Serene Spaces

I hired Serene Spaces to do a full unpack for me after moving to Virginia. I was only in town two weeks to help my partner get settled in before returning to Afghanistan.
We turned over the boxes and the keys to Sarah, told her to make it work and she did! Very easy to work with, responds quickly, very fair prices. I would definitely recommend Sarah to someone who needed help with packing, unpacking or organizing.

I got a deal back in August for Sarah to come out for a couple hours. I put it off until it was close to expiring as I tend to put off organizing in my place! My place is cute, but much smaller than I have lived in before (but I own it, so I have to make it my own). I am constantly trying to get motivation to purge… I am a pack rat and I just don’t take the time to work on it as much as I should. There wasn’t a whole lot we could really get done in two hours, but one area we worked on was my bathroom which I recently did some changes to… we pulled out stuff I have had in boxes since I moved there and went through it. We thew out expired products and things I won’t use and organized the rest in some plastic boxes I have. It’s nice to open the cabinet and just see one box now to go through as opposed to a stack. Sarah was patient, very personable and non-​judgemental. It was like sitting with a friend chatting while going through stuff. I’ve had friends before who have just stressed me out when trying to help, but Sarah understands why people battle «stuff» and comes up with reasonable solutions. If I had the money, I’d have her help more, but it’s really just motivation on my part. The good thing was that after she left, I kept working on my place and made some progress. Thanks Sarah!

While I am a relatively neat person, my closets can be pretty cluttered, as they are the parts of a house that guests typically don’t see, and therefore the first place to be a «catch all» for things that don’t fit anywhere else. As a gift to myself, I had Sarah come over and help me with a linen/​medicine closet that had gotten out of hand. At $ 30/​hour, this is money VERY well spent. We went through all sorts of toiletries and things I didn’t even know I had, separated them by category, and then evaluated what I had too much of: lotions and skincare. I was able to throw a lot out but also make a pile of things to give to Safe Place. Even still, I feel like I have more items than I did before, just because now I actually know what I have! Our final step was to label each box, which got me addicted to labeling. When she left, I just walked around labeling things for an hour or so with my own label maker. OCD? Yes. Nuts? You decide. I definitely recommend this service! :)