Our Mission
We work with you to create beautiful, personalized and uncluttered spaces in your home.
We help develop organizational strategies and solutions within the home or office as well as assist with clearing out spaces and belongings. Our targeted interventions are budget-friendly, environmental and conscious of people’s personal goals.
Solve My Space is:
Tinka Markham Piper, Co-Founder and Chaos Counselor
At the age of 10, I organized and catalogued my bookshelves according to the Dewey decimal system, made my brother check out books and charged him late fees. During high school and college, my favorite pastime was to rearrange our living space (weekly!), much to the exasperation of my roommates. As an adult, visits to friends and family naturally turn into organizing sessions—cleaning out closets, moving furniture around, tackling bathroom drawers and weeding through kids’ toys. I can’t help myself—I walk into any room and immediately start reconstructing the environment.
My background and work experience are in social work and public health. I’ve worked in academic, clinical and research settings primarily in managing and leading projects from design to implementation. I love creating opportunities for others to learn and grow, I love building systems and seeing if they work, I love developing relationships and helping people. I also love design websites, felt boxes, stationery stores, storage containers and label makers. Solve My Space is an attempt to reconcile all these interests and work to improve peoples’ lives by transforming their most personal spaces.
Affiliates
Gabriella Kranz
Co-Founder (currently on maternity leave)
People ask me a lot of interesting questions. How to politely decline an invitation from an ex-boyfriend who suddenly wants to go out for a beer? Where to find sequined ballet flats in aubergine for a five year-old? What to get your mother-in-law for her 66th birthday? Where to go on a romantic weekend getaway in October? At some point, I became my co-worker and friends’ go-to source for the answers to the most random, but important, life questions. Whether I actually know the answer at the precise moment they ask is irrelevant – though strangely, most of the time, I somehow do. With some bonus background information sprinkled in for good measure. Oh how I LOVE to solve life’s little puzzles! Without knowing precisely how this happened, over the years I seem to have earned my badge as a resourceful lifestyle generalist.
My training in architecture and design, followed by a few years of fact-finding and argumentative reasoning in the profession of law, have helped me to become a passionate and vocal advocate of all things great and wonderful and fun. I believe that good design should be applied to all aspects of life in addition to space and objects. It’s an integral part of one’s approach to life and a key element of what informs personal style. With Solve My Space, I hope to bring this idea to life: by tackling one important lifestyle question at a time!
Isabelle Roy
Archivist
Plusieurs chemins foulés; le théâtre, l’anthropologie et la sociologie, puis la gestion des archives et des documents, j’ai des intérêts marqués pour la préservation de notre héritage. Depuis la naissance de mon fils Damien et l’achat de notre maison, je collectionne les livres de décoration et d’organisation de l’espace. À l’affut de bonnes idées, je tente d’y arriver sans dépenser une fortune. Mon chum croit que je suis dépendante des boutiques de vêtements et de meubles usagés, car je ne peux passer plus d’une semaine sans y mettre les pieds, j’ai beau lui mentionner que cela me fait l’effet d’une thérapie, il a de la difficulté à me croire! Sincèrement, je crois que le beau est accessible à tous et n’est pas seulement un état superficiel.
J’enseigne l’archivistique et j’offre mes services d’archiviste-conseil à des organisations qui souhaitent résoudre leur masse documentaire, je leur propose des solutions à court et à long terme. De simples manipulations, de la création à la sélection de nos documents, suffisent à résoudre la tonne de documents qui s’accumulent, et c’est dans l’espoir de vous aider à vivre en paix avec votre paperasse que je me présente à vous aujourd’hui sur le site de Solve My Space.
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Image credits on home page:
White desk: Via Slowwood
Dining table: Via a charming home in Sweden by the style files on flickr
Miniature dollhouse: Via Scrapbook
Colorful vases: Via Middle Kingdom Porcelain