When to Hire a Professional Organizer

Life is busy and maintaining an organized space can feel like an uphill battle. Whether due to a lack of time, a significant life change, or simply an overwhelming accumulation of clutter, it’s easy to feel like you just don’t know where to start. You don’t have to muscle through it on your own. Bringing in a Certified Professional Organizer® can save your sanity and be a game-changer.

Here’s when you need to call in the experts.

Chaos & Clutter
What’s bugging you? Is it your jumbled kitchen drawers, overstuffed closets and bureaus, messy entryway, chaotic playroom, or piled-up home office?

​ We’ll help you:

• Figure out and fix what’s not working: We can diagnose why your current space isn’t serving you well and come up with solutions that’ll make it work.
• Pare down and eliminate excess: An organizer will systematically go through everything in the space with you, guiding you to decide what stays and what goes. We even load up our cars with your donations so you can cross that errand off your to-do list!
• Figure out flow: We’ll ask about your habits and preferences so we can understand how you want to use your space. Then we customize the layout for streamlined ease.

Life Changes
Major life transitions like marriage, divorce, graduations, or the birth of a child can drastically alter your space needs. We’ll help you:

• Adapt your space: Whether it's making room for a new family member or reconfiguring for a single lifestyle, organizers can make your space work.
• Maximize space: We know how to make the most out of limited space.
• Help with emotional attachments: Deciding what to keep can be tough. Empathizing with your situation, professional organizers are adept at helping you discover what you value most and make decisions consistent with those values.

Your Scary Room
Do you have a space that scares you just to enter? It might be your garage, attic, basement, or your spare room. When you don’t know where to put something, you just toss it in here and hope for the best. Maybe you can’t even see much of the floor anymore! With these spaces, it’s hard to know where to start. We’ll help you:

• Provide a plan of attack: We can look at a space, assess what’s in it, plan the phases of what needs to be done, and determine the best way to tackle the organizing project.
• Provide an unbiased and nonjudgemental assessment: We know that organizing isn’t a character flaw and everyone needs help sometimes. We see your space with fresh eyes, coming up with creative solutions to your situation.
• Implement systems: When part of your problem is a lack of appropriate storage, we can identify storage solutions and implement systems to prevent things from piling up again in the future.

Preparing to Move
Moving can be one of the most stressful life events. A professional organizer can transform this ordeal into a manageable process. We’ll help you:

• Prepare your timeline: set goals for what you need to accomplish in order to be ready for moving day.
• Sort through possessions: Decide what to keep, donate, sell, or throw away, reducing the volume of items you need to move.
• Plan your new space: Using floor plans or photos, a professional organizer can map your current home layout onto your new one, ensuring that everything you bring will fit perfectly into the new home.
• Organize the packing process: While it’s best to leave the packing to the movers (so your stuff is insured end to end), an organizer can direct the process so that everything ends up in the right place, making unpacking logical and quick.

Moving In and Unpacking
After planning a move, packing, and traveling, you’re going to be exhausted, both mentally and physically. A team of professional organizers can dismantle your mountains of boxes in hours instead of months, giving you a soft landing into your new home. We’ll help you:

• Unpack systematically: By unpacking room by room, or by priority, organizers ensure your home becomes livable as quickly as possible.
• Set up your space: Organizers instinctively understand how to layout spaces and arrange possessions for optimal functionality and flow.
• Organize for daily life: From setting up your kitchen to organizing closets, we’ll tailor the space to your lifestyle.

Hiring a professional organizer isn't just about tidying up; it's about enhancing your quality of life. We bring expertise, objectivity, and systems to manage your stuff and your space, making your daily life more enjoyable and less chaotic.

Whether you're adjusting to life changes, moving, or dealing with day-to-day clutter, partnering with a Certified Professional Organizer will help you cut through the clutter and move past the overwhelm, creating customized solutions that you’d never have thought possible.

As my client Hinda said:
"Kate Bosch Organizing was the best gift I ever gave myself!"