Efficient and clutter free
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When Walpole residents Tom and Bev Ford moved into their four-bedroom home two years ago, they knew that having only a garage for storage, and no basement, would necessitate "certain adjustments," as Tom puts it. For a while, everything that didn't go in the house was put in the garage (below, left). Actually organizing what they put there "was something we'd been whittling away on," he says. "We just never got around to finishing it."
Enter Denise King and Ellen Potash of Clear the Clutter. "My first impression was that it wasn't that bad," King says. "They didn't have that much stuff to throw out. Really, in this case it was more of an occupational hazard."
Because Tom Ford is an account manager for a food brokerage, he often has cases upon cases of product awaiting distribution at trade shows. (Fortunately, Bev's job as a freelance writer doesn't contribute to the clutter.)
The organizers -- helped by Chris Graham of Around the Clock! in Somerset and Zele Avradopoulos of ZOrganize in Waltham -- "had to get Ford thinking in terms of zones," says King.
Tom couldn't be happier with the result. "Before, I knew where stuff was, but it wasn't as easy to get to," he says. "Now I can see everything that's there."
