The Room Whisperer Listens to a Room to Bring About Order

Professional Organizer Cyndi Seidler uses unique method to get rooms organized by communicating with the room to determine what's really ailing it.

Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) June 6, 2006 -- A cluttered, dysfunctional room is the type of room that often makes a person feel like it's shouting at them in overwhelming degrees of distress. Entering such a room is a call for help that typically is gone ignored by its inhabitants, whose only way to survive in such an environment is to try and pretend the stuff around them doesn't exist.

It's a different situation for professional organizer Cyndi Seidler. In her practice, Seidler is used to seeing cluttered spaces and has come to learn a great deal from it. As a matter of fact, she claims to listen to the room for ideas that establish a place that fits the lifestyle of the owners and to bring about order. "The room isn't yelling at me," Seidler says. "It's explaining to me what it needs."

This prompted the title as The Room Whisperer with one of her clients Jane Hill, as she watched Seidler walk around one of the rooms and nod her head, as if she was acknowledging something someone said to her.

In Seidler's first visit with Hill, she went into great detail with Seidler about how the room got the way it did and her difficulty being organized in such a mess. Hill didn't expect more than just getting rid of the stuff lying around and putting things away that she'd be keeping. However it seemed that Seidler had more in store for her.

"I always listen and observe," Seidler says. I listen to the client and I listen to the room. It's what gives me the whole story; the big picture. If the client tells me that there isn't enough storage space for all the stuff, I also observe what the room has to communicate about that, and then form my own conclusions."

She explained further, "You can walk into an untamed room and calm it down with functional organization and simple design." This philosophy was adopted by Seidler after studying interior decorating and reading how the Feng Shui of a room will affect it.

That's how Seidler concluded that the room needed to be situated differently and some of the furniture over-crowding it had to go. According to Seidler, this would work better for her client and help her keep the room organized once it was de-cluttered. This advice combines some of the principles of Feng Shui, interior decorating, and the art of organization. The room tells Seidler what works better for the client, even if the client tells her something different.

For Hill, Seidler developed function zones for Hill's family room that established a place for watching television, a reading area, and a place for desk work. With delineated areas for certain activities, it provides a place to do things, similar to having a place for belongings.

With the concept of a place for everything being carried over to a place for certain functions, it helps keep certain stuff out of certain areas. "This is just a way to entice the client not to disrupt one zone's purpose with another zone's purpose. Paper goes to the desk area, not the television or reading area. And, books stay in the reading area, not the television or desk area," Seidler explains. "It's easier than trying to get them to change old habits overnight."

Seidler used her 4 step ESAP Organizing approach to getting the room in order: 1) Empty; 2) Sort; 3) Assess; 4) Place. "When a person looks at their cluttered space, they see an overwhelming mess. I see stuff that is misplaced and junk that shouldn't be kept," says Seidler. "It all begins to look like junk when it's misplaced though."

After the room was de-cluttered, a place was established for magazines, for newspapers, for DVD media, and many other once-scattered items. Bookshelves were moved around, furniture without purpose was removed, and everything was shifted to new spots in the room.

The trick in organizing, according to Seidler, is making that space more functional to store what you have, and keeping only what you have space for. Beyond that, it's just a touch of design and beauty to make any room work.

About HandyGirl Organizers

HandyGirl Organizers was formed in 1994 by Cyndi Seidler to service individuals with organizing problems. HandyGirl Organizers delivers a full scope of organizing services for the home and office. Seidler's history enabled her company to provide the kind of knowledge and skills necessary to help people simply their life by managing it. Web site: www.handygirl.com

About Cyndi Seidler

"Organizer to the stars" Cyndi Seidler is an author, columnist and professional organizer. She's a frequent media guest, and has been helping individuals create organized lifestyles since 1994. Her methods have helped prominent celebrities such as Sinbad, Eric Roberts, Karen Black, Tisha Campbell, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Larina Adamson, Bobbi Billard, Billy Sheehan, and Spencer Davis get a grip on their hectic lifestyles. www.cyndiseidler.com

Book Title: "A Manual for Professional Organizers" publisher, Banter Books, Quality Trade Paperback, 148 pages, ISBN 0-9705125-0-3. Available at bookstores. Price $35.00.

Book Title: "Organize For Success" publisher, First Books Library, Quality Trade Paperback, 102 pages, ISBN 0759609888. Available at Amazon.com and Target stores.

DVD Title: "Get Organized with Cyndi Seidler (to be released Summer 2006)

Contact: Nicole Seidler, VP Public Relations (818) 686-8888

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