Unpack and Organize Houston

Houston Professional Organizer mission is to reduce the stress and enhance the joy and excitement of moving to your new home by offering you help unpacking after a move.

Our Pre-Move Purge and Decluttering service is an essential step when preparing to move. We help you pare down your belongings so that you can start fresh in your new home with only the things you need and love.

We work with you to make the tough decisions on what to keep and what to toss or donate.

De-cluttering before you move will make your move easier, more organized and less stressful. It will also cut down on moving costs because you will not be paying to move things you no longer want or need. When you get to your new home your belongings will be sorted and streamlined, making it easier to put away – saving you time and money.

New in Houston?

Do you need help with organizing or unpacking?

Contact Magdalena Bogdan

Hiring a professional organizer will help you avoid costly time off from work, the stress of unpacking and most importantly disruption to your family’s routines.

Below are some pictures, while I was working with a new client/ busy professional  who needed help Organizing and Unpacking.

Master Bedroom / closet after

Master bedroom before

Master bedroom after

Ways to Organize Your Scarves Houston

Are you a great lover of scarves? Houston Professional Organizer has great storage solutions for your scarves.

Does you scarf collection just keep getting bigger and bigger?

These days, everyone is getting in on the scarf trend. And not just during winter. People are wearing scarves year round now. They’re collecting a variety of colors, patterns, fabrics, and styles.

Those of you who like to wear scarves probably might need a good storage solution for them.

Great way to organize your scarves is to use:

1. Scarf Hanger

Hanging your scarves takes zero drawer space and it displays them nicely for easy access. 

18 Loop Scarf Hanger

18 Compartments in three different sizes

2. Scarf drawer

My favorite way :)

Wrapping your scarves around cardboard keeps them in great shape and makes them fit nicely into a basket or drawer.

If you have drawer space available, this is probably your best scarf storage option. Especially if your scarves are valuable or made of fine materials like silk, it’s best to keep them folded or rolled up in a drawer where they won’t become snagged, stretched, faded, or destroyed by pets. Rolling them is especially good because they won’t get creases.

3. PVC Pipe Scarf Organizer

PVC pipe is really inexpensive and is a great way to keep scarves and neckties organized. You will need to measure the height of each drawer and then just cut the pipe into the proper height. Depending on the depth of your drawer, you may be able to get several pipe organizers in there and then you just roll up your neckties and/or scarves and stick them in the pipes.

4. Towel Bar

You can install a basic towel bars on the inside of your French doors.

some other great ideas to store and organize your scarves...

This is me Magdalena Bogdan 

having a little bit of fun with my fabulous client who had 199 scarves: yes we counted them and yes we donated 1/3 to

Goodwill Industries of Houston

Every season,  my client found herself adding new colors and patterns and fabrics, because she is a big believer that every outfit looks a whole lot cuter and more stylish with a scarf. That said, lots of scarves equals a big storage and organization issue.

I prefer to organize scarves first by color and then season. Scarves of similar hues are grouped together to make it easy to find the right scarf for whatever outfit you might be wearing. I also keep all-seasons scarves separate from those thicker, wool and knitted scarves generally reserved for winter.

If your scarf collection reaches the double digits, it is time to donate some out of style scarves to Goodwill .

I hope with some of those ideas your scarves will be organized and easy to find!

Ways to wear a scarf

The European Loop

The Pretzel

for more ideas click the link

5-easy-ways-to-wear-a-scarf

Professional Organizer in Houston, TX

Unpacking Service Houston

The movers arrived and have unloaded all your boxes of belongings. Now comes the task of unpacking all of those boxes and putting things away. 

Unpack your belongings like a professional mover. Start with essentials and focus on one room at a time. Realize you do not have to unpack everything at once.

To start out, consider your family's basic and most essential needs (food, rest and bathing) and begin to unpack accordingly. 

Wishing you did not have to unpack?

If you need some extra hands we can help:

• Unpack and put away belongings in an organized manner

• Organize the kitchen and pantry (put away dishes, glasses, pots and pans)

• Put away clothes, shoes in closets

• Hang your clothing

• Sort and organize linens  and towels

• Organize and put things away in the living room and dinning room

• Set up bathrooms, put away toiletries

• Unpack books onto bookshelves

• Set up the bedrooms and make the beds 

• Set up playrooms for kids

• Shop for organizations products

• Remove packing materials

Houston Professional Organizer will carefully unpack all of your boxes and place each item where they belong.

Moving is an exhausting task and no one really looks forward to unpacking the minute they step into the door of their new home.

 This service will save you time and headaches.

Our objective is to relieve you from stress and have you enjoying your home immediately!

Get Rid of Storage Unit, save money

Professional Organizer Houston will help you get rid of storage unit and save you money.

"Whoever started the storage business is a genius.”

Why people pay to keep their things in storage?
Common reasons/answers: they moved to a smaller house, inherited stuff from a parent, or just accumulated too much to keep at home.

The sad part is when renters lose their belongings when they cannot pay their bills. Or when they die.

