As a professional organizer I’m usually helping people get rid of stuff but for this client I was buying all their stuff for the two bedroom, two bath apartment that they were moving into. It brought me back to 2014 when I was staging homes in Costa Mesa and we had to purchase everything from living room decor to bathmats.
This project was fun yet challenging because we had a tight budget, we were ordering furniture on-line, and only had one week while I was in LA to put it all together. Normally you would order something on Amazon or Wayfair and it shows up at your doorstep in a couple of days or you run into Target for a few items and be on your way. However, as we all know during Covid, it was delayed deliveries and lines that were an hour long before you even got into the store.
So this made my tight schedule a little more of a challenge. To help the situation I made sure to purchase items with the shortest delivery times and I created a shopping list for each room. From there, I broke down the room lists to each store I would need to go to and get only what was on the list. This helped me stay on track…it’s hard to go into HomeGoods and not get distracted. This also ensured that each room would be complete before I left to go back to New York.
We purchased the couch from Amazon, the bunkbed from Wayfair, the rug at HomeGoods, some accessories from WorldMarket and the bathroom decor at BedBathandBeyond. We also shopped at The Container Store for organizing items, Home Depot for the plant and get the kids bedding at Target.
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