ShipShape Organizing Services

Shipshape designed and installed our closets and did a superlative job. But truly, they are more than organizers — they are knowledgeable and trusted advisors who do get the job done down to the smallest detail. It is quite rare these days to find professionals who do their work in a timely and efficient manner and at the same time are a pleasure to be around. But every moment spent with the people of Shipshape was worth every penny we paid. Coming into people’s homes can be a tricky situation but their team made it a a really valuable experience. We can now go shopping in our closet (their term, not ours)! They are truly the most organized of organizers.

These folks are wonderful. Packed us up with clear record of location for everything, and then before we returned ten months later, everything was put back exactly as it was. We arrived after a 24 hour series of flights and fell into a cleanly made up bed in our house where everything was exactly where we left it. (We had to store stuff because renters used the house while we wete away). This is a great service. The folks are reasonable, accessible, trustworthy, and an all round great service. We will use them again for sure.

When it comes to someone else’s clutter and junk, I find it quite easy to throw or give away what’s not needed and organize the remainder. However, when it comes to my own clutter, I move at a snail’s pace, if at all. Getting introduced to ShipShape by a bathroom contractor we had 18 years ago has been such a gift to my husband and me over the years.
Over the past 18 years, my husband and I have used ShipShape’s services for both home and business organization for the following projects:
1. After a bathroom remodel in 1996, Sylvia and her crew helped us to organize a new bathroom cabinet and a new hall closet by helping us to get rid of old towels, sheets, and pillows. Sheet shelves were labeled so it was easy to see which sheets were which sizes. Sylvia manages to strike a balance between firm taskmaster and allowing you to keep what you love. She has diplomatically helped rid us of clutter while finding space to store things we think we have to hold onto. («We’ll just put these in this box with a label and maybe in 3 – 5 years when you notice you haven’t opened it, you’ll be ready to get rid of them.»)
2. ShipShape de-​cluttered and re-​organized our bedroom closets soon after our bathroom remodel.
3. In the late 1990’s, they helped us set up organizing and filing systems for our home office as we began to add employees. The systems streamlined our workflows and made us more efficient.
4. They helped us de-​clutter and pack before a major remodel of our master bedroom in 2004.
5. After our 2004 remodel, which included the addition of a downstairs storeroom, ShipShape completely designed and built out the master bedroom closet, customizing it to our specific needs. They also gave us great advice about how to organize the new storeroom, helped us catalog the office archive area of the storeroom, and implemented easy to use guidelines for retention and disposal of documents.
6. In 2009, they helped my husband’s mother in a move to a new apartment by completely setting up and organizing her kitchen and bedroom closets. Since she had not used ShipShape to pack before moving, this included paring down items on move-​in so everything would fit in a smaller space.
7. A few months later, they also helped my husband’s mother to hang her pictures throughout the apartment with stunning results — particularly impressive since she had many pictures and not much wall space.
Next up (hopefully in the next year or so): a kitchen remodel. I plan to have ShipShape help us de-​clutter what has accumulated in our kitchen cabinets in the last 20+ years and pack before the remodel and then hire them again after the remodel to help organize the new kitchen.
Sylvia is a great organizer and every member of the ShipShape crews we’ve had over the years has been professional, efficient, courteous, trustworthy, and personable. You will be glad you hired them.

I bought a living social deal for 2 hours of organizing. We contacted them prior to the expiration date to set up an appointment, but they said they didn’t have availability. They said we could apply it for their services at their regular rate, but that’s all they could do. If they can provide the time, why can’t they honor the offer and agreement?
Is this false advertising, or fraud, or what???

I spent 2 hours with Sylvia and I was amazed and delighted by how useful the time was. She helped me redesign my office, gave me tips on how to make decisions on what to keep, showed me how to organize info, and directed me to filing and on-​line tools to help me get more organized. She was terrific — clear, direct, refreshing, making a challenging situation one that I am eagerly taking on!

