Triage From Home » organization http://www.triagefromhome.com Sat, 03 Jul 2010 20:58:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Hiring an Organizer http://www.triagefromhome.com/2009/04/hiring-an-organizer/ http://www.triagefromhome.com/2009/04/hiring-an-organizer/#comments Fri, 10 Apr 2009 19:36:16 +0000 Helen http://www.triagefromhome.com/?p=893 practically_daughters_logo2

Tomorrow morning my family and I are meeting with a professional organizer. Susan (or Heather)  from Good Riddance is coming to meet us for a consultation about our Mom’s needs related to the big move. Moving day is in 3 weeks, so time is getting short. This company has a program they call ‘Practically Daughters’ which does exactly the kind of thing we need in our situation. They assist seniors with downsizing and making decisions about what to keep, giveaway and sell. They arrange movers and packers and help to decide which furniture will fit in the new space. This is one of the issues we are struggling with right now with our Mom. She has a hard time understanding what will fit and what she can realistically keep. I feel uncomfortable “talking her into” selling items that she thinks she can keep (even when I’m sure they won’t fit in the new space) She’s moving from a 1500 sq ft  townhouse to a 850 sq ft apartment.  She really needs a professional, practical eye and a scale floor plan to show her exactly where things might fit or not.

We were planning to show her furniture for sale tomorrow afternoon, but I’ve called that off and pulled the ads I’d placed on Craigslist for the time being. I really believe she needs some time with the professional organizer to make decisions she can be happy with. I’d hate for her to resent us later for encouraging her to let things go before she was ready. She’s been doing really well about making decisions about the small stuff. We have packed up a few boxes for donations already and she’s been working on more herself.

Hoping for a productive day tomorrow!

]]> http://www.triagefromhome.com/2009/04/hiring-an-organizer/feed/ 0 The Laundry Room- Loads of Fun http://www.triagefromhome.com/2009/01/the-laundry-room-loads-of-fun/ http://www.triagefromhome.com/2009/01/the-laundry-room-loads-of-fun/#comments Wed, 28 Jan 2009 15:47:00 +0000 Helen http://www.triagefromhome.com/?p=163 It’s funny what kinds of things get me excited:-) My sweet and smart husband built these shelves and work surface (bracket system is Antonius from Ikea) for our laundry room. Check out the fold-down drying rack above the sink. Ikea ROCKS! The shelves he cut and finished himself so we could do custom sizes. We just bought the new machines from Sears, after our 30+ year old existing dryer stopped working. The laundry sink is quite new too. The old one was falling off its broken legs when we moved in. Looking at these before and after photos you can see that pretty much everything has been replaced. The back door was replaced when we changed all the windows and doors in ‘05. Jon put an electronic combination lock on it so the kids don’t have to worry about forgetting their keys. (trouble is- they tell all their friends the combination!) All we need now is the new floor, but I promised I wouldn’t go there just yet…

I painted the room Cabbage Patch green a few months ago and I love it. Don’t you just love paint names? Sometimes I think the colour names influence my choices. My living room paint is Warm Muffin and my dining room is Ryegrass. The only one I think I didn’t like the name of was the bathroom– Candlewax…reminds me of earwax- eww!
Anyway, I digress…now it’s time to find some nice storage boxes and open bins to use on the shelves to make it look all tidy and Ikea-Catalogue-ish.

Update: High praise came from my 16 year old son Devon, who said “hey, the laundry room actually looks like a laundry room now”
:-)

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