Best Decluttering - Best of New York Home & Services 2007 -- New York Magazine

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Best Decluttering

  • Jen M.R. Doman, Get It Together!

    172 Fifth Ave., Ste 252, Brooklyn; 718-783-2077

    HGTV producer Nancy Glass has consulted dozens of professional neat-freaks for her show Mission: Organization, so it’s significant when she singles out one as a real pro. Brooklyn-based organizer Jen M.R. Doman is not just a master weeder, says Glass, she also �understands how people actually live,� especially apartment-dwelling pack rats cramped for space. Doman, whose clients range from bus drivers to celebrities (and fetishists�she was once asked to organize a closet full of sex toys), doesn’t foist arbitrary �systems� upon clients�a sure prescription for failure�but instead helps them to develop strategies to stay organized long after she’s gone. She’s not afraid to do the clearing and tossing herself, and she’s not a scold: Doman fans such as actor-producer Fisher Stevens say her service, which charges a reasonable $650 for eight hours, is judgment-free (no finger-wagging lectures). And no job’s too small. She once organized a kid’s marble collection.

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