Organizing Lives - "Out of clutter find simplicity." Einstein

Residential Organizing

At a Glance’ Consultation - a half an hour consultation, Organizing Lives will assess your needs and provide you with a quote of the necessary services and the estimated number of hours needed to complete them. 'At a Glance Consultation' is perfect if you are interested in our services and wish to have an idea of the processes involved before hiring our hands-on organizing team. There is no charge for this consultation

Detailed Consultation - A one to two hour meeting to assess your organizational needs, analyze your current situation, view your space, and develop a plan ~ perfect for the client who may decide to tackle the job on his/her own, but doesn’t have the tools to get started. Organizing Lives will assess your situation, diagnose the challenges, and create a plan of action with regards to recommendations on lifestyle changes, products to use, and simple solutions to your organizing dilemmas. A fee will be charged for this extensive consultation.

Residential Organizing Services - Designed to suit your individual needs; whether it’s organizing your entire home or de-cluttering a particular space, we guarantee our service will bring harmony into your daily life! Organizing Lives works with you to assist in the challenging task of de-cluttering and re-designing your closets, basement, garage, home office, bedrooms, kitchen….you name it, we can organize it! Organizing Lives works one-on-one with our clients, teaching them the basics of organization, how to create more useable, functional space, leaving you with the skills to continue the process on a daily basis.

Maintenance Plan Services

After your home or office is organized, you will then have the opportunity to take advantage of our maintenance plan. Occasionally a client may slip back into some of their old habits. A monthly or bi-monthly visit from Organizing Lives may be all you will need for support and encouragement. Shorter sessions of de-cluttering and tidying can instantly revive your space, and reduce your stress while reviewing the rules of organizing.

Home Staging Services

Organizing Lives holds the Certified Canadian Staging Professional Designation, the highest level of Staging Training in Canada today. Organizing Lives stages properties with an understanding of the Real Estate industry, the psychology of buyers, target marketing, and lifestyle living techniques. We use all of these talents with our innate gift to evaluate and enhance a property’s appeal to buyers ~ inside and out.

Working with the premise that we don’t sell our home the same way we live in it, Organizing Lives will breathe new life into your home prior to listing it for sale. Preparing a house for sale through cost-effective and non-evasive methods to enhance your home’s marketability, staging is far from a ‘trend’. Increasingly becoming a part of the home-selling process, staging is an investment for the homeowner and the real estate agent to minimize listing time and maximize selling price. Using lifestyle-selling techniques to enhance the home’s best features, Organizing Lives works with proven methods including organizing, purging, de-cluttering, depersonalizing your home, creating the illusion of space and enhancing curb appeal.

Downsizing

Organizing Lives holds the Certified Relocation and Transition Specialist Designation, representing advanced training promoting professional standards of excellence within the Senior Move Industry.

At Organizing Lives we understand that downsizing to a new home is an emotionally and physically demanding process, even under the very best of circumstances.

Do you feel uncomfortable when placed in the position of having to depend on your adult children, who have busy families and demanding careers? Perhaps they live miles away, unable to provide the much needed support. And although making the decision to move is often the first step, it is often not the hardest decision. Typically the new residence will be far smaller; therefore deciding what to take with you into the next phase of your life is a monumental decision. Organizing Lives will assist you with the difficult decisions and time-consuming tasks involved in downsizing and moving.

Organizing Lives has developed a wide range of specialized services to assist you as you face this life transition. This menu of services that can be tailored to your unique situation include:

Meeting with you in your home and making a plan of how we will go through the process of downsizing together.
Sort and organize your belongings to assist you in deciding what to keep, what to give family/friends, what and how to sell, what and how to donate and what should be discarded or recycled.
Arrange for appraisal, sale, or disposal of the balance of your personal belongings.
Pack and ship items that have been promised to family and friends
Preparation of a floor plan for placement of your belongings and furniture in your new home; determine what will fit before it’s moved.
Assist in finding a real-estate agent to suit your needs
Prepare your home for sale in the real estate market by co-coordinating a team of trade professionals to enhance your home’s appearance, ensuring that you minimize real estate listing time and maximize your selling price.
Manage the move to your new home.
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Ageing In Place

To Age in Place means the capacity for any individual to safely, independently, and comfortably live in their own home. Does your home suit this lifestyle?

Do you have unopened boxes in storage from your last move over twenty years ago?
Are you storing your adult children’s belongings?
Are you hanging on to that old toaster, outdated documents and now retired career-clothing ‘just in case’?
Has your accessibility become a safety issue due to the clutter building up in your home?
Has the once easy-to-navigate layout of your home become an obstacle course due to your limited mobility?

