Michelle Powell
Do you Pinterest, yet?
In the event that you are not familiar, Pinterest (www.pinterest.com) is an addictive site for those visual people who love style of any kind. It is a site that streams ideas, crafts, fashion, travel, motivational sayings and more. The great thing is that it allows you to pin and save anything you [...]
Moving Sale, Beautiful Furniture
One of my favorite client families is selling their Park City home and moving to Colorado by April 1st. They have a beautiful home and have decided to part with several very lovely, excellent-quality pieces of furniture. If you are in the market for a Down filled reading [...]
Mid Winter Clutter Blues
Pick up most any women’s magazine right now and the theme is redecorate, add color and organize. This is the time of year when we all have been indoors for months and the house is looking a bit stressed. Salt and dirt from the roads has covered [...]
6 Large Black Hefty Garbage Bags
This is the average number of bags of clothing that are removed from a Park City Master Closet. 90% of the items are donated locally, the other 10% is consigned locally. Do you have clothing, shoes, belts and bags that you no longer wear? If so, consider making a donation to one of the [...]
Successful Moving Sale
This June, we organized our first Moving Sale for a client. In order to merge households with a fiance, the owner wanted to sell most of her existing housewares. Spruce listed the larger pieces of furniture for sale on KSL.com (including this bed and mattress that sold for over $1700) and then held a moving sale. The [...]
Give it away, give it away, give it away now
This summer, I had the chance to visit Telluride, Colorado. While checking out the town, we came across a 20 year old amazing thing known locally as the Freebox. It is simply a shelving system created right in the center of downtown where people can exchange the treasures that they no longer love. While I [...]
3 Rules for Keeping Your Closet Beautiful
Now that your wardrobe is down to the essentials and staged beautifully so that you can see all of your favorite elements, adopt these 3 strategies for maintaining gorgeous: Schedule maintenane sessions and put them onto your calendar at least twice a year. At this time, pull out evey garment that you have not worn [...]
Does your clothes closet need a makeover?
As with all great organizing projects, you need to evaluate what you have before you start shopping for products to improve your storage space. So, if your closet rods are jammed so that they sag, you can’t see the floor for shoes and luggage and you own more than 30 handbags, it may be time [...]
Tackling your garage
Pull everything off of the shelves and out of the corners. Sort items into categories. (Sports, tools, decorations, files, bulk food etc.) Eliminate what you no longer need and set it aside for trash, sale, recycle or donation. Assign a home for each of your categories. Think in terms of zones. Containerize. Do you need [...]
Get Organized, Get Gorgeous!
When I write about getting organized, I usually point out the benefits: better health, less stress, simplification and creating space for new things. Lets be truthful. What we really want is for our homes and offices to look gorgeous! I think that moving into our 5th month of snow cover is only extra incentive [...]