Before – Laura Ray Organizing

The Situation
This family had a full plate running two successful businesses, while raising three active children and maintaining a healthy lifestyle. Providing healthy, organic homemade meals for the family was important, but the lack of organization in the two refrigerators and three freezers made finding the food difficult.  They also did not know what food inventory they had, and at times bought too much.

After – Laura Ray Organizing

The Solution
We removed the frozen food from the three freezers and separated the categories into bins. We also labeled the outside of the freezer with which category of food was stored inside.  Read more...

Before – Laura Ray Organizing

The Situation
This professional client recently moved into a magnificent high-rise condominium, and discovered the existing closets were not up to the task of storing her clothing and accessories adequately. Both her master and guest closets had a single rod and one shelf around the perimeter, which meant a lot of wasted space in closets with 10-foot ceilings.

After – Laura Ray Organizing

The Solution
We custom designed the master closet to maximize the use of all available wall space. Clothing was organized onto single and double hanging rods. Purses can be clearly seen, displayed within reach on higher shelves. Scarves, hats and workout gear were sorted into matching labeled baskets.  Read more...

Before – Laura Ray Organizing

The Situation 

This family’s large basement store-room had become a catchall for camping gear, entertaining items, unopened boxes from previous moves, inherited art work, mementos, photos, toys, crafts, and gift wrap.

       The family was  frustrated and overwhelmed, because they wanted access to many of these items. They also wanted to solve the mystery of what was in the unopened boxes.

 

After – Laura Ray Organizing

 

The Solution

We attacked the clutter with a divide and conquer strategy. Using three other basement rooms — since we couldn’t move in the cluttered room — we brought out items and divided everything into the categories mentioned above.

       Once the items were sorted, we conquered each category and pulled out volumes of items to donate, sell or toss.

       When every category was sorted, Laura created a storage plan for the room consisting of heavy duty metal shelving. Every category had a home and each shelf unit was labeled. One side of the room (not pictured) was just for crafting and gift wrap.

       The family was happy to know that the unopened boxes were children’s toys and books long outgrown. Most of it went to a foster care charity. They are also thrilled to now be able to find anything in their basement in 15 seconds or less!

The Situation
The client moved and now it was time to set up her beautiful new closet.

The Solution
Laura created a plan to make the clothes, accessories and shoes easy to access, and still have clearly defined categories: casual, business, sportswear and formal.

The plan was based on the volume of each clothing category. The clothing and shoes were grouped by type, style, and then color. The purses were grouped by size, color and frequency of use.

In addition, making everything easy to access meant setting the correct heights for all movable rods and shelves.  Read more...

After – Laura Ray Organizing

The Situation
Downsizing has many advantages, but can also pose a problem when it comes to storage. This client had limited storage in her town home, so she was unable to find a solution for bulk supplies, utility items and larger things, such as entertaining coolers and trays, and a cat carrier.

The Solution
We grouped like items into zones on sturdy mobile shelving to enable the home owner to move them easily for cleaning. Smaller items were stored in clear plastic boxes within their zone. This solution will help with the rotation of stock, too.  Read more...

Laura Ray with Karen Graham on Fox 5’s Good Day Atlanta

Clear the clutter! Did you know clutter is just postponed decisions? If you have a space full of decisions and need help, don’t miss this video clip below. Of course, you can contact me for help, too!

My 4-minute interview with Karen Graham on how to start Clearing the clutter in your home ran live on Fox 5’s Good Day Atlanta in 2016.

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