Today,
I'm going to take the Epic Shed and we're going to go into the Epic Garage as
well, and do a little fall decluttering with Amy of Waverly
Organizing. So I met you on Instagram. Yup, through a mutual friend.
And so we're going to take the shed, let's show them the shed.
I wouldn't call it, I mean, you're the expert. You tell me. Is this crazy messy?
It's not that bad.
Not at all. You're definitely very minimal. I think too,
a lot of people who work in a creative field like you,
they are working on creating and less so on the stuff. The systems.
That's why it's smart to hire a professional organizing company like Waverly,
cause we can organize everything.
Everything that you need for your life is suddenly at your fingertips. Yeah.
It's at your eye level. This is the dream. Yeah. And so it takes you,
it actually affects you emotionally in a way where it takes you from like the
lower part of your brain, which is kind of like survival chaos,
into the higher thinking, creative, beautiful way of living.
That's where I need to be. Yeah. So the steps here,
like let's just take a look at the shed as it is right now.
Like what's your initial read on the shed?
So it looks great, but there are,
there's a little bit of wasted space on this wall. Totally.
So we want you to be able to see every single tool that you have and need
in an instant. And make it so that long-term, and in two years from now,
it's going to be.
Manageable for you. Still the same. And easy to.
Keep. So we brought pegboard. Okay. We'll pegboard this whole area.
We're going to really maximize more space and get all your tools
right here.
So you're going to walk in and you're not going to waste your precious daytime
work hours searching for things. A lot of times people too, they come in,
they're like, ooh, I'm going to.
Leave. That's what I do sometimes. It's.
Just easy. So we're going to eliminate that.
So your days like are going to be compounding in productivity.
There we go. What about this? What about this zone? Like,
I feel like I half did this side almost.
I see that you value organization. Like, halfway.
You do, but to be honest like it's really difficult to do it in your own space.
But it's not difficult for us to come and do it in a way that makes
a lot of sense, because this is what we do. We know exactly.
The tools. And you don't care about the items like I do, so it's different.
There are a lot of emotions,
like when you're a homeowner and this is your own space,
there's a lot of emotions tied to each and every thing. Where it's,
so you're like, I am going to leave. I kind of just can't do it.
But that does catch up with you over time. So we're gonna organize everything.
We're gonna do it all in one day. Oh, my gosh. And the rest of your year,
your next few years,
it's going to be a system that's going to be easy to maintain.
It's going to serve you. Like your space will serve you. Yeah.
So the first step, what's like the philosophy?
I would imagine you kind of have to take everything out first?
Every single tiny item. We sweep every piece of dust. Every,
sometimes mouse poop. I don't know if you have that.
I might actually. People on this channel know I've been battling the rats.
We take every single thing out. We wash it all down. We put like items together.
We put in our shelving, our system, our containers. We label them so that later,
at the end of the day, you're tired. The dream. Yeah, you're going to be tired.
And you'll be like, where does this shovel go? I just want to ... No,
you know where it goes. We've put a label on it.
It'll say shovel. It'll say something. Something like that. Yeah.
It all depends on once we get everything out, we'll know what you have. Yeah.
And then the next day you'll wake up and you'd be like, where's my stuff? Oh,
it's right here. Because I am now an organized person.
You know who we're going to need to send you to is the garden hermit's house.
My garden assistant, Jacques. We might have to send them over there, Jacques.
We're definitely down for that. We are really inspired by this garden.
Like as much as we're helping you,
I feel like I'm already learning a thousand more things. I'm happy to help.
Yeah. All right. Well, let's get to it. Let's do it. All right,
most of the debris is out of here almost,
but I'll show you what's going on right here.
So just a really simple pegboard installation.
Probably we'll do a little bit of clean up here at the top at some point.
But right now just getting organized is the key.
So the only other thing I'll do with this section is cut a strip that will slot
in right there and cut a strip that will slot in up to the top right there.
The next step is a little bit harder because I have to determine what in my
garden collection I actually don't need or don't want.
And so that's going to be difficult because there's like duplicate tools.
That's like the third hammer I have. I don't know why.
I've got all sorts of different fertilizers.
And so this part is going to be a little, a little tough. Moving along here,
we have the pegboard starting to get organized.
So all of the easy access gardening tools are going to be hanging out here.
They're building some shelves to move a lot of the fertilizer and garden stuff
over into this area cause it's kind of wasted space.
And I think this table is sort of suboptimal. So putting some shelving together,
still making my way through the tools and supplies over here.
A lot of stuff I'm going to either list or donate.
I get a lot of gardening supplies from people that I either don't end up
using or don't end up liking.
And so I need to find like a responsible way to get rid of that stuff.
And a good way is to give it away. So that's what we're going to do.
We are fighting the rain and the wind and I was on a call for two and a half
hours. So I've come out just now to see what's going on.
So I'm going to snap my fingers and the door will open.
Come on in to your new shed. Look at this. I can already tell I like it.
All right, well first of all, let's just take it in. So what have we done here?
We've put these, oh my, look at these pegboards.
So notice first of all, the floor space.
So now you have full access to walk up to where everything you own
is. You can walk over here.
We utilize the whole vertical space to increase visibility for everything you
need. So you don't have to dig for stuff.
You don't have to feel lost or feel overwhelmed. You can just be like,
quickly like, I need a shovel.
Yup. Give me the pruning shears. Yeah, totally. They're all right here.
