Why I don’t solve problems when I organize homes

When I walk into a client’s home, I don’t start by asking what’s wrong.

I don’t ask:
“What’s not working?”
“What’s driving you crazy?”
“What do you want me to fix?”

Not because I don’t care — but because solving problems almost never leads to the life someone wants.

Instead, I ask:
“What do you want to do in this space?”
“How do you see yourself using it when it’s working the way you intended?”

Then I look around.

Where things land tells me everything:
how decisions are made,
where energy flows,
what’s intuitive, and
what isn’t supporting you anymore.

I don’t solve problems.
I resolve them.

When you redesign a space around who someone is and what they want, most of the problems they thought I’d need to solve… simply disappear.

Because the issue was never the clutter.
Or the system.
Or the stuff.

The issue was misalignment — a space that didn’t match their life.

I don’t organize for the organizer.
I organize for you.

And when a space is built around who you are, not who you think you should be…
problems resolve themselves.