We’ll establish bins for donating and discarding (Tartan will provide these temporary bins). We gladly take one carload of donations, trash, and recycling per day. We have a running list of great local organizations where we take your donations.

We’ll collect the contents of the bins at the end of the project.

We will sort your categories into groups, and in many cases, sub-groups within that. We’ll use existing spaces to lay out items for review and supplement with our own tables if needed.

We do a light cleaning of spaces before items are replaced.

If requested, we will go through categories with you to review what should stay and what should go. We highly, highly recommend this process, even if you’ve recently done a purge.

A decision-maker will need to be on site or reachable by phone for this portion. For multi-day projects, we can leave this as “homework” per client’s request.

Tartan will design a layout for each area that will best optimize space and establish specific homes for every category.

We’ll source organizing products (and quality check them upon arrival), if needed.

Finally, we’ll place your items in their new, permanent homes.

Finishing touches vary based on the project and your aesthetic preferences, but can include:

• Neatly folding, hanging, and placing all items.

• Sorting of items within categories as appropriate.

• Wrapping loose cords to tidy up electronics.

• Placing felt pads on heavy appliances for easier movement.

• Arranging product labels to face the front for better visibility.

• Turning all bottle heads to face the same direction (it makes a surprising visual impact).

  Color sort ing when and where it makes sense, but we always group first by whatever makes the most sense functionality-wise.

• Label where appropriate.

• A walk through with you to show the layout of the fresh space.