Each member of our family now has space to think, create, work, play, express and be. I am more connected to and able to honour my true preferences… I love that I’ve found joy in perfect imperfection.

With Caroline’s guidance, I’ve found inventive ways of rearranging rooms to be more useful, practical, multifunctional, and also a true reflection of the inhabitants. After working with Caroline, she’s helped me make the dream of an authentic home a reality. Thank you Caroline.

Together they plotted a plan and worked and worked from one end of the house to the other. It wasn’t cheap and it was hard work but somehow it also wasn’t painful or at least not very.

But the real surprise was the transformation of the inhabitant. She once again became sentient. She felt perhaps it was okay to open her door outward, not only to let others in but to step out herself. After all there is more to life than stuff she thought. But it all became better because she herself finally had room to think in. The house became light and friendly, and the inhabitants lived happily ever after (so far).

But making that first communication was probably the hardest bit. By that time my liveable areas had shrunk so much around me that I was in fear of disappearing myself.

Just the idea of anyone entering my home was unnerving, it was embarrassing, humiliating, actually terrifying. However that first step of contacting Caroline was the very hardest part.

Once hired Caroline will carry the burden of all of your scary house bits so you can gather your thoughts to help plot a route to tidiness. The bad news is that you have to be there throughout it all.  There is no way anyone but you can make the decisions that are needed.  All the way to the end Caroline would always (and still does) ask if she could open a drawer, look in pockets, read bits of paper.   She made phone calls for me.  She helped me re-home loved possessions I no longer needed or used. We recycled, binned and even composted.  She helped me find all of the right people for any work that needed doing.

Because she is paid in pounds not possessions she has no attachment to her clients things. That way there is never any doubt to her impartial views of where my excess things
end up.

She kept me moving ever onward towards our goals.  Although it’s the results that count, having a nice journey through my oh so ever overwhelming mess of a house has even made some lovely memories.

I now live in a completely different house.  Its transformation can’t be exaggerated.  And it has actually had a knock-on effect to the rest of my life.  For the first time in decades  I have others inside to visit and I go outside daily myself.   So when I say my whole life has changed, that’s not putting it too strongly.

In fact Caroline did such a good job she is seldom needed any longer. Whether you hire her to go through your whole house or just a kitchen, bedroom, storage area or office makes no difference.  Decluttering has a lasting affect unlike just cleaning and rearranging piles of stuff.

Once you’ve experienced living in an ordered environment you will feel a freedom more than you ever thought possible.

It turned out to be a good decision. She made it really easy for me to talk with her about the process, to get started, and to go at the right pace for me. And if you’re going to spend an afternoon considering dusty old posters and busted camping gear, I can’t think of a better person to do it with. It’s like pulling a few logs out of a stream, I’m now `getting round to’ other flat things too and I have Caroline to thank.

I am writing this from a space I now love that fills me with air, light, and motivation. I am doing the finishing touches and will send you photo of the finished product. You are born to this work, you do it skilfully and with sensitivity, warmth and levity. I am grateful for your time yesterday, it has been a catalyst for my moving forward in my creativity and in my career. Thank you.

Caroline assured me she wouldn’t throw anything away, that I would be in charge, and that the process would be collaborative, which it was.  Caroline was wonderful at making it fun and focused, and being there when difficult emotions came up.  With her support I cleared a lot, and the move with my partner was much easier as a result.  I really wanted techniques so I wouldn’t amass things again.  Caroline helped me to see how some of my personality traits needed altering to prevent things mounting up. Of course changes in personality take time, and some habits have been harder to shift than others, but many things have stuck; I tend to know where everything is now and many areas of my living space are cluttter free.

I would highly recommend Caroline, and am very glad I gave myself the gift.

I was desperate…I knew couldn’t go on like this.

I’d read about specialist “Clutter Clearers”, so one day I Googled…and found “Room to Think”.

You immediately put me at my ease over the phone when I contacted you, and came to visit (only the third person I’d allowed over the threshold in more than a year – such was my shame as to the state of the flat!). There was no intimation of judgment from you – just a warmth, and solid, practical advice and support. With your patient and professional help, the paperwork mountain finally got addressed and sorted or shredded, numerous bin bags were filled, unwanted presents redistributed or discarded, and shed. Loads of those “rainy day” items got sent to charity shops or were given away…I began to get a grip, and with your encouragement, felt able to make decisions as to what to keep or chuck, which had previously felt impossible, and paralysing… and, most importantly, started to enjoy my place once more!

I wanted to write to you, as, on Sunday I had a lunch party, and my home was filled with friends, food and laughter again (something that had seemed so unattainable before I chanced upon your website, but had craved for so long). Last week I completed my Tax Return in record time, (because I knew where all my statements and accounts were), and my bedroom is clear, clean and welcoming for the first time in 6 years…so, who knows what the next few months may hold?

Feel free to use this on your website – I hope that anyone who needs reassurance or that extra “oompf” to pick up the phone, to start to make really positive changes in their life and de-clutter, however scary that may be, that they take the opportunity of working with you. You’re a star, and I can’t thank you enough, Caroline.

Best,

Katie S