I had bought a Living Social certificate for 2 hours of time with ShipShape, hoping they could help us prepare for remodeling part of our house. Remodeling is very disruptive, especially when doing your master bedroom & bathroom. I had been looking at all the things we had to do and dreaded getting started. My wife didn’t think Shipshape would be much help, especially in only 2 hours. Boy was she wrong, and she now admits she was wrong. 2 hours with Sylvia from Shipshape reduced the dread of the pending remodel project, gave us a road map of things to do, and what to put where, helped us set priorities between preparing for the remodel (top priority) and organizing our house (less important right now). I highly recommend ShipShape.

I absolutely LOVED my experience with Sylvia of ShipShape! Wow. The 2-​hour consultation changed my life!
I was letting paper clutter effect my life, my attitude, and overall happiness level. The papers were absolutely ruling my life.
Not any more!
Sylvia quickly showed me how to deal with the paper stacks that were all over my house.
Now there’s order… and I am LOVING it!
I can’t wait to hire her back to help take me to the next level of organization.
I’m so thankful I called them. Really… I should have done this YEARS ago.

I was feeling truly overwhelmed by the piles (and boxes and bags) of papers, medical records, receipts, to-​do lists, etc. that had been accumulating for the past few years. Every time I devoted a few hours to going through the piles, I felt worse because I couldn’t seem to make a dent in them.
Fortunately, I found ShipShape (through a LivingSocial coupon) and scheduled an appointment with Deb. Well, 3 days ago she came over and helped me tremendously — in a mere two hours! She’s very professional and has decades of experience, yet she made me feel totally comfortable the moment she walked in the door.
Deb is an excellent listener and very understanding. She encouraged me to let go of my embarrassment and guilt about letting my home office become so disorganized in the first place. Then she established a simple system of organizing that fit my needs perfectly. It felt so good to relocate the majority of those papers to the recycling bin. Deb also gave me wonderful tips and resources for continuing my organizing mission and e-​mailed me a very helpful recap of our session.
My home office is no longer a source of constant stress for me. Everything feels manageable again, which is a huge relief.

I’ve worked with the crew at Ship Shape on two occasions– a few years ago as we made plans to pack up a house in preparation for staging and selliing, and most recently, ShipShape answered a desperate plea for my work office.
Within four hours, Sylvia and Christine had partnered with me and each other in going through those dreaded piles, long forgotten stacks of paper hidden away in those cavernous lateral files (‘coffins for paper as Sylvia calls them) and had them sorted. They have sold me on the concept of «going vertical» for projects, organizing like with like, and shared some great Google tools for managing multiple personal calendars for personal schedules and community work.
I’m about three weeks «out» from the original sort day, and my office remains just as organized and clean as it did the moment they left.
Thank you ShipShape! I’ll be calling you again!

Fabulous. Resourceful. Responsible. I have mail phobia and have too many unfiled piles… Sylvia is the monthly Miracle Department — she’s unbelievably fast and accurate… and opinionated, and really good at helping me stay on top of my stuff!
They are unintimidated by anything. Nothing scares them, is too hard, or too messy. They just handle it. They can lift the weight off you, remove all guilt, and cut through the crap! Call them.

Sylvia and Deb are life-​savers! They actually wield hammers and cordless drills when necessary! They designed, ordered, picked up and installed a new closet system for me AND re-​did my office. I can now find everything and the clutter-​free environment is something I now how to preserve! Significant STRESS REDUCER — better than a spa treatment!

I truly believe that there’s a gene for organizing (disproportionately prevalent among Germans) that I am completely lacking. My home office was so chaotic even Buster the cat hated to go in there and use his kitty litter box. Enter Sylvia and crew — after a day of sorting, filing, recycling and tossing, my office is a thing of beauty. I now spend an inordinate amount of time just gazing in the door, admiring their handiwork. But they don’t just organize spaces, they provide customers with systems to maintain the organization once they’ve finished their work. Deb and Sylvia and their handy helpers will organize offices, garages, help with moves, you name it. Worth every penny.