Project Feature: Stunning Wardrobe With Limited Closet Space

April 24, 2019 Katie Savage and Brooke Levy

A collector of fine clothing goes to battle with…a small closet. This is a well known tale known by many a woman.

Maybe she has an older home from an era where large closets just weren’t built or large wardrobes didn’t exist. Maybe the home was built by someone who didn’t understand closet design. Whatever the issue, small closets and well-dressed women can be difficult combination.

But they don’t have to be.

This does, however, happen to the very issue for one of our wonderful return clients. We loved working with Lucia last fall as we helped her create functional organization systems for her closet. Her winter wardrobe was extensive and beautiful, bur it forced us to be creative and thoughtful in our design of a closet system that would actually work.

Lucia’s was a wardrobe that made us dream--beautiful pieces from around the world, reminiscent of places and people we only usually spy in magazine layouts or online brochures.

Katie and I were thrilled when Lucia reached out to us recently to help her shift her clothing from her fall and winter wardrobe to her spring and summer clothes. Her closet is well laid out in terms of space, it’s just a smaller closet than many we often see in the Memphis area. And it is a very small closet for a woman with as expansive of wardrobe as Lucia’s.

How to Start a Business Doing What You Love, Part 1

April 17, 2019 Katie Savage and Brooke Levy

Many people just know, from an early age, that someday they will start a business. They have a plan. They are determined. And they know exactly how it will unfold.

This wasn’t the case for Katie and me.

In fact, neither of us ever envisioned starting our own business, let alone start a business doing something we enjoyed doing for fun—with one of our closest friends.

Katie and I are often asked about the start of Blue Pencil Home and what we wish we knew before beginning. For today’s post, we share just this.

Today is the first of a three-part series about Blue Pencil Home’s business beginnings. We’ll share how and when we knew we had a real business idea and all about our first steps in forming Blue Pencil Home. Next month we’ll share more behind the scenes details such as what we wished we’d known before starting and the amazing people who’ve been integral in our work. We can’t stress enough how much we’ve been supported by many people. In June, we’ll wrap up our series with our biggest successes and the major obstacles we’ve overcome in starting our organization and decluttering business.

Our Favorite Closet Organizing Pieces From Amazon

April 10, 2019 Katie Savage and Brooke Levy

I’m a glutton for punishment. I read every single article that Buzzfeed publishes listing the “25 Organizing Products That Will Change Your Life” or “You Can’t Go Another Day Without These Organizing Tools” or “How to Have the Closet of Your Dreams.”

Maybe I’m not alone in this?

I hate to break it to you, but the truth is—most of these articles are garbage.

They promise a quick fix that doesn’t take any time and doesn’t require any thought. Sounds pretty miraculous to me. On the other hand, after Katie and I have helped our clients organize their most difficult areas, I can tell you that real change comes through three simple actions:

Behind the Scenes: Meet Turner, Karen and Ashley!

March 27, 2019 Katie Savage and Brooke Levy

A mother with a task list and a set amount of time is a force with which to be reckoned! And no one knows how to manage projects and time better than a team of five mothers with fifteen children between them.

Talk about a force!

In recent months, the faces of Blue Pencil Home have changed and grown and with this, our enthusiasm about the new changes has grown, as well. Katie and I are thrilled to introduce you to these women today.

We can all agree that flexibility, a sense of humor, and a desire to work efficiently make organization and decluttering much more effective. Fortunately, our three new organizers, Turner, Karen, and Ashley, have these characteristics in spades!

Katie and I are thrilled to introduce you to these women today.