In case you ever found yourself wondering why it helps to hire a professional organizer, here’s a case study to help answer your question. Now, I will say…I can rattle off countless reasons why hiring someone like me is a huge benefit. For today, let’s just focus on this closet as an example in how we can save you time, money….AND SPACE!
We’ve been working for this family for one full year. Mom first reached out to us for assistance with packing back in March 2022. We slowly made our way from the kitchen to the kids’ bedrooms to the playroom to the garage and mudroom and so on. What I didn’t know in the process of us working together is that her interior designer had designed an Elfa closet for her primary bedroom. This is NOT a ding against the designer, don’t get me wrong…she did a great job with what she knew. But there’s something about the way an organizer sees space and function that can be totally different.
BEFORE
My client informed me that the closet would have to be installed by a certain date. I asked if we could help organize it. After organizing it, Mom reached out to me again to discuss her concerns. I saw these potenially popping up later, but it’s always a good rule to let you live with the space BEFORE making costly edits.
A few of the pain points were that the hanging clothes were draping into the drawers beneath…
She had to move her clothes out of the way every time she opened one of the top drawers. It was annoying and caused some of her clothing wrinkles.
Another pain point were these two small drawers on the far right…
The closet door swings in, if you look carefully. She had to go into the closet and open the drawers by closing the door.
She is a collector of jewelry and loves to wear it. These small drawers are her collections. I suggested that she move the small drawers to the left wall and add some more to make a jewelry section. These shelves weren’t being used very well, so it was sensible to plan space in this way. She also had additional jewelry boxes you see on the shelves that had nowhere to go…
When consulting with her on these pain points, I also figured out she wasn’t planning to use the floor space under the drawers. To loosen the clothes and do other edits, I believed we could easily lower that wall’s system. BUT big issue…the hanging standards were five…
Additional reading: simplyorganized.me