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DECLUTTER

Is your home filled with clutter? Does your kitchen have open spaces, or are the countertops covered in grocery bags, book bags, computer tablets, and more? Is your work-from-home desk a mess of piles of paper and notepads? 

Whether your personal items have accumulated over time or if your busy schedule keeps you distracted, your home spaces may now be hidden beneath clutter. It's time to declutter!

Straighten Up can provide objective eyes - and hands - to remove or reorganize items and help you regain control over your spaces, and your sanity.

"Clear surfaces = Clear mind"

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ORGANIZE

Even if you can't define what it means to be organized, everyone knows how organized space looks. It's especially easy to recognize, and be disturbed by, an unorganized space. 

Organizing spaces in your home can help you identify your priorities and add order to your daily tasks. 

Organizing your home can be tricky: most people want the task completed, but very few people enjoy the process or have the time to do it.

Let Straighten Up organize your home for you - whether it's a kitchen pantry or three-car garage - we can help you restore order to your spaces.

HOME (RE)DECORATING

Your home is a reflection of your personality and lifestyle. What is your home currently saying about you, what would you like it to say?

Would you like to redecorate without buying new?

Straighten Up can help you decorate your home or REDECORATE using the items you currently own.

Watch as we breath new life into your home just by rearranging or repositioning what you have.

MOVING IN/OUT? DOWNSIZING? EMPTY NEST?

​Changing your home is a long and difficult task; It can seem overwhelming. You don't HAVE face it alone or do all the work yourself.

We can help you decide what to keep and help you pack it. Or, help you unpack your belongings and find the best placement for them.

Straighten Up can be there when you need help the most.

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CLEANING

What could need to be said about cleaning? Every place needs it, but many people don't have the time or interest for cleaning.

Straighten Up knows that your home cannot be its best until it is clean. Call us for anything from a quick spruce-up before your next dinner party to a major cleaning overhaul.

With Straighten Up, any season can have a Spring Cleaning! 

STAGING FOR OPEN HOUSES

Calling all Realtors, real estate agents, and anyone with a property for sale:

It is true: you have only one chance to make a good first impression. This is especially true in real estate because people make their purchase decision based on emotions rather than logic. Don't lose your sale because your house doesn't make a great first impression.

Call Straighten Up before showing a property to a potential buyer!

SPECIAL EVENT DECORATION

Straighten Up can help you decorate your home with seasonal/holiday or party decorations.

If you've got the decorations, but just don't want to install them yourself,

call Straighten Up

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We’ve all heard it, we’ve all said it: “There’s no place like home.” In any event that is what we as a whole need to think, yet is your home making you worried? Do you stroll in the entryway in the wake of a monotonous day of work just to be welcomed by heaps of unfolded clothing, dirty dishes, and dust bunnies? Did you at any point consider the possibility that your home could be increasing your feelings of anxiety?

You might be surprised to learn that research has shown that your home can radically influence your disposition, and it can even make you debilitated. Sadness, depression, and anxiety are serious issues! Our homes are supposed to be our haven; the spot to get away and loosen up.

Scientific research has shown that your home’s lighting, space, and room configuration can influence how you feel, your mood, and your level of energy. These examinations need to lead to the formation of another field of design called, Neuro-engineering. This is an energizing, imaginative improvement whereby neuro-science is joined with engineering to make current plans that are compelling, practical, and even recuperating!

Our brains are complex and even funny! We may never totally understand how our brains function, however, a few examinations show how the mind responds to balance, and it’s a positive response. Our brains love evenness and balance. Sure, it might appear senseless to say that setting coordinating nightstands with coordinating lights next to your couch will make you more joyful, yet there is some mental confirmation to accomplishing balance and how it can affect your content. This associate back to our contention about minimalist homes—they are normally basic and even in plain and design, along these lines giving you a more joyful viewpoint as soon as you enter.

Decluttering goes a long way past improving the feel of your home or workspace. It’s fundamental for both your physical and mental health.  

Regardless of whether it’s the grimy dishes that stack up in the sink or heaps of papers covering your work area, everybody knows the negative consequences of messiness in their lives. It’s not unusual or unexpected that the messiness in our actual spaces can affect our psychological wellness. As more things occupy our space, they seem to saturate our psyches and can lead to additional pressure and increased tension. It’s almost like the things take over our spaces and our lives!

When you clear out the clutter, get rid of the mess, and clean the surfaces, you will see the constructive outcomes it has on your psychological state and wellbeing. Numerous investigations have demonstrated the mental force of making your room in different aspects of your life. For your general wellbeing and joy, set aside the effort to declutter your life and begin seeing the positive changes that happen.

Individuals experience a lot of pressure from occupations, accounts, and different parts of their lives. At the point when we get back home, we need to feel like we’re entering an asylum, protected from the demands of life. Yet, does your home give a protected harbor from pressure, or is it causing you extra pressure that you probably won’t know about? On the off chance that you have a jumbled, inadequately decorated or fairly disorganized living space, unwinding at home can be difficult or even impossible. 

Here’s the reason:  Simply sitting in a jumbled room can make pressure. Regardless of whether you see it in feng shui terms as “stale chi,” in cerebral terms as an excessive amount of data for the eye to measure, or viable terms as a visual token of how much work you need to do to get your home clean, you likely definitely realize that wreck implies pressure.

The embellishment and look of the house assume a significant part in deciding the disposition of the spot. The stylistic theme of the house additionally influences the temperament of individuals living in the house, so it is imperative to focus on the stylistic theme. An attractive house is useful for disposing of nervousness and stress. Adding brightening contacts helps in expanding the allure of rooms. Rebuilding the house and adding new beautiful contacts is consistently a smart thought. There are a few purposes behind revamping the rooms. Regardless of whether you are exhausted or the plan gets obsolete, or you need to improve the estimation of a house, you ought to put resources into making upgrades.

Here are a few purposes behind rebuilding. Upgrading Sales Potential: The standpoint of the house is a significant factor for improving the estimation of a home. The outside of the home aids in establishing a decent connection. On the off chance that you are intending to sell your home, you ought to put resources into improving the outside of the house. Clean shades and new paint are superb decisions for improving the allure of the house.

Let’s face it, the endless list of house chores: taking care of things, cleaning, vacuuming, scouring dishes, dusting furniture, organizing clothes and putting items away isn’t anybody’s idea of a fun time. At that point there comes the ideal opportunity for spring cleaning when you need to eliminate abundance furniture, garbage and other undesirable family things.

There are approaches to assume responsibility for this junk expulsion yourself, which can be overwhelming, yet there are likewise experts that will do it for you.

We as a whole carry on with occupied lives, subsequently, it very well may be more down to earth to zero in on each space of the home in turn to profound clean while keeping the remainder of the house nonchalantly clean. Except if you live without anyone else, there ought to be no motivation behind why the obligation of keeping the house clean should fall exclusively on you. Get the entire family involved by giving task and additionally by making tidiness schedules, for example, putting the toilet seat down, rehanging towels and taking out the garbage.