Introducing Adriane!
We’re excited to introduce Adriane Ziemer, the newest professional organizer on the Seattle Sparkle team! Like many professional organizers, Adriane didn’t wake up one morning and decide that organizing would be her career. She just kept discovering that she really liked putting things in order. Her first memorable home-organizing project started years ago when she opened her hall closet, took one look inside, and thought:
“I cannot with this.”
So she emptied it.
Without knowing any of the “official rules” of professional organizing, Adriane sorted everything, decided what should stay and what could go, and created a storage system that was more accessible, more attractive, and—most importantly—felt better to live with.
She loved the result. And she kept doing it.
Over the years, Adriane became the person who would happily offer to help friends and family whenever they needed some order and a little more peace of mind in their homes.
An Organizer Who Understands ADHD
Adriane was diagnosed with ADHD as an adult, and the diagnosis brought one of those enormous aha! moments when pieces of her life suddenly made sense.
Since then, she’s loved discovering ways to work with her brain rather than fighting against it.
That experience has also shaped the way she approaches organizing. Adriane knows firsthand how overwhelming a cluttered environment can feel, particularly for someone with ADHD or another form of neurodivergence. She also knows how much calm can come from having a space and systems that actually make sense to the person using them.
And she’s discovered something else along the way: strategies designed to work well for neurodivergent brains often work pretty darn well for everyone else’s brains, too.
A Background in Helping People Make Changes That Actually Work
Adriane holds a Master’s Degree in Nutrition Science and previously worked as a nutritionist in a community health setting.
At first glance, nutrition and professional organizing might seem like completely different fields. But Adriane sees an important similarity.
As a nutritionist, she listened to patients talk about their habits, lifestyles, barriers, and goals. Rather than simply telling someone what they should do, she worked with them to develop sustainable plans that could actually work within the realities of their lives.
Professional organizing requires much the same approach.
Rather than walking into someone’s home and imposing a “correct” way to organize it, Adriane believes in working alongside clients to develop solutions based on their needs, habits, priorities, and brains.
From Seattle’s Underground to Your Overstuffed Garage
If Adriane looks familiar, there’s a chance you’ve seen her somewhere completely different.
Since 2017, Adriane has been a tour guide with Bill Speidel’s Underground Tour, leading visitors through Seattle’s subterranean history and entertaining people from all over the world.
Being a great tour guide requires more than memorizing a script. Adriane has learned how to take a lot of information and make it interesting and easy to understand, connect with all kinds of personalities, think on her feet, and adapt when something unexpected happens.
Those skills translate surprisingly well to professional organizing.
Every client—and every home—is different. Plans change. Unexpected things turn up in boxes. What works beautifully for one person might be completely impractical for someone else. Adriane is comfortable adjusting as she goes while keeping the bigger goal in sight.
And, of course, she’s a storyteller at heart. In addition to leading history tours, Adriane writes fiction in her spare time.
An Organizer At Heart
Adriane’s love of organizing has shown up throughout her work life, too. During several seasons working at Spirit Halloween, she helped set up stores from scratch, unpacked and sorted hundreds of boxes, and made sure merchandise found its way to the right place.
Not surprisingly, sorting boxes of miscellaneous items and figuring out where everything belonged was one of her favorite parts of the job. Even now, when she visits Spirit Halloween as a customer, she sometimes finds herself putting misplaced merchandise back where it belongs.
What Adriane Loves to Organize
Adriane is particularly happy when there’s a lot to tackle. Garages, basements, overflowing storage spaces, large quantities of belongings—bring them on.
She also loves organizing kitchens, bedrooms, bathrooms and closets; paperwork and filing systems; physical photographs and photo collections; craft rooms and art supplies; home offices; and small-business spaces.
She especially enjoys working with people with ADHD or chronic disorganization and helping clients who feel overwhelmed by the sheer volume of what they own.
Adriane can also help shop for and source organizing products and then turn those products into systems designed around the way a client actually lives.
A Little More About Adriane
Adriane grew up in Puyallup, Washington, and has called West Seattle home since 2010.
When she’s not organizing or taking visitors underneath the streets of Seattle, she writes fiction, cross-stitches, and studies Korean.
She’s also a proud auntie, a serious enthusiast of all things fall, and a Disney adult whose favorite place on Earth is Disneyland.
We’re delighted to have Adriane joining Seattle Sparkle—and we can’t wait for our clients to meet her.
Read more about Adriane here
Posted By Jean Prominski, Certified Professional Organizer
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