my services
REDECORATING
Want to figure out how to better configure a room in your home?
When people redecorate, they may paint walls entirely new colors or hang up new artwork. They might also hang new curtains, pull up old carpet and refinish floors, rearrange furniture, and try out new furnishings. This verb almost always applies to a home, like an apartment, house, or office. Redecorate adds the "again" prefix re- to decorate, which has the Latin root decus, "an ornament."
Rooms by Cary offers a new way to approach redecorating - by deciding how we might use your existing furniture and accessories to create a space that is functional, inviting and pleasing for your life. Whether you need a good design eye to place or rearrange furnishings in your space to helping you decide on artwork and how to hang it, I want to help you visualize and create the space you wish for. You deserve to feel comfortable in your own beautiful space.
DeclutteriNG & organizing
Do you need help getting through the clutter and creating more organization?
Before you can redecorate, sometimes you may be faced with a challenge we all have from time to time. How to get rid of old papers and unused items to make space for your new look. These moments can be very daunting, but it doesn’t have to be! Let Rooms by Cary coach you through some techniques to help the process and you will be amazed at how much lighter you feel and your space looks.
Schedule Appointment
Rooms by Cary offers a free 20-minute consultation to see if we are a good match.
I work with clients in and around the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia.
Testimonials
“Cary has been helping us in our home and she’s having a big, positive impact. I asked her to come to help redesign a room, but realized by answering her questions and talking with her that I really needed and wanted to start with decluttering and organizing. Cary has been wonderful at helping me feel like the project is doable, breaking it into simple action steps, supporting me along the way with hands-on help, researching to find just the right items when needed, checking in and being 100% understanding and encouraging. She’s professional, organized and proactive. She’s also warm and kind, which I appreciate so much as this is a very personal process. Cary is great at discovering what the specific needs are of her clients and then helping in the ways that serve them best. She also has a stellar design sense, so that all of our work is steering towards not just a more efficient space, but a lovelier space, too. I highly recommend working with Cary for helping organize, declutter, design, repurpose and generally improve your space.”
“Are you working from home and dealing with an unproductive and messy space? I needed to clean up my home office ... luckily, my friend, Cary has started conducting virtual “Rooms by Cary” sessions! She has been a great resource and cheerleader as I get my space decluttered and reorganized!”
“It’s hard to know where to start because Cary has helped me in so many ways. In my home, Cary has helped me to prioritize projects, to organize-clean-tidy or ‘cull’ and to design, decorate and repurpose.
She has also helped me with daily organization systems, my morning routine and laundry system. I was feeling so chaotic and scattered! I was on the brink of tears once and Cary was understanding and helpful in my distress. It is intense to show the insides of your house that are messy. It helped that I instantly connected with Cary because she is a compassionate animal-loving artist. She has a great eye for design and a unique perspective with practical problem solving as well as furniture layout and photography or fine art placement.
I have an ailing dog and she played a role with having him safer in the home without sacrificing design. We are all happy… Including my husband…. My living room is such a wonderful space where we want to hang out. And my basement is so beautiful and ‘zoned’ for my hobbies!
Cary empowered me to purchase things that I wanted for my home, get rid of things I didn’t need and display or repurpose things that I now love! She told me to celebrate after small projects or my organizing homework.”
“With Cary’s help, we transformed a storage closet into my jewelry studio. She had the vision and skills to make it happen. I am so happy with the result! I could not have done it without her.”
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MY WORK
Having grown up always creating things, I guess it is no surprise that I have continued to do so in my adult life. As a multi-disciplinary artist, I also enjoy using my eye for design to help my clients realize their goals for redecorating and repurposing spaces. Today we live in a fast environment, one that consumes a lot and throws away a lot, all under the label of ‘convenience’. Everything has to be convenient because we’re so busy. My goal is to focus on repurposing wherever possible with certain furnishings or accessories to be more sustainable and also keep more funds in your wallet for other life choices. Sometimes, it winds up being a hybrid situation of rethinking and repurposing and introducing some new pieces into the mix to create our new look. I will work with you as much or as little as you need. I usually try to give an estimate for the time we might need to achieve your goals after our consultation. Otherwise, I simply keep track of my time and charge by the hour.
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HOW I WORK
IT TAKES TWO
I started helping people redecorate and organize spaces after helping a friend unexpectedly one day during a summer visit to her home in New England. A new piece of furniture had arrived that just did not seem to fit where she had planned for it to be. I couldn’t help but want to jump in with my suggestions! Suddenly, we were moving different pieces around the room, trying out different configurations until we had a plan. I made suggestions and with her immediate feedback, we kept working until we got it right. We were able to rethink and repurpose that room in one afternoon and with that enthusiasm, my friend also started working on other areas of their home. That’s when I felt hooked!
I love helping people! I hope I get to help you too… :)
“I really didn’t like my room, but couldn’t picture it being much different without starting from scratch. Cary helped us use what we already had to create a space that I couldn’t have imagined. We rearranged the furniture, painted, and added some new accessories, and now I love spending time in my room. ”