Organizing Lives can help you prepare to live an independent lifestyle that doesn’t require you changing your address. Our primary goal as we support Ageing in Place is to maximize the quality of life for seniors. Our services include:

Meeting with you in your home and together making a plan of how we will go through the process of organizing your home, enabling you to age in place safely and independently.
Sort and organize your belongings to assist you in deciding what to keep, what to give to family/friends, what to sell, what and how to donate and what should be discarded or recycled.
Once you’re organized, we can help you sell, send to charity, get appraised, or pack those items you no longer want.
Preparation and implementation of a floor plan for furniture placement, creating flow and plenty of room to maneuver.
Ongoing support for your situation.
Residential housecleaning.

Relocation Services

There is something spiritually uplifting about moving; a new home is a new beginning and packing up its’ contents becomes a purifying ritual, a time to decide what you will take with you and what you will leave behind. However, more often than not, moving can also be an extremely stressful experience, both emotionally and physically.

Multi-tasking to finalize the details of your new home, hours of exhausting packing… many of us just do not have the time or inclination necessary to make a smooth stress-free transition.

Organizing Lives can take the stress out of your relocation and save you time. Whether it is a move across town or across the country, Organizing Lives can simplify your move, customized to your needs.

After an initial consultation, Organizing Lives would support and guide you through the relocation process by offering any or all of the following services:

Assist in sorting, organizing and purging the contents of your home
Research, interview and hire a moving company on your behalf
Prepare your home for sale in the real estate market with minimum market time and maximum selling price
Organize and advertise a garage or content sale on your behalf
Pack the contents of your home, through the implementation of Organizing Lives’ SmartPack system.
Create a floor plan of your new home and assist in the placement of furniture and decorative accents.
Unpack and organize your new environment
Manage your relocation on moving day

Estate Support Services

At Organizing Lives we respect that this is a sensitive and emotional time for you and your family. The loss of a loved one comes with mixed emotions and often overwhelming tasks that must be dealt with.

Sandra Wright and Kim Fleming, owners of Organizing Lives, both experienced the loss of their parents over the past five years. Dealing with emotional loss, logistical challenges and time constraints, Sandra and Kim felt as though there was nowhere to turn for the much-needed assistance of what to do with over forty years of possessions and memories. With that in mind, Organizing Lives saw the need to support estate disposition, helping bereaved families and executors throughout this transition.

After an initial consultation, Organizing Lives would support you with any or all of the following services:

Sort and organize the deceased person’s personal property
Arrange for an appraisal of antiques or valuable items
Organize either a garage or an estate sale, based on the value and volume of the possessions, on your behalf
Donate unwanted items to a charitable organization
Pack up items that have been promised to family or friends
Prepare the deceased person’s home for sale with minimum market time and maximum selling price

When you call Organizing Lives you can rest assured that every aspect of our work would be handled with compassion, caring, dignity and professionalism.

Speaking and Workshops

Organizing Lives is available to speak to your group, company or organization on a variety of topics. Topics are customized for each group and can be tailored to fit your time schedule. Email us your request now!

Information packed workshops are currently available for the following subjects:

Downsizing to Retirement Living
Time Management Skills for Everyday Family Living
Simplify Your Relocation
Home Staging 101 – Maximize Your Selling Price, Minimize Your Listing Time
Simplify the Holidays
Organizing Made Easy – Room by Room

Call or email us today to book or get more information on workshops.

Residential Cleaning

Organizing Lives prides ourselves on going above and beyond what other cleaning services offer to provide you with a home that sparkles from ceiling to floor, kitchen to bathroom. Striving to satisfy you with each and every clean, Organizing Lives cleaning team has an eye for detail and a commitment to maintain our mantra of customer service excellence.

Organizing Lives provides an initial free in-home consultation to determine your specific needs and to develop a cleaning plan that is tailored for you and your home. Together, we’ll determine how best we can meet your needs and expectations.

Our flexible scheduling includes service weekly, bi-weekly, monthly or ‘any time you need us’. Whether it’s a whole-home weekly cleaning, a one-time comprehensive spring cleaning or a mini-cleaning of those areas you’d rather not clean yourself (e.g. stove, fridge), our customized approach means that Organizing Lives always has a cleaning plan that’s right for you.

Although we customize the cleaning of your home, Organizing Lives performs the following tasks every time we clean:

Dust all baseboards, furniture, shelves, picture frames, doors, lamps, ceiling fans, and all woodwork.
Remove cobwebs; wash all floors, vacuum carpeting, and furniture.
In the kitchen and bathrooms, we also clean and sanitize all fixtures, sinks, tubs, showers, toilets, and the outside of all appliances. We also clean and polish all mirrors and chrome.

Organizing Lives strives to satisfy you with each and every cleaning, and employs quality control measures to achieve this. If, however, you are ever not completely satisfied with our work, simply let us know within 24 hours and we’ll return to make it right ~ at no additional charge.

"Home Staging speeds up sales in a sluggish real estate market
and can bump up prices from 2% to 10% in a modest market"
Wall St. Journal 2004