some potential to be better, for sure. Cement floor, cinderblock walls, decent height...
Before and After: Basement Storage
Can you really make a dent in a troubling space in one day? In just 6 hours? This week, that’s just what a client and I tried to find out. We tackled the only significant storage space she has in her home: a back corner of her finished basement....Profile
Kathy Vines
Certified Professional Organizer® &
Productivity Consultant
Based in Melrose, MA.
Clever Girl Organizing® works with clients in the homes or office, to help transform their space and systems, in order to minimize stress and maximize efficiency, productivity, and serenity!
