Project Sy · House clearing · Toronto

A collector's home, cleared and sorted

Years of resale stock, sorted into donate, store and dispose, and a home given back to the family.

Dan from the Clear We Go team giving a thumbs up in the empty, swept living room

The situation.

Sy's dad started collecting items to resell. Over time, most of it never sold. It sat in the house, room after room, taking space the family needed.

What we did.

  1. 01Walked the home with Sy and his dad and agreed what mattered to keep.
  2. 02Sorted every item into three groups: donate, store or dispose.
  3. 03Left the space swept and ready to live in.
  • DonatedPassed on to people the family knows.
  • StoredKeepers moved to the family's storage unit.
  • DisposedEverything with no further use, removed responsibly.

Before and after.

Living room before: shelves, boxes and collections filling the room to the windowBefore
Living room after: empty, with the floor sweptAfter
Living room, from the door
Living room before: statues, frames and boxes stacked in front of the TV and bookshelfBefore
Living room after: bare walls and floor in front of the windowAfter
Living room, window side
Storage unit before: three boxes in an empty unitBefore
Storage unit after: the family's keepers boxed and packed inAfter
Storage unit

In Sy's words.

“My dad had been collecting things to resell for years, and most of it ended up just sitting there, filling up the house. Clear We Go helped us sort through everything, figure out what to keep, what to give away, and what to let go of. Some pieces went to people we know, the keepers went to storage, and the house finally feels like a home again. Thank you for being patient with my dad and making a hard job feel easy.”
Sy, Project Sy

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