Decorating for the Holidays – A Client Experience

Decorating for the holidays can be fun! But it can be a big project. It all depends on how much you decorate.

Are you a go-all-out-with-7-trees kind of person?

Do you bake until the cows come home?

Does the outside of your house glow?

That's all great! But a big project that may require a team to get it done.

Even though we preach living simply, the holidays are a time when many people pull out all the stops. We also love to decorate and bake and purchase (thoughtfully procured) gifts for loved ones too. So we are in the same camp here.?Let’s celebrate!?But what to do when the idea of pulling it all out is overwhelming? You call your friendly Basic Organization team to help. What’s the difference between working with organizing professionals as opposed to a decorator to do your holiday decorating? Glad you asked. We are organized!

I’d like to highlight the benefits of working with us to decorate for the holidays with a client story.

The Beginning

Our client “Holly” invites us into her home every year to help set the stage for a winter wonderland over the holidays. She loves Christmas decorations! I mean?LOVES?them. She has such beautiful things and we enjoy helping her create the holiday spirit in her home. She has everything needed to fill it with a wonderful array of holiday surprises. The first difference between working with a decorator vs an organizer for the holidays is we don’t suggest any purchases. We work with what you have. We’d like to think that we are creative but a decorator will beat us out on this point. If you need help creating your vision then work with a decorator.

We are a perfect fit for Holly because she has everything needed. She just needs more hands to get the job done in an orderly, organized fashion.

The Middle

Holly enjoys arranging her holiday decor by collections. I believe this highlights the uniqueness of each piece. She has a collection of Santas and a wonderful Christmas village. But wait until you see the beautiful decorations on the loft railing!?AMAZING!?But her largest collection is by far her many Christmas trees of various shapes, sizes, and materials. Bring these out for display really creates a wonderland effect all over the house. Lucky Holly has no little ones with sticky fingers that would touch (or break) anything. Crazy enough, her dogs don’t seem to notice any of the holiday bling.

The second difference between working with a decorator vs an organizer is??WE ARE SUPER ORGANIZED. This decorating day is a true testament to how being organized makes things like “projects” run more smoothly. It just makes things easier! It also makes a project like this faster to complete.

We start the decorating day in the storage room, with a short discussion amongst the team of who’s responsible for what. Just carrying all the bins upstairs is time-consuming, but with the team in action mode, it doesn’t take much time. Before she knows it, Holly is knee-deep in Christmas decor and making decisions on how her collections will be displayed each year. We unbox and unwrap everything and make sure that all the bins get back into the storage room.

As the saying goes, ‘Many hands make light work”.

The End

Of course, to be organized means that you must?finish what you start . This means that we revisit this client in January to put it all away. Everything is reboxed in the correctly LABELED containers and rehomed on the shelves in the storage room. Last year we even organized the shelves! Now the shelves house the decor from a specific room of the house. This year it will be easier for the team to locate what goes where!

If you need help creating your own Winter Wonderland this holiday, give us a call. We can help you set the stage, quickly and simply with an organized holiday decorating day!

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