Professional organizer Lisa Smith sitting at a table writing in a notebook

ORGANIZED LIVING IS THE KEY TO CALM

After working for years as an interior designer, Simplify Studio’s founder, Lisa Greene Smith, began looking for an alternate way to transform and refine spaces that is less stressful and lengthy than the typical interior design process. She used to believe that in order to improve interior spaces, a total renovation, new finishes and furniture were required. Then she discovered professional organizing and learned that spaces could be transformed by editing belongings, creating organizational systems, and styling spaces. Lisa realized that she had been doing this in her own family’s life for years and was able to create calm and beautiful spaces through organizing, even without a full-scale remodel.

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Lisa learned that not only spaces are transformed through organization, but lives are too. Her signature process simplifies both physical and mental space and adds ease to what was once chaotic. Lisa feels fulfilled and fortunate to be able to help people simplify their lives by getting organized. This process has helped her so much in her own life and it is a gift to be able to share it with others.

ABOUT LISA

Lisa is a California native who grew up in Alaska and now lives in Raleigh, NC. At the age of 7, she embarked on a homesteading adventure with her parents to Homer, Alaska. She grew up living off the land on salmon, shellfish, moose, homegrown vegetables and her mother’s homemade bread, and she learned to adapt to life with no electricity or running water. Her parents built their dream log cabin off the grid in Halibut Cove, a nearby village with no roads and accessible only by boat or floatplane, where her father still lives today. During this time, she experienced living in a tipi, close encounters with wildlife, and the northern lights. She learned to drive boats, rescued and raised a harbor seal pup, and gained a true appreciation for nature. Lisa worked on a local classic wooden yacht turned tour boat in high school and became a licensed Coast Guard captain at the age of 21. This opportunity gave her the means to attend Rhode Island School of Design and pursue her passion for art and interior design.

  • Lisa Smith in rain pants with Alaskan baby seal on her lap

    Lisa’s first baby - a rescued Harbor seal pup that she raised and then released back in the waters of Kachemak Bay, Alaska.

  • Lisa Smith in Rome, Italy with her family

    Lisa and her family went on a year long adventure to Florence, Italy years ago and got great inspiration from Italian art and architecture while there.

  • Green wooden boat at a dock in Alaska

    The Danny J is the tour boat that Lisa piloted in the summers in Halibut Cove, Alaska while in college.

  • Alaskan log cabin with wooden steps

    Lisa’s childhood home in Halibut Cove, Alaska. The cabin is off the grid and access is only by boat - no roads! Her father still lives there and she makes annual trips up to visit in the summertime.

“Simplify Studio did an amazing job of organizing my kitchen. The team went through everything in my kitchen and discarded lots of expired and unused items and orgnanized the rest. They were a pleasure to work with and I will be scheduling them to come back to organize the rest of my home.”

— KATE | RALEIGH | NC

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