Services

What I Offer

Project and Space Planning

I’ll help you plan for a streamlined, simplified, and contented life in your new home.

  • Create a project plan based on your needs

  • Measure furniture to determine what can comfortably fit in your new space

  • Understand how you use your space to retain the familiarity of home

  • Use a hands-on space planning tool to try different furniture arrangements

  • Check your new space to ensure proper fit and to accommodate for HVAC, cable, etc.

Downsizing

With efficiency and care, we will sort items together by room or space so you only move what will fit in your new home. Then, we will implement strategies for letting go of the rest.

  • Work alongside you to guide decisions around what will move with you and what won’t.

  • Create PACK/DO NOT PACK areas within the home

  • Color code items that are moving with you and those that are not

  • Set up estate sales, online auctions, and consignment

  • Distribute treasured items to family and friends

  • Recommend ways to retain precious mementos in space-conserving ways

  • Coordinate donation, recycling, shredding, and hauling

Move Management

I can be present on pack and move days from start to finish to ensure a seamless, low-stress experience for you.

  • Partner with a Bay Area NASMM-accredited packing and moving company

  • Streamline the packing process for ease and reduced moving costs

  • Answer any the movers’ questions about what is moving and what is not so you don’t have to

  • Ensure packed boxes are delivered to their correct rooms in your new home

  • Set up furniture according to floorplans

Unpacking and Organizing

I provide unpacking and organization services to help you get settled in quickly, while easing the physical work involved and streamlining your home so it functions best for you. 

  • Carefully unpack all your items

  • Put your belongings away in their new homes

  • Organize the kitchen to ensure best flow

  • Closet and storage space organization

  • Remove boxes and packing materials 

Home Cleanouts

I manage all the details to ensure the home you moved out of is cleared and ready to be prepared for sale.

  • Work with your real estate professional to fit into their home sale timeline

  • Coordinate with the estate sale team and hauler to move any remaining items out of the home

  • Manage the logistics of donation, hauling, and consignment of any remaining items

The Results

““Allison was indispensable in our move. She has an experienced eye in helping to determine what goes and what stays. She is industrious and high-energy, but sensitive to her clients’ needs, especially when making a big move involving significant downsizing. It is a major bonus that she teams up with realtors, movers, and other resources she works with. We quickly became quite dependent on her ideas, quick decisions, flexibility, blazing speed AND patience! She turned another several week process into 4 days. We really did not want to see her leave!”

— Ron and Nancy