Lowri Rees-O’Donnell
Since I was a child, I found a cathartic joy in creating and organizing a space of my own. It was a natural ability to look at a chaotic or untidy space and begin to organize it in my head, and given the opportunity I would rearrange, straighten, create, tuck it in, wipe it down, stack it up and put it away.
Yes, I know what you are thinking right about now. OCD? Control freak? Martha Stewart meets Mary Poppins?
Throughout my life, I have consistently received comments on my spaces, from my childhood bedroom, college dorm, city apartments and all the way to my current home that I share with my wonderful husband and two children. As my space grew so did my creativity. With that I began to hear comments outside the frequent wonderment of, “How are you unpacked in just one day? How is it so clean and where is all your stuff?”
Although the observations were compliments, they didn’t feel that way. I often wondered if my love for organization had roots in the madness of my own childhood and whether my love for clean lines, order and beauty was a flaw, or a gift. It’s now 27 years later I’m transcended to that glorious feeling of a job well done as I hear, “Wow your home is beautiful”! “You are so talented?” “I love your simplicity?” “Are you an interior designer?” “Can you help me?” Then, I heard the words that gave birth to my biggest vision to date.” “ You should be a professional organizer.” Wait!!!! What!!!
I live in a wonderful neighborhood with some very beautiful houses, that are the result of very hard working families, People spend so much time working to pay for what is most likely the biggest investment of their life, it’s the backdrop to their life story, it’s their safe haven and its where they should feel most proud, yet for so many they come home to feel overwhelmed by clutter and an abundance of materialistic nonsense that they don’t need. Somewhere along the way we began to define success by how much “stuff” we could obtain only to find ourselves asking why do we have 150 coffee mugs and nowhere to put an empty flower vase on the counter along with the rest of the stuff we have NO space for.
I believe we need less stuff and more space. Space for happiness and space for peace. Together, I can help you create that space because it is what I LOVE to do and when I am done we will both exhale with joy for a job well-done.
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