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Although everyone’s closet storage dilemmas vary, the team at ClosetMaid® has developed eight main Closet Zones™, a systematic method of organizing your stuff for the highest level of efficiency. When your closet is clutter free, your mornings run more smoothly, giving you the right mindset to tackle the day.
Our Expert Organizer Jane
Meryl Starr, Personal Organizer, and owner of Let’s Get Organized, has been in business since 1993 and has done more than her fair share of tidying up, from humble apartments to the homes of Holly-wood celebrities. Her diverse roster of clients has ranged from Hollywood executives, leaders in Finance, Real Estate Entertainment and Fashion.
Meryl is known as one of the country’s top Organizers because she specializes in transforming people’s lives. Her clients not only get more organized, but learn to use the power & freedom that comes with being more organized. She attributes her success to her keen intuition and ability to understand her client’s needs, along with her experience and dedication to her work.
Meryl Starr teaches courses on organization in addition to lecturing and leading workshops and seminars .These programs go through the benefits of getting organized, the actual process of organization and how becoming organized can transform your life.
Since Meryl believes good organization shouldn't be a trade secret, she often shares her professional tips on television, on radio, in print, and in person. Her first book the Home Organizing Workbook is still flying off the book shelves across the country the UK and China. Her second book, The Personal Organizing Workbook has made its debut and is already selling extremely well. (See book descriptions that follow).
Meryl’s tips and ideas for home organizing have appeared in: In Style, InStyle Home, Ladies Home Journal, Seventeen, Woman’s Day Organic Style, Self, Kiplinger’s House Beautiful, Home and Garden and Real Simple magazines. She has contributed to numerous newspaper articles across the country.
Meryl won her first Telly Award for her Promo piece for her soon to be television show. In 2009, she produced another promo piece Make a change with Meryl Starr which you can see on her web site. Her television appearances included a guest spot on the Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, HGTV’s Smart Solutions, House Smarts and several national and local news programs, as well as several interviews on radio shows.
Meryl was hired by LYSOL to be their spokesperson for the Keep America Beautiful Campaign. She is a spokesperson for Soles4Souls® is a shoe charity that collects gently worn shoes and monies to provide shoes to those in need. She is also the new Organizing Jane on Bejane.com, the number one DIY home site for women.
Home Organizing Workbook: Book Description
Failing the Mary Poppins' snap-the-fingers approach to cleaning, here's the next best thing: an utterly practical handbook that offers lasting results for anyone looking to banish clutter from every room in the house. Home organizer par excellence Meryl Starr offers up her hardworking organizing solutions in The Home Organizing Workbook, a straightforward guide to getting organized. The room chapters begin with targeted questionnaires that help the reader identify specific organizational problems, followed by hundreds of hardworking solutions and strategic maintenance tips. Those itching to get started can dive right in with step-by-step organizing projects ranging from quick-and-easy weeknight jobs, like overhauling the spice cabinet, to more intensive endeavors such as reorganizing the bedroom closet. Accessory lists at the end of each chapter feature dozens of the best products available, from lazy susans to shelf dividers, and explain exactly how they can be used to optimum effect in each room, while the extensive resource list shows where to get them. It's a package as tidy as its solutions: concealed Wire-O lay-flat binding, tabbed chapters to take readers straight to their problem area du jour, and full-color, solution-oriented photographs sure to inspire action. Ready to clear that clutter and keep it that way? The Home Organizing Workbook is the ultimate guide to preserving open spaces.
Personal Organizing Workbook: Book Description
Thanks to Meryl Starr—author of the best-selling Home Organizing Workbook and go-to gal for Real Simple, InStyle, and a host of premier media outlets—organizing those buried desks, overstuffed handbags, and mysterious-yet-important papers wedged in the glove box is only a book away. The Personal Organizing Workbook teaches the fundamentals of managing time and clutter, offering tips, quizzes, and checklists to help create a personalized organization system that will really see some use (unlike that pricey PDA now gathering dust). It also outlines skills for sticky situations such as declining a post on the PTA or being honest with a time-hogging friend. Under Meryl's guidance, dreams and priorities finally get their due, old friends are seen more than once a year, and Christmas cards beat Santa to the door. And because being organized means staying organized, there's a special section dedicated to getting back on track. Packed with information, with a chic and practical concealed spiral binding and easy-reference tabbed sections, and brimming with gorgeous photography, The Personal Organizing Workbook will inspire readers to take control of their time, their stuff, and their lives.
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