Our team is committed to providing excellent customer service to our clients and their families as they go through what can be a very trying time of transition. We pride ourselves on helping families through the rightsizing and relocation process start to finish. Along the way, we often hold their hands, answer questions, and maybe even shed some tears or have a good laugh. Our number one goal is always to make the transition as easy as possible, and to remove as much of the stress as we can.
How we can help you
Sometimes, your STUFF can be a little overwhelming. Whether you are de-cluttering your current home, planning to downsize and move, or emptying out a loved ones’ home, we can help.
Changing Spaces SRS helps you sort through the belongings in your home, make decisions about what to keep and what to release, and manages all the details along the way. If you are moving, we provide all the boxes and packing materials, and we do all the packing. We also manage all the details and logistics of move day, and we unpack and organize all your belongings once you are in your new home. We can also organize and run an estate sale to find new homes for the items you no longer need, use or love.
Call us to set up a free in-home consultation where we will further explain our services, acquaint ourselves with your situation, and develop a personalized plan to help make your move easy.
They are a member of the National Association of Senior Move Managers (NASMM), we are proud to have the designation of a member of their Circle of Service Diamond Society, which is a special designation reserved for senior move managers who have been providing a high level of service to clients for 10 years or more. We are delighted to be honored in this way.
In August 2019, they received the Lincoln Chamber of Commerce Small Business of the Year award! This award is intended to honor a business which best exemplifies the spirit of free enterprise in Lincoln. We are so honored to receive this award and to be a part of this wonderful community!
Here are some of the services that they provide:
What is Rightsizing?
Rightsizing is finding that place between too much and too little in your life. Changing Spaces SRS can assist you in finding that place while you prepare for a move, or even if you plan to stay in your current home. Our goal is to assist you with the process of clearing out items that you no longer use or love in your home, and find a way to keep those items that are near and dear to your heart. By clearing out the excess, there is more room to display and enjoy those items that bring you happiness.
Sorting
Whether you are preparing for a move or simply wish to rightsize the belongings in your current home, Changing Spaces SRS can provide the physical, emotional, and logistical help needed to tackle the sorting process in your home, room by room. We can help you determine which items you wish to keep, which should be donated or sold, and which items can be disposed of or recycled.
Packing
We can assess your new home and create a customized floorplan, helping you determine which furniture pieces will fit best in your new home. We will then carefully and efficiently pack all items being moved, providing all boxes and packing material, labeling each box clearly. We also take care of making arrangements with a moving company on your behalf.
Managing Move Day
Move day is a big deal! We are there by your side, from start to finish. We arrive early that morning before the truck pulls in to do any last-minute tasks that need to be done – including taking sheets off the bed, emptying the refrigerator and freezer into a cooler, and packing any last-minute items like your toothbrush and the coffee pot. Once the movers have loaded everything onto the truck, we follow right behind on the way to your new home, so that we can direct them where everything should go in the new place.
We ensure that all furniture is placed where you want it, and we begin unpacking boxes as soon as they come in the door. We ensure that our client has all the essentials unpacked that very first night in their new home so they can be comfortable – that means their bed is made, they’ve got clothes in their closet, food in their fridge, and their toiletries are organized in their bathroom.
Unpacking
While the essentials are unpacked on moving day, we will return the following day to complete the unpacking, for things such as books, artwork, and décor. We also remove all the boxes and packing materials on this day, leaving your new home organized and box-free.
Estate Sales & Online Auctions
The online auctions started when COVID-19 hit and many things were put on hold or you went to the internet for services. When clients have a large number of items they no longer need, use or want, Changing Spaces SRS can help find new homes for those items. We assist clients who need to empty out homes in one of two ways – in person estate sales (or “tag sales”) and online auctions. Having a sale with Changing Spaces SRS is a stress-free and work-free solution to emptying out a home.
After a free in-home consultation, our team will recommend which type of sale would work best for your situation. We take pride in our sales, ensuring that items are set up and displayed in attractive ways. Changing Spaces SRS provides professional organization, set-up, and research for each item in your home—all the way from the fanciest piece of antique furniture, down to the napkin rings and Tupperware. Beyond our own pricing expertise, we also work with a well-respected local appraiser to ensure that our clients get the best price for their items.
We have a team of 25 team members, giving us the ability set-up and run even the largest of sales, while still maintaining proper staffing and supervision of the home before and during the sale. We have developed quite a following during our twelve years of service, resulting in over 9,000 people that have requested to receive our regular notifications, emails, and postcards. In addition to our mailing list of regular customers, Changing Spaces SRS also uses every available resource to market our sales and get shoppers through the door.
We extensively photograph all our sales, posting those albums on Facebook and our website so shoppers can see what is available. We also post ads online, in the Lincoln Journal Star, and place signs at the major intersections to catch drive-by traffic. These marketing efforts result in an average of 1,500+ shoppers on any given weekend, further ensuring a successful sale for our clients. After the sale concludes, our clients receive a final accounting sheet, including a typed list of the items sold, and a check for their portion of the proceeds. In the span of a few short days, Changing Spaces SRS provides complete management of a sale from start to finish!
Jeannine asked us to think about 50 things we could throw out. Using a list of ten categories we needed to clear out just 5 items we could rid our home of because we would never even miss them. The ten categories are: Books/Magazines, clothing, kitchen utensils/gadgets, knick knacks, holiday décor, paperwork/mail, pantry/food items (outdated), garage items, “Keepsake items” – photos, greeting cards, and toiletry items. Do you think you can get rid of 50 things you really wouldn’t miss?
