Solve My Space https://solvemyspace.com/ Chaos counseling for your home Sat, 23 Apr 2022 05:17:17 +0000 en-CA hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://solvemyspace.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/cropped-SolveMySpace_favicon-32x32.png Solve My Space https://solvemyspace.com/ 32 32 129313491 HGTV: Is Home Your Happy Place? Here’s How to Organize Your Home to Support Mental Wellness https://solvemyspace.com/hgtv-is-home-your-happy-place-heres-how-to-organize-your-home-to-support-mental-wellness/ Fri, 16 Apr 2021 13:23:00 +0000 https://solvemyspace.com/?p=52190 The post HGTV: Is Home Your Happy Place? Here’s How to Organize Your Home to Support Mental Wellness appeared first on Solve My Space.

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Home Organization Insights to Support Your Mental Wellness

Is Home Your Happy Place? Here’s How to Organize Your Home to Support Mental Wellness

“When our homes feel good, we feel good.” For professional organizer and chaos counselor Tinka Markham Piper and interior designer and DIY expert Maca Atencio, home environment is key to well-being. Factors like clutter (or lack of), design, plants and even lighting can have a big impact on our mood and overall wellness — especially as we all are spending more time at home. With this in mind, the Montreal-based duo (you can check out Tinka’s whimsical space here or step into Maca’s eco-conscious home here) is sharing their tips for setting up your living space to support your best life. From creating multi-functional spaces to organizing kids’ areas in playful (and practical) ways to making work-from-home days a little brighter, Maca and Tinka’s tips just may unlock a happier home. Bonus: check out the video for this calm yet functional space. https://www.hgtv.ca/home-tours/photos/how-to-organize-home-support-mental-wellness-1947446/

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]]> 52190 Apartment Therapy: A Chaos Counselor Lives in a Bright and Colorfully Renovated Home https://solvemyspace.com/apartment-therapy-a-chaos-counselor-lives-in-a-bright-and-colorfully-renovated-home/ Thu, 15 Apr 2021 16:40:43 +0000 https://solvemyspace.com/2017/?p=51805 The post Apartment Therapy: A Chaos Counselor Lives in a Bright and Colorfully Renovated Home appeared first on Solve My Space.

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Read About a Chaos Counselor Living in a Bright and Colorful Home

Apartment Therapy: A Chaos Counselor Lives in a Bright and Colorfully Renovated Home

https://www.apartmenttherapy.com/professional-organizer-colorful-home-tour-266534

Here is an extra tidy version of our home for the “House Tours” of Apartment Therapy.  A heartfelt thank you to Marie-Lyne Quirion for her wonderful photographs.

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]]> 51805 HGTV: How a Minimalist and Maximalist Compromised in This Whimsical Montreal Home https://solvemyspace.com/how-a-minimalist-and-maximalist-compromised-in-this-whimsical-montreal-home/ Thu, 15 Apr 2021 01:47:51 +0000 https://solvemyspace.com/2017/?p=51819 The post HGTV: How a Minimalist and Maximalist Compromised in This Whimsical Montreal Home appeared first on Solve My Space.

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How a Minimalist and Maximalist Compromised in This Whimsical Montreal Home

HGTV: How a Minimalist and Maximalist Compromised SEO Title: HGTV: Minimalist and Maximalist Compromised – Solve My Space Tinka lives with her husband, a McGill University professor, and two children in a luminous, Scandinavian-inspired house in the Plateau. But transforming the former quadruplex, built in 1893, into a family home was no simple task. https://www.hgtv.ca/home-tours/photos/minimalist-and-maximalist-compromised-in-this-whimsical-montreal-home-1926029/

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]]> 51819 Via Capitale: Meet Tinka Markham Piper, chaos consultant https://solvemyspace.com/via-capitale-meet-tinka-markham-piper-chaos-consultant/ Mon, 12 Apr 2021 13:34:58 +0000 https://solvemyspace.com/?p=52198 The post Via Capitale: Meet Tinka Markham Piper, chaos consultant appeared first on Solve My Space.

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Read About Tinka Markham Piper’s Work as a Chaos Consultant

Is Home Your Happy Place? Here’s How to Organize Your Home to Support Mental Wellness

In a recent article, we discussed solutions for keeping a healthy home in times of confinement. It is in the same spirit that we are sharing with you today a piece on Tinka Markham Piper, “chaos consultant” and founder of Solve My Space.