Then the storage units are put up for auction.
“At auctions of storage units, the contents are a mystery. Amid the junk buyers may find Rolexes and diamonds, or just someone else's sad story.”

Can you imagine all of your belongings being auctioned off to the highest bidder because you can't afford to pay the storage unit fees?

According to the Self Storage Association, 50% of storage unit renters are storing what won't fit into their homes. 1 out of every 11 Americans rents storage.

“The self-storage business is booming thanks to a nation of pack rats who cling to such things as 8-track tapes and pants with waist sizes long surpassed.”

Tip:
If you have had a storage unit for longer than six months, it’s time for you to have a garage/craigslist sale. You will not only be saving yourself $50-$80 a month in storage fees, but you’ll also make some many selling all of your old unwanted stuff.

Make a committment to yourself and your wallet, to get rid of your unwanted stuff within two months.



At an auction for the contents of a self-storage

Storage Wars Texas


I can arrange for local charities to pick up unwanted items and get you a receipt for tax purposes.
I can drive to Goodwill to donate unwanted itmes, or hold a garage sale for you, for anything you don’t or can’t wear or use any more.

Remember: Use the two-year rule — if you haven’t worn it in two years, it’s time to say goodbye to it.



Read more articles about self-storage auctions:

Personal Property Sold at Storage Unit Auctions

Bids on Lives Left Behind

5 Ways Self Storage Units Are More Sad Museums Than Savvy Solutions

Get rid of that darn storage unit

How To Organize Your Closet

Contact Professional Organizer Houston to get your closet organized. Make getting dressed fast and easy every morning.

Organizing a closet is never easy, especially if you have more stuff than available closet space.

The fastest way to organize your closet is to own fewer clothes because visually it will be easier to find what you’re looking for.

To organize your closet, take everything out and put  it on your bed; go through each piece of clothing one item at a time and assess when you wore it last.  If you haven’t worn something in one year and it’s in good repair, donate it to charity.

Start three piles of items: those you want to keep, those you will donate/throw away and a pile for maybes. Anything with too much wear, holes or stains needs to go straight into the trash. Holding on to old, damaged or unused items creates clutter, which slows down the flow of energy.

Few tips for organizing your closet

Tip 1: Don't keep what You Don’t Need/Wear
Tip 2: Go through your closet twice a year to maintain an organized wardrobe
Tip 3: Break the project down into small chunks, so its not so overwhelming
Tip 4: Get rid of all the wire hangers and dry cleaner bags cluttering up the closet
Tip 5: Use all the same hangers
Tip 6: Have the hangers facing the same way
Tip 7: Separate the types of clothes – group shirts with shirts, pants with pants, dresses with dresses
Tip 8:Organize by color – after you’ve separated the clothes by type and style - now it's time to organize them by color – all white short sleeve shirts together, all blue jeans togehter, etc.
Tip 9: Don’t keep anything on the floor 


Got messy closet? It is time to get organized!

Getting rid of items you don't wear on a regular basis is a key part of keeping your closet clutter-free.

Here are some of my photos from a recent Closet Organizing project in Houston:

closet before

closet before

Get rid of all the wire hangers and dry cleaner bags cluttering up the closet

Closet after - organize clothes by type and by color

Use all the same hangers - closet after

closet after

messy drawer with bathing suits

Drawer with bathing suits organized. I used Ziploc bags to keep them organized.

closet organizing project - closet after :)

Don’t keep anything on the floor 

 Use creative ways to organize and display some of your favorite pieces :)

make up drawer organizing

If these tips don’t provide the motivation you need, or you just aren’t sure where to start, consider hiring a houston professional organizer to help you with the daunting task.

New Year's Resolution - Get Organized!

Houston Professional Organizer can help with those New Year's Resolution - To Get Organized!

Holidays are over and New Year is coming up - Now is a great time to clear out the clutter. Roll up your sleeves and Get Organized!

Here me - organizing my own closet (posing for my blogger page/ business advertising purpose).

I took 3 bags of unwanted clothes to Buffalo Exchange near Montrose. Yeah! Got $200 store credit :-)

~~  This year's- New Year's Resolution - Get Organized!

From Rubbermaid " I am not sure which is more stuffed after this holiday...my stomach or my closet :) I see some  de-cluttering and donating in my future!!! "

When closet organizing - please spend a little time and get rid of all the wire hangers.

Here..I was organizing my client's closet in Houston and I have removed about 200+ wire hangers

Try to use the same kind of hanger for all your clothes  - it makes a huge difference :-)

Lately - very popular "slimline / huggable hangers" - non-slip velvety finish that prevents clothing from slipping off the hanger and protects delicate garments.

Organize your clothes in your closet by color and make your life easier, or I can do it for you..

Magdalena Bogdan, organizing a closet

closet before...

closet after..

We all have things laying around our house we could sell or want to get rid of.

Please read:

10 ways to sell your used/unwanted items

From a last year survey of New Year’s resolutions : 

Number-one resolution is to get organized.

Please read:

Study of New Year’s Resolutions: Get Organized in 2011

I would like to wish all of my clients and friends a Happy New Year!

This year has been an amazing year...