For Seniors Downsizing

A smaller home will not hold everything from the house you have lived in for decades. That is a hard fact, and you deserve to face it on your own terms. We start by listening: where you are moving, how much room you will have, and what you will not live without.

Then we walk the house with you. We tell you plainly what the china cabinet, the sterling, the paintings in the hall and the boxes in a storage unit bring on the market, so your choices rest on facts. What you keep is your decision. We never rush it and never argue with it.

When this is a good fit

• You are moving to a smaller home and most of the furniture is staying behind
• You want to decide at your own pace, without a sales pitch
• Your children live elsewhere and want to stay involved

When another path may suit better

• The house has already sold and has to be emptied on very short notice
• You have sorted everything already and only need a haul-away

How we work with you

Here is the order.

• A first visit to talk and look, with nothing decided
• We look at the new rooms with you and note which pieces will fit
• You set aside the furniture and keepsakes that are moving, and we tag them
• You receive a written plan for everything else: what we buy, what goes to auction, what is donated
• Nothing leaves until you have signed that plan
• Once you have moved, we clear the old house

Fitting a life into fewer rooms

A dining table for ten will not fit a two-bedroom apartment. Neither will both sofas. We help you choose the pieces that suit the new rooms and the way you live now: the reading chair, the good lamp, the cabinet that holds your mother’s china. The rest goes to a buyer, and you never host strangers at a sale in your own home.

Your children are part of it

Sons and daughters in other cities want a say, and you should not have to relay every detail by phone. We send the written plan and each update to whoever you choose, so the family weighs in together and the work does not fall on you alone.