Tinka Markham Piper has her own way of approaching interior design. Indeed, her work is similar to that of a life coach, in that her primary goal is to ensure the physical and mental well-being of her clients in their environment.

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]]> 52198 La Presse https://solvemyspace.com/la-presse/ Sun, 11 Apr 2021 22:03:15 +0000 https://solvemyspace.com/2017/?p=51688 Would you dare to choose bright, almost fluorescent colors for your decor? Bold as a choice! Check out how two other homeowners in addition to myself show how bright colors can bring a lot of character and warmth to a home.

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]]> 51688 Mentorship Spotlight with Shira Gill https://solvemyspace.com/mentorship-spotlight-with-shira-gill/ Sat, 10 Apr 2021 18:01:00 +0000 https://solvemyspace.com/?p=52293 The post Mentorship Spotlight with Shira Gill appeared first on Solve My Space.

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Article Detailing Tinka Markham Piper’s Decluttering Service

Is Home Your Happy Place? Here’s How to Organize Your Home to Support Mental Wellness

I’m back, and I’m so excited to share another success story from the Business Mentorship Program with you! Tinka Markham Piper is based in Montreal, Canada, and has a true gift for helping people transform, and redesign, their living spaces. She’s a triple threat (part organizer, part designer, and part life coach), and she has a brilliant eye for color and spacial planning. She is innovative, creative, and generous (she offered free virtual space makeover consults to people all over the world at the start of the global pandemic when everyone was stuck at home, and the results were incredible). Shiragill.com

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]]> 52293 Déco Thérapie Podcast: Ménage de printemps & d’organization https://solvemyspace.com/deco-therapie-podcast-menage-de-printemps-dorganization/ Thu, 18 Mar 2021 13:28:00 +0000 https://solvemyspace.com/?p=52193 Déco Thérapie Podcast: Ménage de printemps & d’organization  

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]]> 52193 “Need help getting rid of clutter?” with CBC radio host, Shari Okeke https://solvemyspace.com/cbc-interview/ Wed, 17 Mar 2021 21:58:50 +0000 https://solvemyspace.com/2017/?p=51702 Where is the clutter in your home? In a junk drawer? Overstuffed closets? Overflowing book shelves? Take a listen to my interview with Shari Okeke on how to get organized!

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]]> 51702 Power Profile with Sara Smeaton https://solvemyspace.com/power-profile-with-sara-smeaton/ Tue, 16 Mar 2021 18:10:53 +0000 https://solvemyspace.com/?p=52296 The post Power Profile with Sara Smeaton appeared first on Solve My Space.

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Get to Know Tinka and Her Work With Sara Smeaton

Hi, I’m Tinka Markham Piper and I love bright colors, coffee with lots of milk, yard sales, stationary stores, problem-solving and meeting new people. I’m a “chaos counselor”—part organizer, part redesigner and part therapist and my business is “Solve My Space.” I’m an American/Canadian and have called Montreal home for the past 16 years. I had an itinerant childhood—my family lived in 7 countries because of my father’s job as a foreign correspondent—which gifted me a strong sense of curiosity and wonder about people and places. The question “where are you from?” was always the hardest for me to answer, however, I am grateful for a very close family bond that made me realize that home is most often found in people.   sarasmeaton.com

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]]> 52296 Damask + Dentelle : Small Storage Office Makeover with Solve My Space https://solvemyspace.com/damask-dentelle-small-storage-office-makeover-with-solve-my-space/ Tue, 24 Mar 2020 13:38:43 +0000 https://solvemyspace.com/?p=52201 The post Damask + Dentelle : Small Storage Office Makeover with Solve My Space appeared first on Solve My Space.

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Take a Look at a Small Storage Office Makeover

ORGANIZATION PROJECT: SMALL STORAGE OFFICE MAKEOVER

There is a disaster zone and then… there is A disaster zone. In the underbelly of the Apartment by Damask & Dentelle, lies the biggest mess of all messes, my storage-staging-office room. This tiny room, about 6.5′ by 10′ long, is the place where all of my shop’s products, all the accessories for my staging and photoshoots and ideally a small desk area should fit. An ambitious proposition to say the least and one that has never materialized. Here’s why.

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