Before – Laura Ray Organizing

After – Laura Ray Organizing

Client:  Saleswoman for a service company in Georgia.

Here’s the situation: Like many people, the client had converted a room of her home into an office. In this case, it was the dining room, which had no storage. Then, the client’s aging mother needed to move in for a few months and the only place to put a bed on the first floor was the home office. 

Solving the problem:

• We purged a lot. There were outdated sales and seminar materials. There were products from a former business, and household items that just landed in the space. She needed to make decisions about what items to purge.
• The filing cabinet was not used for filing, so we emptied it and found homes for what she was keeping. (Tip: It’s more efficient to use furniture the way it was meant to be used.) She didn’t like the old metal filing cabinet, and bought a new one that looked more like furniture, so it was functional and beautiful.
• We selected shelving for storage to get things off the desktop and floor, and better use the vertical space in the room.
• The client chose colorful boxes and bins to house everything in the office, and we labeled everything.
• We created floor space for the bed by consolidating. We were able to remove one of two desks in the room.
• During the process, the client went a step further and painted the room and added fresh window treatments to make the room nice for her mother.

Quotable quote: “Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.” –William Morris, English designer from the 1800s