Home organizing before and after across Dallas

Drag any slider below to see the room as we found it and as we left it. Then 15 more finished spaces across Dallas-Fort Worth, each with the constraint we were working against and the decision that solved it, because the photograph alone never tells you which part was hard.

Closet drawer with precisely folded clothing separated into compartments

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Every one of these is the same room photographed twice. Drag the handle across any of them.

After: the kitchen once we finished
Before: the kitchen as we found it
Kitchen A whole kitchen unpacked and put away in a day. The counters are the measure of it: everything on them at the start had no home yet, and everything has one now.
After: the garage once we finished
Before: the garage as we found it
Garage Shelving first, then bins, then labels. Garages fail in that order too — a labeled bin on the floor is still on the floor.
After: the playroom once we finished
Before: the playroom as we found it
Playroom Open bins at child height, sorted by play type rather than by toy. A four-year-old cannot read a label but can absolutely learn where the blocks live.
After: the pantry once we finished
Before: the pantry as we found it
Pantry Decanted where it earns its keep and left in packaging where it does not. Cereal and flour move; tins stay in their cans and get grouped instead.
After: the primary closet once we finished
Before: the primary closet as we found it
Primary closet Same rails, same shelves, nothing bought. The gain is space between garments, which is what makes a closet readable at seven in the morning.
After: the bathroom once we finished
Before: the bathroom as we found it
Bathroom Backstock moved up and out of the daily reach zone. Everything at eye height is something used this week; the rest lives in the lidded baskets above.
After: the closet once we finished
Before: the closet as we found it
Closet Zoned by category first and by color within the category. Colour alone photographs well and collapses in a week.
After: the closet once we finished
Before: the closet as we found it
Closet The floor was the storage. Everything on it either went up onto a rail, into a drawer unit, or out of the house.
After: the closet once we finished
Before: the closet as we found it
Closet Shoes off the floor and onto the shelves they were already sitting under. Height is almost always the unused resource in a closet.
After: the closet once we finished
Before: the closet as we found it
Closet Matching hangers do a disproportionate amount of the visual work here, and cost a fraction of new millwork.
After: the closet once we finished
Before: the closet as we found it
Closet Graded by color within each garment type, so a shirt has one obvious place to go back to rather than a general area.
After: the kids' closet once we finished
Before: the kids' closet as we found it
Kids' closet Sorted by size and by type, because a child's closet is half clothes that fit and half clothes that will.
After: the kids' closet once we finished
Before: the kids' closet as we found it
Kids' closet Fabric drawers under the hanging, at the height the child can actually reach. A system an adult has to operate is not a system.
After: the garage once we finished
Before: the garage as we found it
Garage Holiday storage by occasion, labeled on the end that faces out. The label nobody can read from the doorway is decoration.
After: the garage once we finished
Before: the garage as we found it
Garage Wall and ceiling before floor. Bikes and equipment hung, bins shelved, and a garage you can park in again.
After: the bathroom once we finished
Before: the bathroom as we found it
Bathroom Medicines sorted into labeled clear bins so the category is readable from the front. Nobody digs through a bin in the dark at 2am.
After: the home office once we finished
Before: the home office as we found it
Home office A working desk again. Paperwork was the volume problem, so it was sorted and shelved rather than contained on the surface.
After: the pantry once we finished
Before: the pantry as we found it
Pantry An empty new-build pantry set up from scratch before the family moved in — zoned first, so the first shop lands somewhere rather than anywhere.

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Pantry organizing

Pantries are the most requested space in our new-build markets, and the most commonly over-bought. Containment should follow what the family actually eats, which is why we sort before purchasing anything.

  • Pantry shelves with labeled bins grouped into food categories
    Labeled bins by category, with labels facing out at eye height. The label is for the person who didn't build the system: a partner, a teenager, a grandparent staying for a week.

Bathroom organizing

Bathrooms are small, wet, and shared, which is a hard combination. The goal is almost always fewer things on the counter and a defined home for the daily rotation.

  • Clear bathroom counters after a professional organizing session
    Clear counters, achieved by editing rather than by relocating clutter into a cabinet. Everything on the counter before this belonged to a routine nobody follows any more.
  • Bathroom cabinet organized into zones with contained products
    Under-sink zoning around the plumbing rather than pretending it isn't there. Shallow bins at the front, height-restricted storage behind the trap.
Map of Dallas-Fort Worth marking the fifteen areas Messy Buns Organized Spaces serves, from Colleyville and Westlake in the west to McKinney and Garland in the east, and north to Prosper
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Ashley and Randi are amazing!!! This company went above and beyond in helping my family and I not only unpack but put everything away and organized beautifully. I highly recommend them for any of your unpacking and organizing needs.

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Ashley is great! I had a big job for her: in addition to packing for my move, she helped me declutter and get better organized. I highly recommend her!

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Thank you Messy Buns for bringing my office to life! You made the stress of moving and having to unpack so much easier. My home feels like a home already! You cleared the tornado in my office and organized two closest! You can tell you live what you do!

Journay W. Google review

Organized our garage very well.

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Absolutely amazing service. Ashley accomplished more in 12 hours than I could have done in 72 hours. I am now looking for other projects for Messy Buns!

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Andy S. Google review

The messy buns girls are amazing! They tackled our horribly messy garage and got it into amazing shape in one day! I was so excited I asked them back to organize our master bath and it's absolutely perfect! I can't wait to have Ashley come back and do my kitchen, pantry and laundry room! She really is AMAZING!

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Ashley and her team were great to work with! She helped us unpack after our move and made the transition so smooth. She is incredibly professional and efficient. My dad was so impressed that he wants to hire her for quarterly organizing.

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