This bedroom makeover was highlighted in The Washington
Post Home Section, in a feature called "House Calls."
As written by Jura Koncius of The Washington
Post:
"So we brought in a professional organizer to
help straighten things out. Scott Roewer of Solutions
by Scott paid a visit to Maureen's room, then returned
days later with an arsenal of organizing tools and
a can-do attitude. He and Maureen spent five hours
sorting through almost everything in the room into
piles labeled keep, toss and donate. "Okay, when
was the last time you looked at this?" Roewer
asked, holding up a large SpongeBob doll. Into the
donate pile.
Roewer guided Maureen through the process of making
decisions, putting like items together, adding baskets
and bins to hold hair ribbons and craft supplies and
making sure daily necessities were front and center,
with once-in-a-while stuff elsewhere.
"We don't expect her room to look like the Pottery
Barn Teen catalogue," he says. "Of course
she will kick her flip-flops off when she walks in,
and she might leave them there for days. But we can
help her set up systems to hopefully have a place
for all her stuff if she wants to put it there."