Melissa Gugni is a San Francisco Bay Area professional organizer helping clients feel a sense of calm and order at home.
Years ago, I was helping a client organize her bookshelves. It was a small job - just the bookshelves - and I finished in about an hour. The client walked into the room and immediately began to cry.
“I didn’t realize how bad it had gotten,” she said, tears spilling down her cheeks. “It’s like a weight’s been lifted.”
In that small space of time, together we pushed aside all of the physical things that were blocking her from living her fullest, most authentic and expressive life.
And that is why I love being a professional organizer.
Sometimes all it takes is a little bit of help from someone who listens and can bring creative solutions that are hard to see from the inside. As a mom, a 20 + year resident of San Francisco and a lifelong entrepreneur with two brick and mortar locations in the Bay Area (shout out to Union Larder and Little Vine!), I know how hard it can be to juggle family, friends and work with creating a home that you love but can live in too. Let’s make your space everything you always wanted it to be.
Are you ready to live the organized life that’s uniquely you? I can’t wait to work together.
Fun Facts About Me:
My hometown is Beverly Hills….Michigan (it’s a suburb of Detroit.) Please let me point it out on my hand next time I see you.
On my days off you will find me doing yoga, cooking, traveling, spending time with my family (my husband Jay, my 10 year old son and our tortie cat Pickles) and organizing and reorganizing my home.
I earned my organizing stripes partly from living in very small spaces all over the world. I always chose experiences and travel over space. I lived in a station wagon in the Australian Outback in the late 90s. I’ve also lived in small and quirky places in New Zealand, Hawaii, Vancouver B.C. and Belgium and I loved decorating and organizing all of them. My smallest studio was 275 sq ft (for 2 of us, our first place in SF!) which was still much bigger than the aforementioned station wagon.
My most serendipitous story is how I met Jay, first at a hostel in Prague and then randomly three years later at a hostel in Australia.
My brain is exceptionally good at two things: organizing and remembering the lyrics of every song I have ever heard. If you would like to sing Les Miserables from start to finish with someone, I’m your girl (London or Broadway recording, you choose).
An unusual thing about me is that I have no first cousins and yes, I am Italian!