Everything is exactly where you need. Come over here.
We even have some of the cords, these things. Oh my gosh, yeah.
A lot of things can be really vertical. So everything.
I mean, just like these trellis nets, these hoops would take up,
they'd just be stacked here, not efficiently. Yeah.
And it's not necessarily serving you, but now it is serving you.
You're using all this wall space.
So then what do we do over here? Cause this looks different now.
Yes, so there was a lot of things hidden in probably like 15 cardboard boxes.
We got rid of all the cardboard so that now you have visibility for everything.
We put like items together. And then these we got at Harbor Freight.
They're stacking and there for little itty bitty things that you can just grab
and quickly find. Tomato clips.
Irrigation. And I think the beauty of it is like, yeah,
maybe I don't need super quick access to my irrigation, but that's fine.
I'll swap that into the other thing. Like I'll put it in sprinkler parts,
for example, and then I can put something that needs easier access there, right?
Yeah, exactly. And then this was something that you already owned.
It was behind your shed.
And instead of bringing in something that you have to pay for,
we just repurposed it and put all your garden signs in here. Oh, amazing.
And then also right here, the same thing. You had all these in a bag,
we took the bag, but it's now visible and easy to access.
So this is the part that's the magic right here. This is the magic.
So we got these two shelving units.
And this was a table and it was really hard to see under and over.
But we were able to take all of your stuff out of the boxes and line them all
up. So now you can quickly take a glance. Wow! Everything is at your fingertips,
accessible, visible, and like items together.
So you don't have to spend any time when you should be gardening. So satisfying.
you should be gardening not searching through your stuff or avoiding your stuff.
So now this is just a really good investment in yourself and your business
because it's all dialed exactly to you with our Waverley strategy.
Yeah.
Let's take a look at the garage then, yeah? Let's do it. All right. All right.
The second moment of truth is the Epic Garage.
Let's open it up. I see some feet. I see a tiller
and look at this. Welcome to your garage. Oh, man, it
even like visually looks amazing! Just the symmetry of it all. Okay, so.
So now you have floor space and you also have access to your row machine. Yep.
We put pegboard here as well to use this vertical space.
You can grab everything and see everything you need. These are new.
There are two new shelving units.
So instead of things just kind of spread on the floor,
we're able to put five levels of your belongings consolidated together.
We use clear bins so that you can quickly see what's in here.
Nothing is getting forgotten or left.
You're not overbuying because you know exactly what you have.
That's a good point. You're like, I need to buy this - I don't.
Because I try to keep things pretty minimal in my life in general. But yeah,
there's been times where I've bought something twice on accident. Yeah.
Exactly. So now everything is visible, accessible.
We put your two boards right here together using the small,
long space. And they're together. You can quickly see.
Your bike is ready for you. Your tools are ready for you.
So this is the part that's nice for me.
Cause like this was supposed to be a workspace and never was,
cause you guys saw it when it started.
It was just completely covered with stuff. Yeah.
Sometimes I feel like our stuff could be such a blessing, but too much, it just,
it can take our energy, take our creativity.
And so that's why having organization put in place can really help you
long-term.
Yeah, I'm really excited about this.
So like when you leave a customer's house or client's house,
do you recommend they do anything after?
Cause like I just walked out and saw this, right?
So I don't necessarily know exactly what's gone on.
I would say it's similar to keeping a garden.
So once we do all the hard work for you upfront,
after that maybe like some light pruning. I like that, light pruning, nice.
You can continue to take.
Stuff.
Out. And sometimes too, when you're organized,
it's like you feel more protective of your space and you're like,
I don't use this. And you have more satisfaction in your home.
So keep it, you know, maintain it. If you buy more at Christmas,
just make sure you don't just toss it anywhere.
But put it with the Christmas stuff. Like if you buy more tape,
you just take that little bit of extra time,
a little bit of sprinkling like a garden, you know,
and that's how you'd maintain it. Okay. And it could serve you,
but we have set you up for this to be lifelong.
And it's, I mean, yeah. I mean, I don't have too much in some of these.
So I can you know, if I decide maybe I don't have a lot of games or somethin,.
I could repurpose that as a different one or whatever. Exactly.
And then eventually I could maybe build shelving or I could.
It's nice cause I can expand from a base that's not a total mess, right?
Exactly. So if I do need something custom,
cause I've got the business or whatever,
I can do that in a way that doesn't make me go insane.
Yes, exactly. And too, we try to like foolproof it where if you get something,
there's really not a lot of shelf space to just like shove.
You do have to take that extra second because there's.
Not a lot of space. Yeah, I can't just lazily toss it. You can't.
You're going to have to either like be like replace games and get a new item or
you know, like you're going to have to put more thought into it,
which will keep you honest long-term. There you go.
Like this for you could be like
lifelong.
I hope it is. Yup, exactly. Amazing! I've got to say,
I'm very pleased with how both the shed and the garage turned out.
I mean that tool wall is amazing.
There's some more configuration I want to do over here as well as over here.
Maybe we'll even put more storage up,
but having like a baseline of good organizational practices for the Homestead
is clutch. It's not my strong suit. I'm organized in a different type of way,
not in the material world. In the digital world I'm pretty organized.
But if you liked this video and you want to see some more kind of off the beaten
path type of vlogs like this one, maybe cooking, maybe organization,
that kind of thing, drop it in the Comments. And until next time,
good luck in the garden and keep on growing.