Professional Home Organizers in Highland Park, TX
Imagine letting a group of strangers into your home and hugging every single one of them when they leave because they gave you everything you’ve been hoping your home could be.
Your purses and shoes displayed the way a boutique would. A pantry you're proud to open with someone standing in your kitchen. Every drawer holding what it should, right where you'd look for it first.
And no one judging a single thing along the way — not to your face, not to each other. People think they’re one of the few when they’re actually one of the majority. We all have Amazon. We all have too much stuff. Zero judgment.
You don't have to tidy before we arrive. We actually don’t want you to. We want to see what naturally accumulates and where so that we can create systems around the way your unique household operates. You don't even have to be home. You just have to say yes.
We're professional home organizers in Highland Park, and most of the women who call us are in one of four places and number 3 is true of every single person at many times in their life.
You have more Stuff than space
This is the most common call we get, and there's nothing wrong with your closet. You get your hair colored because it never stops growing. Well, so does the number of items you’ve added to your closet. Your closet, also, requires a little maintenance.
We start by editing the wardrobe with you. What you actually wear, what you love, what's been hanging there out of obligation since a job you no longer have. You make every call — we sort, we ask, and we leave with the donations and the consignment so nothing sits in a bag in the garage for four months.
Then we design the layout around what's left. Boutique-style: hanging by category and then by color, shoes visible instead of stacked, handbags stored so they keep their shape, off-season pieces rotated out so they aren't competing for space with what you're wearing this week. Where the closet needs more capacity than it was built with, we add it — a second rod, pull-out drawers, shelving cut to the depth of what actually sits on it.
The whole point is sustainability. Anyone can make a closet look good for a photograph on the last day. The test is whether it still looks like that 6 months later, and that comes down to whether the layout matches how you get dressed.
You're moving in!
We've never met a move we didn't like.
The largest so far was about 12,000 square feet. That one took a bit longer, but most move-ins are completed in about 5 days. A 7,000sqft house normally doesn’t have twice as many things as a 3,500sqft house. The rooms are just bigger and the additional rooms that do exist aren’t closets with 2,000 items in them. It’s a bigger pantry with food for 4, not food for 8.
How much is not unpacking into piles and correcting it over the next six months vs being in a fully functioning in a week worth to you? We coordinate with your movers, unpack every box, and place things once — so the first time a dress is put up, it's already in its permanent home to create good habits from minute one. Kitchens get zoned before anything goes in a cabinet. Closets get their layout set before the hangers come out. Paper, cardboard, and packing material leave with us the same day.
If you're moving out of a house that is local as well, bring us in before the packers arrive (or hire us to pack). Editing first will keep you from paying to crate, move, store, and re-handle things you were always going to let go of.
We also offer concierge moves where we decorated, set up utilities, etc. You name it, we’ve done it.
life is changing
This is the interesting one, because it means so many different things.
A new baby. The baby becoming a kid. The kid becoming a teenager. The teenager moving out and leaving a room with no job anymore. Two households merging into one. A parent downsizing. A parent's house that has to be emptied, and it fell to you.
The only constant in life is change, and we can help you with all of it.
Every one of those changes lands in the same few places — the closets, the garage, the playroom that isn't a playroom now, the room nobody has renamed yet. The work is the same work; what changes is the pace. We have created nurseries for parents who maybe waited a little too long and we have gone through the heart wrenching work of going through the belongings of a loved one. For that one specifically, what tends to happen is we’ll ask about every single item until patterns emerge. I want to see everything that….. You can get rid of everything that….
We do this every day and there are just a lot of things in a home. Our moves take us about 250 hours of hard work without any sentimental attachment to anything. However, I can see how someone could maybe pick out a few things from a kitchen and be willing to get rid of everything else. You’re probably not keeping much from the pantry, but every piece of memorabilia might take you15 minutes.
Having a team to execute your vision quickly and people to help you with decision making will tend to be what people are most thankful for when we finish.
You're building, renovating, or designing a closet, Kitchen, or Bathroom
Most closet design goes wrong in the same place. The layout gets drawn first, and then products get chosen to fit the drawing.
We work the other way around. We review everything YOU have and start from there. One person might be really into boots. One person might have 50 hats. We know the real dimensions of the best product on the market — the drawer systems, the pull-outs, the rods, the shelving, the hanging and shoe solutions — and we design the layout around what is actually available and actually good. A plan that assumes a fourteen-inch drawer, when nothing worth installing comes in fourteen inches, produces a closet full of quiet compromises you'll live with for twenty years.
That's also the difference between us and the two other people who might draw your closet. A closet company designs to its own product line, because that line is what it sells. A designer designs to the elevation. We design to your wardrobe first, then to the best product for each job regardless of who makes it, and the layout follows from both.
The same thinking applies to a kitchen. Drawer depths, pull-out widths, and interior fittings decide whether the room works, and those are decisions made months before anyone cooks in it.
Bring us in before the drawings are final — it costs nothing to move a rod on paper. If the millwork is already installed, we work with what's there and add what the spec left out: inserts, dividers, a second rod where the height allows one, fitted lining for drawers left bare.
What Highland Park clients say
5.o Star Google Rating on 27 Reviews
"She assisted with multiple moves, have organized my homes, and has assisted in curating my spaces in such a way that they have been completely transformed and redesigned. Elevated Order consistently does a phenomenal job. I will never stop working with Audra, as she has done so much for my mental clarity, my confidence, my patience and so many more areas of my life."
Dottie H., Highland Park
"Audra is beyond amazing and so fantastic to work with! She exhibits a unique combination of utmost professionalism, an eye for how to make something look beautiful, and an ability to put you at ease."
Rod L., Highland Park
What it costs
Most spaces are $2,000-$4,000, depending on square footage, how much editing is involved, and how much product we use.
The walkthrough to figure out a more precise number is free and takes 30-45 minutes.
Discretion, specifically
Most of our Park Cities work comes from referrals for a reason.
No photograph is posted publicly without permission. No addresses or recognizable exteriors ever.
You don't need to be home. Many clients give us a code and come back to finished rooms. Facetime can accomplish a lot when necessary.
Only Elevated Order employees enter our clients’ homes. Insured and background-checked. No subcontracted work.
Just to reiterate, zero judgment. Talk to Audra and try and find an ounce of judgment. She’s, truly, excited about every project. The more complicated the problem, the more excited she gets because she knows the reveal will be that much more rewarding, and she nails it every time.
The most common sentence we hear on a first walkthrough is some version of I'm embarrassed for anyone to see this. The most common thing we hear while we’re on a project is “I can’t believe how hard y’all work.” The most common things we hear after finishing a project are “I’m so glad I hired you”, “I would have never imagined this” and “You need to do my (insert room here) next!”