Declutter, Organize & Prepare for Market
Decluttering & Organizing Services
Sometimes houses manage to fill themselves with odds and ends that quickly take over your space, despite your best efforts to keep the clutter at bay. We all have that pesky junk drawer filled with old takeout flyers, pencil stubs, and knickknacks tucked away in our homes.
What is decluttering?
Decluttering is the act of removing unnecessary items from a place. The goal is to organize and reprioritize one’s space.
Studies have shown that clutter can actually increase feelings of stress, depression and anxiety, and it’s common to feel overwhelmed when considering how to tackle the mess.
When your clutter feels out of control, you can trust Darling Solutions’ decluttering services to sort through the unnecessary items and take back your space!
How is it helpful?
Decluttering can help reduce stress, depression and anxiety, as well as increase feelings of control (along with many other benefits).
When you take the time to declutter and organize your space, it’s a form of self-care. It’s also easier to stay organized – everything has an assigned place and purpose.
Being aware of what you have can increase feelings of gratitude and well-being, but it can also make you more conscientious of what new things you are bringing into your home, and how they will serve you.
Our Solution:
When your clutter feels out of control, you can trust our decluttering services to sort through the unnecessary items, and take back your space! We won’t be frightened away by mess or clutter.
We will work with you to understand your goals, help guide you in making choices on what you can part with, and organize your space so that it is functional and practical for your everyday life.
If you want to keep everything, but have it neatly organized and arranged, we can help with that too – we offer home decluttering services to help bring order from chaos!
Allow Darling Solutions to help you – we can’t keep your house tidy after we’ve left, but we can reorganize your home and give you a clutter-free, organized space.
Consultation
Customized estimate and service proposal- Provide an in-person consultation, or a phone/ email consultation (pictures welcomed!).
- Establish dates and timelines for your service.
- After the consultation, we’ll present you with our service proposal and estimate.
- Contact us if you wish to move forward with our proposal, and we'll take it from there!
Communication
Planning and clear communications- Confirm dates and timelines for your service, and book confirmed dates in our calendar.
- Plan and orchestrate the entire service, including reserving elevators and referring or coordinating outside services as required.
- Email you a detailed service plan, including dates and times, so that you have all the information you need written down in one place.
- Respond to your calls and emails, and answer any questions you may have.
- Provide an invoice by email, after your service is complete.
Service
Provided by our own trucks and team- Bring required supplies to complete your service.
- Sort and organize your home anywhere you choose – no kitchen, bathroom, or storage room will scare us away!
- Tidy common areas to create more space and organization
- Reorganize closet and cupboard space to maximize utility and practicality.
- Suggest or purchase organizational aids to help keep you organized long after we’ve left.
- Pack and remove unnecessary articles to be stored, donated, disposed of, or recycled.
- Store and label items clearly for easy retrieval.
Prepare for Market Services
Selling your house? We can help to bring up the perceived value and ensure you get the most value possible from the sale of your house, regardless of how hot the real estate market is!
First impressions matter!
The goal of preparing for market is to help potential buyers visualize living in the house, which is achieved by depersonalizing the current living arrangements.
Because many buyers begin their housing search on the internet, the effects can be quite dramatic – the photos listed online are the first impression a potential buyer has. Let Darling Solutions enhance your home’s indoor charm and outdoor appeal!
When should I prepare for market?
Preparing for Market is typically best employed when you have already moved out of your house, so that day-to-day life doesn’t create mess or clutter that could impact showings.
Sometimes that isn’t possible — we will work with your individual requirements to create an organized and decluttered space that is showing-friendly, but still maintains a balance of style and functionality for you to live comfortably in the meantime.
Our Solution:
We use as much of the existing house contents as possible to “stage” the house for sale; by organizing, rearranging and removing obvious personal items and photos from the space, we help to ensure maximum appeal for prospective homebuyers.
Our team may also make suggestions about fixtures and paint colours to enhance the existing décor, or help neutralize your house in the eyes of potential buyers.
If required, Darling Solutions can remove excess furniture and boxes for storage or dispersal. We can also arrange for the house to be cleaned, exterior landscaping and cleaning, and more! No Ottawa moving company can match our superior service and attention to detail.
When we’re finished preparing for market, the space is clutter-free, neutral, and clean to best showcase the property.
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Consultation
Customized estimate and service proposal- Provide an in-person consultation, or a phone/ email consultation (pictures welcomed!).
- Establish dates and timelines for your service.
- After the consultation, we’ll present you with our service proposal and estimate.
- Contact us if you wish to move forward with our proposal, and we'll take it from there!
Communication
Planning and clear communications- Confirm dates and timelines for your service, and book confirmed dates in our calendar.
- Plan and orchestrate the entire service, including reserving elevators and referring or coordinating outside services as required.
- Email you a detailed service plan, including dates and times, so that you have all the information you need written down in one place.
- Respond to your calls and emails, and answer any questions you may have.
- Provide an invoice by email, after your service is complete.
Service
Provided by our own trucks and team- Optimize furniture placement, lighting and décor using YOUR house contents - no furniture rental fees!
- Declutter and organize your house contents, hiding personal photos and items away neatly
- Highlight the home’s focal points
- Pack and remove home contents as needed, for storage or dispersal (family/ friends, donation, disposal, etc.)
- Make suggestions on interior and exterior fixtures, painting or repairs, as well as landscaping, to minimize your costs while maximizing curb appeal
- Provide a light cleaning of your house
- Provide referrals to deep cleaning, contractor, and/or landscaping services as required
Frequently Asked Questions
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No, Darling Solutions does our best to stage homes with existing furniture, and we do not stock staging materials or furniture. Our expert team can make suggestions on purchases, or look into rental furniture for staging if absolutely required. Some realtors have staging materials for their clients to use during photography and showings – it may be worth asking them, just in case!
Good question - yes, you can leave packed boxes in your home, but we don't usually recommend it. Our team will make reasonable suggestions based on your situation.
Consider it from your buyer's perspective - this is their first time seeing the house. Our goal is for them to imagine what it would be like to live there; if they can't see half the room because it's full of boxes, they'll probably have trouble picturing their furniture placements.
That said, it's not always possible (or practical) to remove packed boxes, especially before a move! In a pinch, the most important things to remember are to make the boxes look organized, and to block as little visual space as possible in each room. Try to use uniform size and colour boxes and stack them neatly against the wall, labels facing out, no more than 3-4 boxes high.
(Bonus - using similar sizes and shapes of boxes is actually faster, as they stack neatly - not just in your house, but also in the moving truck and on our moving dollies! Non-standardized boxes can take longer to load and transport, as each one needs a bit more TLC to ensure they travel safely)
