GARAGE

This garage owner is a salesman. He unloads brochures and materials from his truck every week. These materials were getting damaged and were hard to manage. The goal was to assign homes for items that were safe, to use the wall and ceiling space, and design a system that was effortless to use. A garage storage system was also installed to keep things more secure, clean and off the floor. Check out this Tribune Review article for more details.

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KITCHEN

This is our “Messy Space 2003” winner. Fellow organizer Patty Kreamer and I tackled this kitchen for our 81 year old winner in 5 hours. Clearing the clutter and helping our winner think differently about the “stuff in her life were key components of this job. To see more detail check out the Post Gazette article on Get Organized Week.

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KITCHEN 2

This busy mom was not using her space efficiently and was using some premium cabinet space for items not used often. Utilizing her pantry better let keep her high use items in convienent cabinets and keep her counter tops clear.

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OFFICE

We started organizing this local Pittsburgh executive by clearing out the filing cabinets of outdated materials and quickly creating current files and putting them where he could easily access them.  He also found that he was holding alot of items that were to be delegated to others.  We established an easy system to help those items flow and had this office transformed in 3 hours!

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	Before & After
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"Having an organized garage helps me transfer from work week activities to weekend activities with ease. The McKees had great creative solutions and lots product knowledge.  They define the word "professional" and actually made organizing my garage FUN!   The best news is that I am able to keep it that way because they came up with a solution just for me."

"I was a little iffy about whether I wanted to do it, but after seeing the space I have now, it was well worth it. Now I'm starting to do some organizing in other parts of my house."

Leslie:
" You have to think of your house as a container for you and of  your garage as a container for your car! Some people forget that."

"… for that first evening, she could walk into her kitchen. She could make a sandwich and pour a glass of orange juice. And she could eat at a table that was completely cleared…"