Home & Tack Organizing, LLC

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Home & Tack Organizing, LLC Lindsey Bennington

Imagine all the stuff in your basement, garage, or tack room neat and tidy and arranged where you can easily find it. Lindsey Bennington’s dream job is to make your dream come true. Her company, Home & Tack Organizing, specializes in turning messes into peaceful places — and she loves doing it. The idea for Home & Tack Organizing came from her mother-in-law and the basement she kept putting off sorting for years. She would brush off Lindsey’s offers to help with “you really don’t want to do THAT!” Only when she installed a pool and became frustrated with trying to store pool supplies and toys did she relent and ask Lindsey to sort “just the pool items” in the basement. The results were so astounding, she allowed Lindsey to organize the rest of the basement. And Lindsey found that she “really, really liked” organizing it for her. Two months later, in August 2021, Lindsey launched Home & Tack Organizing, LLC. And thus, she added to her resume of military spouse, mother of two boys and avid horse rider the title of independent business owner. Since its inception, her company has been transforming stressful areas into functional spaces in Culpeper, Luray, Front Royal, Nokesville – and everywhere in between. Lindsey begins any project with a consultation to assess a client’s troublesome area, either via Zoom or in person. She asks questions to determine their needs, measures the layout of the space, takes pictures, and generates ideas and provides an estimate. When the client agrees, Lindsey rolls up her sleeves and works side by side with them, separating articles into piles of things to keep, to donate, to trash, and “other” — which means an item in the space belongs to another area of the house. “I like to work with my clients,” Lindsey said. “It may take longer, but as we go through everything, I teach them how to organize, and how to maintain the space after it is finished.” Lindsey finds the hardest part for people is accepting that they need help — and getting over the embarrassment of having a stranger see their disorganized mess. But Lindsey approaches all her jobs with an objective perspective because as she says, “They’re not my things.” Despite her objective approach to her jobs, she has found herself a counselor of sorts as she listens to stories behind sentimental items and why clients may have a difficult time parting with them. Lindsey can help them gain a more realistic view of those articles so that together they can determine what’s worth keeping and what isn’t. “I’m not judgmental,” she explained. “I don’t force people to get rid of things if they don’t want to.” It’s a matter of finding a system that will work for the client to find a “home” for the items that will best fit the available space. Appreciation expressed by clients keeps Lindsey motivated to do what she does. After one organizational job in particular, her client revealed with grateful relief that for the first time in decades she didn’t have to apologize to visitors for the appearance of her home. Lindsey said it was the most thoughtful compliment she’d ever received. Not just a job well done but a dream realized. If you have questions or would like assistance organizing your home, barn, storage unit, moving into a new home, down-sizing or decluttering give Home & Tack Organizing a call.