Spring is synonymous with renewal, making it the perfect time to rejuvenate and declutter your living spaces. Elevate your spring-cleaning project and breathe new life into your home by actively involving a professional organizer. This addition to your team not only ensures a spotless and organized home but also imparts valuable skills to maintain it that way.
Ann Martin and Emily Terry from Get Organized Park City, bring more than just tidying skills to the table; they possess a keen eye for maximizing space and creating systems that keep your home organized long after their expert touch is expended.
“People hire us because they don’t have time. They are working, they have kids, and if they need help unpacking, we can help them unpack efficiently,” explains Terry. “We provide a service that people can do on their own, but it’s often the last thing you want to do when you get home from work.”
Services offered by Get Organized Park City cover various organizing options tailored to the state of your home. From ensuring functionality to room-by-room transformations, and even assisting with decluttering during moves, their expertise extends beyond mere tidying.
“Park City has a lot of second homes and, for those people who only live here part of the year, they want someone to go in and organize their home for them so they can use it on vacation,” Terry continues.
“One of the challenges we face is getting items to fit into a space that clients have,” she says. “We can’t create more space for someone, but we can reconfigure spaces to use the space more efficiently. We can see things that other people may not recognize; when it’s your own stuff, you sometimes get stuck.”
Let the Organizing Begin
Once your organizational goals are clear, it’s time to embark on the journey.
Sort Like with Like: Everything is removed from the space and then grouped together. Grouping similar items together aids in identifying duplicates or unnecessary items, simplifying the decision-making process. “It’s easier to decide what to keep, toss, or donate,” Terry says.
Declutter: The most challenging phase involves deciding what to keep and what to let go. Professional organizers guide you through this emotional journey based on your lifestyle and needs. “We ask clients, ‘Do you want the items, or do you want the real estate’,” Martin adds.
Zones: Designate specific areas for different functions in your home including the kitchen, bathroom, and closets. “This makes things easy for people to find what they are looking for,” Martin continues. “This also helps kids be part of the process. They can see where things should go.”
Contain and Label: After sorting and creating zones, contain and label items for easy access. Containers can range from baskets and bins to shelves and drawers. Labels ensure that everyone knows where items belong.
Balancing Act: Sentimental Attachments and Decluttering
Professional organizers walk a tightrope between decluttering and emotional maelstroms, delicately detangling memories and nostalgia attached to objects. Each forgotten trinket or dusty photo album requires unwinding the emotional threads with empathy and sensitivity.
The challenge lies in honoring sentimental value while gently encouraging clients to let go of what no longer serves them, creating space for a life aligned with their present needs and future aspirations.
“Keepsakes and sentimental items are always a challenge,” Terry says. “People feel a lot of pressure or maybe it is hard for them to get rid of things. We may have better ideas on at least how to or where to store them instead of having them front and center if it’s not things you are going to use regularly.”
To perhaps make the separation easier Get Organized Park City makes a concerted effort to donate usable items removed from homes to local schools, sports teams, and donation centers, avoiding unnecessary landfill waste and creating new appreciative owners.
Identify Your Needs
Consider what services are most needed and how much time you and your family have for the project. Get Organized Park City offers a wide range of organizing options to supplement your own activites.
Functionality: Although everyone wants their home to look beautiful, they also want the space to be functional. Maintaining functionality after Get Organized Park City leaves is the ultimate objective.
Room by room: Nothing is too big or too small. Creating function and flow in any home is the goal.
Moving out: Martin and Terry will assist in decluttering so items that are no longer wanted or needed aren’t moved into the new space.
Moving into a new home: “It is typically such a stressful time for people that they tend to put things away as quickly as possible to get up and running,” Martin says. “We go in and find out if people cook or bake. We get everything set up in systems at the onset.”
Martin and Terry of Get Organized Park City have turned their passion for organization into a thriving business, aiming to bring order and calm to the lives of Park City residents. “We make it okay to get rid of things,” Martin concludes. “A lot of times people are holding on to things out of guilt.”
As you consider revamping your living spaces this spring, enlist the expertise of professional organizers to not only declutter your home, but also to embark on a journey toward a more organized and harmonious life.