Today we’d like to introduce you to Emily Olson.
Hi Emily, we’re thrilled to have a chance to learn your story today. So, before we get into specifics, maybe you can briefly walk us through how you got to where you are today?
I certainly don’t have the traditional start to this business, but I will say that once I got started, it felt as though I was following the wrong path my whole life! I am a Georgia native – I grew up in Decatur and my family still lives outside the city. I went to school for physical therapy (Dr. Emily at your service!) and was a practicing orthopedic therapist up until the Spring of 2020. I was pregnant with my second child and, along with plenty of others, was furloughed during Covid’s onset. When it came time to go back to work, I knew that I wanted to make a change. I opened my own practice in Peachtree Corners to give myself more flexibility with my family and a year and a half later my husband and I decided to move our family out to Greensboro on Lake Oconee. I had every intention of moving my practice out with us (and even started to), but starting over made it pretty clear that I wasn’t passionate about it. I decided that I needed to make a change.
I have always loved interior design and organization and treat our home like a canvas. I believe that your space, whether large or small, should be a reflection of your personality, goals, and peace. After searching a bit, I was just about to accept a job as a custom closet designer when I realized something was missing. I loved creating beautiful spaces for clients, but I didn’t want to leave them with a blank canvas to figure out how to fill – something that is pretty stressful for a lot of people! I wanted to be able to put their items into their space, whether newly built or well lived in, with a system in place that would help to streamline their day and give back that calm that clutter can steal. From that point on, in late February of 2022, Luxe became a reality!
Can you talk to us a bit about the challenges and lessons you’ve learned along the way. Looking back would you say it’s been easy or smooth in retrospect?
As a business owner, I think everyone experiences different forms of adversity and struggles. Leaving a career that I spent the majority of my life working toward was certainly something I had a hard time with in some ways, but I don’t think that these opportunities and changes in our passions are by chance. I have been blessed with immense support throughout this process and have been fortunate to meet some amazing people along the way. I am not educated in business or marketing, I can certainly say that, and finding my way in those fields has been a complete learning process; however, I do believe that part of success is that idea that we need to ‘get comfortable being uncomfortable’ and I am leaning into that idea as I continue to grow my business and my knowledge surrounding it.
Thanks for sharing that. So, maybe next you can tell us a bit more about your business?
Luxe Organizing Solutions is a boutique home organizing firm dedicated to custom-curated and maintainable organization that both streamlines your day and brings peace to your space. We specialize in choosing the right system for your home and implementing this system in a way that focuses on your personal and family goals, as well as your desired aesthetic and design features. Whether you’ve been in your home for years or you’re in the middle of a custom build looking to start fresh, our goal is to bring a sense of calm to your most used spaces without wasting money on products that don’t cater to your needs. We work in any space in the home, with our specialties lying in organizing clients’ pantries, kitchens, closets, and vanities.
In addition to home organization for everyday use, we also offer services for real estate staging. This isn’t your typical staging with furniture, but rather staging of those areas in the home that can quietly make or break a buyer’s interest. We help to purge unwanted items, categorize, and organize in a way that will that will show potential buyers innovative ways that the space can be used and trigger their imagination as to how their personal items might fit into the space.
Luxe is dedicated to not only functional organization systems, but systems that are beautiful and complimentary of the client’s chosen aesthetic. We believe that being able to stay organized and fully enjoying your space don’t have to be in competition and we pride ourselves in finding a system that works for you, not against you.
Any big plans?
Growth! I hope to continue to grow Luxe as a business and to bring on employees who feel equally as passionate about helping others as I do. In some ways, I am letting things play out in a natural way, but I am striving to continue to build my business in a way that will provide both stability and that ever-elusive work-life balance we all strive for. And we are on the way!
Contact Info:
- Website: www.luxeorganizingsolutions.com
- Instagram: @luxeorganizingsolutions
- Facebook: facebook.com/luxeorganizing
