Home Transitions

A breath of fresh air. Gwynnae worked with my family to tackle a closet full of clutter. I appreciate her philosophy and approach and the result was well worth the investment. It is very helpful to have an objective party involved when you are trying to part with things you have had for many years. In some cases it makes sense to keep things, but you realize through the work with Gwynnae that you can achieve greater satisfaction by reducing/​eliminating. She also offers a fresh perspective on how to use your space. I highly recommend Gwynnae’s organization services.

I consider myself to be a Type-​A, highly organized person, and with two children + being in a *tight* house with very little storage, everything was out of control. What I needed was a clone of myself — intense attention to detail, highly organized, but also somebody who could help me think outside the box and work with me side-​by-​side to help me regain the organization I so desperately needed. Gwynnae at Home Transitions was EXACTLY all those things.
Gwynnae worked hard with me, asking me hard questions to help me de-​clutter, giving me creative (and neat and tidy and EASY) storage ideas, and she even helped me problem solve how to live without my office (gasp!) so my 4-​month-​old baby girl could have a room of her own (and so could her parents!). She even hauled all my (tons of) donation piles to great charities for me and sent me the receipts for my taxes. And I learned a lot of skills from her that I continue to use to make additional progress (or when my husband says he wants to keep something we haven’t seen in 7 years).
5 stars (I’d give her 10 if I could), A+
Use Home Transitions. You will not be sorry!

Out of necessity, I had to clean out my elderly mother’s home immediately following her passing. To say I felt overwhelmed would be a huge understatement. Gwynnae came in like an organizational angel and personally led me through the process of sorting, storing, and donating my mother’s belongings. To me, of course, it felt like I was touching every part of my mother’s long life, including every single book of matches, hotel shower cap and business card (and much, much more) she’d ever laid hands on – she was quite the pack rat.
Gwynnae stood right there by me for five straight days and helped me shoulder the crushing emotional weight of all the items to sort through, from vintage hats, to out-​of-​style clothes, to furniture and keepsakes. For whatever reason, these things were important enough to my mother that she choose to hang on to them for all these years. But Gwynnae kept gently asking me the same question, ‘Even though your mother had it for so long, how important is it to you now and going into the future?” We used the three-​pile sorting system — 1) Keep, 2) Discard/​Donate, and 3) Not Sure. The Not Sure option was incredibly helpful, in that it allowed me to have some extra time to reflect upon the sentimental importance of particular items. Most importantly, there was never any judgement or criticism placed on what I deemed important enough to keep.
In the end, it was extremely freeing to decide to donate most of her things, knowing that my mother’s legacy would continue, in whatever small way, through the re-​use of her items. Gwynnae was also extremely creative in finding buyers for the items with any remote value. She identified a vintage clothes reseller who adored my mother’s hats, gave me good money for them, and subsequently ironed and tailored new life into them for others to wear and enjoy. A total victory!
All of my work with Gwynnae and Home Transitions was done with kindness, confidentiality, and a firm but supportive hand to hold during this monumental life transition. I highly recommend her services for whatever organizational projects you may be considering, be it cleaning out your junk drawer or sorting through an estate.