Services

Residential Organizing
Home Staging
Downsizing
Ageing in Place Services
Relocation Services
Speaking and Workshops

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

63% of buyers are willing to pay more money for a house that is move-in ready.
– 2006 Maritz Research Study