Your Tidy Space

07/02/2025

If you’re a highly organised person who doesn’t struggle at all with parting with belongings, it can be tricky to get your head around the idea that someone else may find it difficult to maintain calm order in their home.

But for various reasons, sometimes only for a season, the balance can be tipped from finding it tricky, to needing a helping hand, and that’s where I come in! I’m here if you need me and I absolutely love helping people through from varying degrees of chaos to calm.

28/01/2025

People often say to me ‘I bet your house is incredibly tidy’. For the majority of the time, it is reasonably tidy, but it’s also a lived in, non-perfect, relaxing family home. With kids around and busy lives, it’s just not realistic to expect a home to be pristine at all times.

However, I would say that my home is easy to tidy, because (almost) everything has an assigned storage space, and that’s the key. Once you’ve decluttered and created a system for where to store things, you can put them away without having to make any decisions. Reducing these micro-decisions adds up and has a big positive impact on our mental wellbeing 😌

12/01/2025

I love a good Kallax playroom sort out! Here’s how we sorted this space:

⭐️ Took everything out
⭐️ Sorted into categories as we went
⭐️ Set aside the items no longer suitable for my client’s kids ready to donate to charity
⭐️ Binned/recycled any which weren’t wanted but weren’t donation-worthy
⭐️ Put things back in a logical way, keeping categories together as best we could so that things can be easily found and enjoyed 🤩

When you group like with like, it’s so much easier to see exactly what you have and spot duplicates. Simple but essential step!

30/10/2024

Very excited that my partnership with Curchods is now live! They’re offering 5 hours of decluttering and organising with me to any new sales instructions they receive. I think it’s fantastic that Curchods are offering this added benefit, making the moving process a little bit easier for their clients. Let’s go! 💪 🏡 🤝

16/10/2024

Great time to have a sort through your coats and donate to a good cause!

Do you have a winter coat you could donate for Farnham Library’s Coats for All rack? Coats in good condition for all ages and sizes are appreciated.

Please drop in on a donation day:
🧥 Saturday 9th November, 9.30am-4pm
🧥 Tuesday 19th November, 9.30am-6.30pm

These winter coats will then become available for people who need them and who can just help themselves to a coat without having to ask.

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14/10/2024

🫸With all items of clutter, there’s a barrier which is causing it. We do so many things on autopilot, and you may not have even consciously acknowledged the reason you’re not addressing it. Really stopping and thinking about it is the first step to actually tackling it longer term. Addressing a small number of items at a time (even one is better than none!) will reduce the risk of becoming overwhelmed. Progress over perfection! 💪✅

01/10/2024

Are you wondering whether to pop your unwanted clothes and accessories on online selling sites like Vinted or eBay? Answer my little flow chart quiz and see if that’s the most suitable option for you.

I felt I was channelling my 90s teen girl magazine quizzes when putting this together! 💁🏼‍♀️ 💗❓

Has it made you think twice about whether or not to sell your unwanted bits and bobs? Let me know in the comments 👇

19/09/2024

A little post about the approach I take when working with clients (it can seem like a mysterious process if you’ve not had the help of an organiser before!). Three elements which are always central to how I work:

⭐️ Realistic & Maintanable: I believe that any systems we set up together in your home should be ones which you can realistically keep up long after our sessions together end. So any suggestions I make will be based on your individual set up and lifestyle.

⭐️ Judgement - free: I can completely understand that it’s a very personal thing to ask a stranger to come into your home and help go through your belongings with you. But I can assure you I won’t judge the state of your home. I’m here to help, not judge!

⭐️ Client-centred: Every client situation is unique and so there’s no one-size-fits-all approach. I’ll tailor how we work based on your goals, budget, and feelings about the process.

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12/09/2024

Practicing what I preach and had a clothing clear out! The changing season spurred me on and some things I was hanging onto really aren’t ‘me’ any more! I love a good wardrobe declutter 🤩

18/07/2024

School’s out for summer! Before you fully embrace the later starts (here’s hoping!) and lack of homework, take a few minutes to declutter these bits and bobs:

😎 Uniform: if it’s in a bad state, or they’ve outgrown it, it’s time for it go. Items with life left can be passed on to be used by others, but if not then they could go to fabric recycling.
😎 School Work: Kids bring home A LOT of paperwork at the end of term. Have a look through it with them and only keep the pieces which they’re especially proud of or have strongest memories of creating.
😎 Lunch boxes and drinks bottles: These can get pretty grim after a while. If they’ve reached the point where they’re flaking or cracked, then it’s time for them to be replaced.

Let’s hope for some sunshine! ☀️

18/07/2024

School’s out for summer! Before you fully embrace the later starts (here’s hoping!) and lack of homework, take a few minutes to declutter these bits and bobs:

😎 Uniform: if it’s in a bad state, or they’ve outgrown it, it’s time for it go. Items with life left can be passed on to be used by others, but if not then they could go to fabric recycling.
😎 School Work: Kids bring home A LOT of paperwork at the end of term. Have a look through it with them and only keep the pieces which they’re especially proud of or have strongest memories of creating.
😎 Lunch boxes and drinks bottles: These can get pretty grim after a while. If they’ve reached the point where they’re flaking or cracked, then it’s time for them to be replaced.

Fingers crossed for some sunshine! ☀️

18/07/2024

It’s that time of year again so thought I’d share this post for those who have kids bringing home school work this week. If the box gets too full, take a look back at previous years (nursery/reception sections are often very full and could be edited) to check if it all needs to be kept. Restricting it to one box will help focus you and stop it from getting out of control 👍

05/06/2024

Couple of before and after pics from a recent client. She had gone from living on her own in a flat to moving to a room in a shared house, so had a lot of excess to try to edit or store. A satisfying job indeed!

23/04/2024

📢 had a few email issues over the last few days, so if you’ve emailed [email protected], it’s highly likely I won’t have received it 🤦🏼‍♀️😢 Problem seems to be sorted now, so please send again and I’ll get back to you asap! Thank you ☺️

08/12/2023

Apologies for lack of posting on here, I’ve been busy busy helping lots of clients get their homes ready for Christmas!

Here’s a garage before and after a couple of sessions recently. I love my job! 🤩

17/11/2023

Black Friday can be very exciting if you know there’s something you want and you’ve been waiting for it to be on some kind of special offer. But it can also be a money pit if you’re not careful! Here’s some handy tips for keeping on track over the tempting Black Friday.

11/11/2023

We recently had our orangey pine floor sanded and refinished and I am totally amazed at the result. Trouble is, it has now made me want to continue the improvements and update some of the others things I’d stopped seeing for a while.

Which got me thinking that this is often a side effect of going through a decluttering and organising project. When you really look at what you have and edit what you no longer want or need, you start to see your home through fresh eyes again. And when you feel your home is once again a place you love and are proud of, you’ll be much more likely to look after it and keep clutter at bay (promise!).