The Challenge: Our client, Wayne, works from his home and had several computer towers networked to a server with seven external drives. His office was hot because of all the computers and the towers take up a lot of floor space. Wayne’s biggest problem was the cables running everywhere and although he had tried all kinds of solutions, he had never been able to find a way to keep the cables off the floor. They collected dust and were impossible to keep clean. Wayne was upgrading his computer network and wanted to go wireless to get rid of the cables, but he had no shelf place to put the smaller Mac-Mini computers he purchased.

The Solution: Wayne had a spacious closet in his office that was so stuffed with clutter he was afraid to open it because the boxes came tumbling out. It made the perfect server room and all seven drives easily fit with a wireless router and the new server unit. The smaller Mac-Mini computer fits neatly on the desk behind his monitor.

To make this happen we first we sorted through years of accumulated clutter in the closet, on the shelves and on Wayne’s desk. We threw out about half of it and shipped back old files to clients on completed projects. We sorted through all of the old software manuals and magazines on his shelves and trashed about half of them that were out of date.

Clients often make the mistake of thinking that items must be stored in the room where they are most likely to be used. This creates a problem where some storage areas in your home are over used and some are under used. Wayne was using that system and overwhelmed the storage space in his office to the point where he couldn’t get to anything. We moved all of his old files and records he needed to keep, but hadn’t touched in a year to another storage area in his home that was under used. We put in an organizing system that allows him to get to his records and samples with greater ease than he could in his office.

Wayne ended up with a server room, no cables, no clutter and twice the storage area. He went from no shelf space at all to more that he needed. His office is much cooler because of the wireless network and much easier to clean with everything off the floor and in the server room/closet.

Call 404-803-4547 today for a free clutter intervention phone consultation. We can help you plan and budget for your Clutter Free project.