Have you spent the better part of an hour looking for a document? Of course, we always seem unable to find that important document at just the worst moment (like when the board chair asks for it or three hours before the big grant proposal is due). Cris talks about office organization on the Successful Nonprofits.

Your home might be compact, but keeping it both stylish and neat is no tiny task. Here are our favorite places to buy small-scale furniture and organizational systems—plus, in case the job is too much to DIY, local pros can help you declutter.

Cris Sgrott-Wheedleton, a professional organizer in Tysons Corner, Va., has noticed a higher call volume at her office since the spate of natural disasters…

“The reason why things get lost is because we fall out of our everyday habits,” says Cris Sgrott-Wheedleton, a productivity consultant and Certified Professional Organizer at Organizing Maniacs.

How many of us are determined to get our clutter in order in 2017? Cris Sgrott-Wheedleton is the owner and founder of Organizing Maniacs in Tysons Corner, Va. and she has solutions for almost any household organizing issue.

Organizing Maniacs genuinely understand how to bring order to the chaos and carnage that clutter can bring, and the best way to ‘create visual results and transform spaces, which help change lives.

Cris joins staff writer Jura Koncius’s weekly online chat to help readers get organized for the new year. Here is the professional organizer’s best advice to start 2016 on the right foot.

Cris suggests unpacking one room at a time to keep stress at a minimum.

Cris had the opportunity to have a great conversation with the funny and talented Kevin Roose of Matter and the New York Magazine.