Client #2: Live Oak, FL

The last few months have been a bit busy with summer here. So many friends have been needing extra help with big events in their lives (moving, weddings, having babies, etc.). However, I have managed to get a few pictures together from a client - we will call her Client #2 - to show you some current work of Orderly Manners.

Client #2 has a few hours, one day a week, to work on organizing her home. She and I took four separate days, totally about 10 hours to complete these projects over a couple of months. While we do have a few spaces not pictured, because I couldn't control my urge to organize long enough to get those must have before pictures. (You know how moving one object, just leads to another object being moved, and before you know it everything is perfect, but there aren't any wow pictures to show for it.  I hate it when that happens.) We also, have at least one more closet to organize, before this house is completed. I will be posting those pictures, as soon as we get back together.

This house is also a good example of organizing on a budget. We did not purchase anything new to get these projects completed. When we were in need of something for a room, we would "go shopping" in their house to find it elsewhere. I really enjoy looking around homes to find objects to repurpose, its fun and is easy on family budgets. More than that, when we were in the middle of a project and saw something that we absolutely needed, especially working within this client's time restricted schedule, I left the client with homework. One of her assignments was to get a few baskets for under her bathroom cabinet. We didn't have them on hand when these pictures were taken, but since then the baskets have been purchased and the items placed in them. 

Pictured in this post is Client #2's Daughter's Room, their Master Bathroom, and a Hall Closet that we have since labeled the electronics/luggage closet.

Daughter's Room: We decluttered quite a bit and organized many smaller things that most little girls have these days, but unfortunately can't be seen in the pictures: Nail Polishes, Sand Art, Webkinz, Polly Pockets, Littlest Pet Shop Pets & Accessories, Jewelry, Hair Accessories, and all the items you see below. This little girl LOVES stuffed animals. She was in school when we worked on her bedroom, so we couldn't declutter her space without her final word. There is a blue tub and storage box in the pictures near her dresser. They were filled with part of her stuffed animal collection. Her Orderly Manners homework was to decide which plush friends she was keeping and which she was going to bless others with. I've heard from her mom that they both went through her collection once more and have decided to bless others with a lot more than her homework required. I'm so proud of this little girl. 

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Master Bathroom: We made the place more functional for this couple. While keeping in mind their already set morning/evening routines, we tried not to move too much around. We did organize every drawer and cabinet (sifting through old products that weren't being loved anylonger), cleaned up the counter space, so there wasn't so much going on,  and were able to move their coffeemaker and such things out to their master sitting area for a coffee bar to allow morning and evening conversations between the two.

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After - Coffee Station Now in Master Sitting Area in Bedroom

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Hall Closet for Electronics & Luggage: This was a closet that I wanted to organize. We did it in about an hour. This closet is now where the family goes to charge and store electronic things, like portable DVD players, cameras, camcorders, etc. They sort of used this closet for this purpose before, along with housing other things that weren't being used, so we cleaned it up to give this closet purpose and easier access. The closet is also being used to store luggage and bags. The daughter stores her daily school things in here, too, since its right across from her bedroom and on the way out the door.  Our idea for the future of this closet is to get some shelving put up for the storage bins and the luggage, but for a one hour project, it now functions and looks a whole lot better.

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