Organizing With Intention & Heart
About Simplicity Design
Simplicity Design’s holistic and collaborative approach puts you at the center of our work. We understand the complexities of organizing spaces, parting ways with sentimental items, and how our living spaces can affect all areas of our lives.
When you choose to work with Simplicity Design, you’re choosing a team who will help you organize your life while teaching skills to simplify your surroundings and keep it tidy.
Meet the Simplicity Squad
Rebecca R. Schaeffer
In 2018, Rebecca founded Simplicity Design with a mission to help others organize and simplify their lives. After losing her mother to cancer and being left to sort through her mother’s belongings on a solo project, she learned how difficult the emotional turmoil can be when left with such a soul-transforming task.
This difficult journey taught her how much she enjoys teaching people organizational skills and habits – particularly people who have struggled with chronic organization obstacles their entire lives. Rebecca currently enjoys longer projects throughout multiple areas of your home.
Organization is a learned skill, and with time and practice, we can all strengthen this skill. Maintaining an organized home is like keeping the dishes clean – it’s better to do a little at a time so you aren’t faced with an overwhelming and time-consuming task in a few days.
“Rebecca is so kind and easy to work with. There is no judging or shaming! Rebecca has taught me that choosing those things which bring me joy and putting them on display in my home really makes my spirit feel happy.”
Amanda
Amanda is a professional organizer who never meets an organizing project she isn't ready to tackle. She believes we all function better and lead happier lives when everything has a space. She thrives at creating systems that reduce clutter, maximize productivity, and relieve stress for the whole family. She has experience organizing every area in the house, including kitchens and pantries, closets, offices, garages, and playrooms. She especially enjoys working with young children to help them create core organization skills and habits.
Amanda’s talent for organizing was evident during her childhood, when she would methodically sort toys at friends’ houses. As an adult, she has always loved tidying and arranging spaces. Her friends constantly mentioned her natural gift for organizing, so she decided to apply her passion and talent to helping others. As a professional organizer, Amanda uses her skills to help others create spaces that support their lifestyle. For her, organizing is fun!
“Amanda is so easy to work with. She helped restore order to my house. I highly recommend her services.”
Lee
Lee brings a calming sense of patience to her organizing and design work. She understands the difficulties of surrendering sentimental items, downsizing in later stages of life, and the time commitment it often takes for adult children helping their parents re-organize their living spaces.
One of Lee’s greatest influences in life has been her grandfather — a military veteran who helped Lee learn the value of keeping a clean and organized home for those she cares most about in life. The tidy lessons her grandfather taught her have helped her create neat and organized living spaces for her clients and their families.
Lee enjoys working with a variety of people, but she’s partial to working with younger children and those enjoying their golden years. Kitchens are her favorite rooms to organize, as she recognizes the kitchen is not only a well-used area, but it is also a place for gathering to create and share cherished memories.
“Lee is an amazing organizer and has drastically changed our lives in so many ways. I’m no longer stressed walking through the door when coming home.”
Marianna
After 15 years in Boston, Marianna recently moved back to the NC Triangle and joined the Simplicity Squad. Once a data organizer for a corporate company, Marianna has always enjoyed cleaning and organizing spaces to help others be able to access their belongings without the chaos.
Marianna’s holistic approach of talking with her clients, understanding their goals, and creating an organization plan for her clients has helped transform homes and living spaces to clutter-free sanctuaries. Helping young families organize their homes is one of Marianna’s favorite types of projects, but she is up for any challenge to help you organize and simplify your life.
Danielle
Danielle joined the Simplicity Squad to help others organize not only their physical spaces, but also the cluttered spaces within their mind. As she’s currently in a Master’s program to be a counselor, she understands how compiling a list of organizing tasks can take over the brain’s ability to function efficiently and with ease. When our homes and living spaces become unorganized and difficult to navigate, so can our emotions and mental health.
Task paralysis – the difficulty in choosing which task to tackle first – is a common symptom of ADHD, a specialty Danielle works with in her organizing projects. When you work with Danielle, she listens to what you’re struggling to organize, why it’s difficult for you, and creates a strategy for tackling these projects. She will also help you organize your sanctuary to best suit you and your lifestyle, so you can live in a more organized world – in your home and in your mental processes.
“Danielle is kind and enthusiastic. Her background makes her a great fit for the neurospicy like me. She had some great ideas for how to better organize my room.”