When you hire a professional organizer, you can get as much or as little help as you need. You may want help decluttering and organizing your entire home, organizing several rooms, or finally getting one closet or storage space under control.
Full-service home organizing is a hands-on service. Instead of simply giving you ideas or telling you what you could do differently, a professional organizer actually works with you to declutter, sort, organize, and set up your space.
What’s included ultimately depends on what you want help with. Some clients need to declutter before they can get organized, while others already know what they want to keep and just need help organizing everything.
What Does Full-Service Home Organizing Mean?
Full-service home organizing means having a professional organizer handle the hands-on work of organizing your home.
Depending on your project, this can include decluttering, sorting and categorizing your belongings, organizing everything you want to keep, and creating systems that make your home easier to use and maintain.
Full-service doesn’t necessarily mean you have to organize your entire home. You can get full-service help with one room, several areas, or your whole house. It really comes down to how much help you want or need.
What Does Full-Service Home Organizing Include?
Every project is different, but full-service home organizing can include:
- Hands-on decluttering
- Sorting and categorizing your belongings
- Organizing everything you want to keep
- Creating designated places for your belongings
- Setting up organizing systems
- Lightly cleaning or wiping out spaces when needed
- Bringing in organizing products when helpful
- Labeling bins, containers, or other storage
- Providing boxes and trash bags for decluttering
- Assisting with donation drop-off
- Working with one organizer or a larger organizing team
Exactly what your project includes depends on the spaces you want help with and what needs to be done.
Decluttering Your Home
If you want help decluttering, your professional organizer can work through your space with you one area at a time.
They can help you go through your belongings and decide what you want to keep, donate, or throw away. Your organizer provides guidance, support, and accountability throughout the process while helping you keep things moving.
We also bring basic decluttering supplies, including boxes and trash bags, so you don’t have to prepare everything yourself before we arrive.
Once you’ve decided what you no longer want, we can also assist with donation drop-off.
Organizing Everything You Want to Keep
You don’t necessarily have to declutter to work with a professional organizer. If you already know what you want to keep, we can focus on getting everything organized.
Depending on the space, we may take everything out first, lightly clean or wipe down the area if needed, and sort your belongings into categories.
From there, we organize everything back into the space based on what you have, how often you use it, and what makes the most sense for your everyday routine.
Our goal is to make it easier to see what you have, find what you need, put things away, and keep the space organized after we leave.
Do Professional Organizers Bring Organizing Products?
Organizing products can be part of the process, but they aren’t always necessary.
Some spaces may benefit from bins, baskets, drawer organizers, labels, or other storage products. Other spaces already have everything they need and simply need to be reorganized.
We can determine what makes sense based on the space, what you’re storing, and how you want to use it. You don’t need to fill your house with matching containers just because you’re getting organized.
Will I Have One Organizer or a Team?
Some projects only need one professional organizer, while larger projects may involve multiple organizers.
The number of organizers depends on the size of the project, the areas you want help with, how much needs to be done, and how quickly you want to work through everything.
For larger or full-home projects, multiple organizers can help us cover more areas of the home and get more done during each session.
What Areas Can a Professional Organizer Help With?
Professional organizers can help with almost any area of your home.
This can include:
- Closets
- Kitchens
- Pantries
- Bedrooms
- Bathrooms
- Garages
- Laundry rooms
- Home offices
- Playrooms
- Nurseries
- Sheds
- Attic Closets
You can focus on one problem area or combine several spaces into a larger organizing project.
You also don’t have to organize an entire room or space.
A professional organizer can help with something as specific as a few kitchen cabinets, a playroom closet, a section of your pantry, or even a certain shelf in your garage. It really depends on what areas are bothering you and where you want the most help.
Do I Have to Organize My Entire Home?
No. You don’t have to organize your entire home to use a full-service home organizing company.
You might only need help with your kitchen and pantry. Maybe your closets have become difficult to keep up with. Or you might want to work through your garage, bedrooms, and storage spaces over several sessions.
Other clients do want to go room by room and eventually declutter and organize their entire home.
There isn’t one right amount of organizing to do. It depends on your home, your goals, and how much help you want.
How Long Does It Take to Organize an Entire Home?
Full-home organizing is not a one-day project. It takes time to properly work through an entire house, especially when decluttering is part of the process.
A full-home project may take several days, a week, or longer and typically requires multiple organizing sessions.
How long it takes depends on factors such as the size of your home, the number of rooms and spaces you want help with, how much you own, the current level of organization, how much decluttering is needed, and whether you’re working with one organizer or a team.
A home where everything is staying and simply needs to be organized is a very different project from a home where we need to go room by room and help the client decide what to keep, donate, and throw away.
How Much Does Full-Service Home Organizing Cost?
The cost of full-service home organizing depends on the size and scope of your project.
If you only want help with a specific room or area, professional organizing services can start around $795.
If you want to declutter and organize your entire home, you can generally expect a full-home project to start around $4,000 to $5,000 and go up from there.
The final cost depends on how many areas you want help with, the size of your home, how much you have, whether decluttering is involved, how many organizers are needed, and how many sessions the project takes.
Ultimately, the more hands-on help you need, the larger the project will be.
Is Full-Service Home Organizing Worth It?
Yes. Full-service home organizing is absolutely worth it and can truly benefit anyone. Many of our clients who want help organzing their entire home are busy professionals, professional athletes, busy families, seniors, individuals with ADHD, and more.
Getting your home professionally organized is an investment, especially when you’re working through multiple rooms or your entire house.
If you’re considering the investment, you can also read more about why New Orleans homeowners are investing in professional organizers.
But our goal isn’t just to make everything look organized for a few days.
We want to create places for your belongings and organizing systems that make sense for the way you actually use your home. That can make it easier to find what you need, put things away, keep up with everyday routines, and maintain the organization after the project is finished.
You can also check out our top organizing tips for New Orleans homes for simple ways to keep different areas of your home more organized.
Get Your Home Professionally Organized
If you live in New Orleans, Metairie, Kenner, the Westbank, the Northshore, or surrounding areas, Professional Organizer New Orleans provides full-service home organizing to help you declutter and organize your home.
Whether you want help with your entire home or just a few specific rooms or areas, our team is here to help you create spaces that are easier to use, easier to find what you need, and easier to maintain moving forward.
To get started, call us at (504) 321-6792 or fill out an online contact form. We’re here to help!
