Clarity
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Maybe you are sorting through a parent’s belongings. Maybe you are downsizing before your children have to face it someday. Maybe life shifted quietly, and the rooms no longer match who you are becoming.
Nothing is falling apart. It just feels stuck.
I help people clear and reshape their homes during transition so that what remains reflects what is true now and supports what comes next.
We begin by looking at how the house is actually functioning. From there, we decide what stays, what goes, and how the space needs to shift. The work is steady, structured, and practical — and it moves.
Most of the people who call me are in the middle of something.
They are helping aging parents downsize or settle estates.
They are stepping into midlife and realizing the house still reflects a previous version of themselves.
They are preparing to sell or finally settle in and do not know what to preserve and what to let go.
They are starting over with no clear sense of what they like anymore or where anything belongs.
They are inheriting possessions layered with history and responsibility.
They are capable. They are thoughtful. They are simply too close to it to see clearly.
That is where I step in.
I work in focused blocks of time and usually four to eight hours, so we can move meaningfully without rushing. We create change in batches, then allow space to see how the shifts are living before moving again.
Homes are not static. They change with seasons, with children growing, with parents aging, with life expanding and contracting. Organization that ignores this rarely holds.
Instead of installing systems and disappearing, I return. We recalibrate what has drifted, refine what is working, and let the space evolve alongside you.
This is individualized work. I maintain a limited roster of clients so the work can remain steady and relational. When space opens, it is offered intentionally.
If this feels aligned, you are welcome to reach out.
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TRANSITION PARTNERSHIP
Structured support over time for layered homes and larger transitions. We work in steady phases, creating momentum, adjusting as the space evolves, and ensuring changes hold instead of slipping back.
Karen
MEET KAREN
SPACE MAKER • LIFESTYLE TRANSFORMATION SPECIALIST
Clearing the Heir did not begin as a business plan; it began with loss.
Right after September 11, 2001, my father died unexpectedly, and the next day my divorce was finalized. I moved back to Northern Virginia to help my mother and start over, and everything in my life pointed home.
Over the next decade, I helped my mother, my father’s mother, and my mother’s mother downsize homes they had lived in for more than fifty years. We went through everything, including their belongings and the belongings they had inherited from their own parents, sorting through layers of what had been preserved, avoided, and quietly carried.
“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep love and concern. Beautiful people don’t just happen.”
~ Elisabeth Kubler-Ross ~
Clients
TESTIMONIALS
"Karen is fabulous at organizing, staging, and decorating. She was invaluable in my families effort to get our house ready to go on the market. She did everything from cleaning out, to painting, to delivering things to charity. It seemed like no project was too big for her. She was great at asking questions and arranging things to work for our family. Karen gave us great ideas that we will utilize in our next house too. Her fees are very reasonably for the peace of mind that her services offer. It feels great to finally be organized! Thanks Karen"
Crystal C | Ready to Move
