Done & Done Home

Specialties

There comes a time when even the most capable New Yorkers need help. It could be a large and complicated move, an inherited estate, a desire to reduce overall clutter, or just a big and busy family life. This is where we come in.

Done & Done NYC is a team of New Yorkers who understand how challenging city life can be. With energy, compassion, efficiency, and a sense of humor, we take our clients from a sense of dread to feeling lighter than air.

After a thorough clean-​out, we implement systems to prevent reoccurring issues and help you get control of the problem that’s controlling you.

We also specialize in helping realtors get apartments on the market and overseeing movers — leave us in charge and come home at the end of your work day with everything put away, pictures on the walls, and flowers in a vase.

As life-​long New Yorkers, we understand both the challenges of living in small spaces and those that come with country houses and living in two places. We have expertise in multi-​home consolidation and are willing to travel to unify the systems within your homes.

We specialize in:

Home Organizing

Estate Clearance

Estate Management

Real Estate re-​sale

Real Estate preparation

Home Consulting

Organization Consulting

Closet Design

Closet Management

Library Management

Technology Management

Home Repairs

Moving

Consolidation

Professional Packing

Specialty Moves

History

Established in 2011.

Co-​Founder Kate always loved to organize and perfected her de-​cluttering skills on her childhood friends’ bedrooms, but it wasn’t until her early twenties that she realized she could get paid to do it. After graduating from college, she was hired by a family friend to manage the move of a five-​story townhouse to another state. Kate soon realized that her direct questions about her first client’s belongings were really questions about why we keep things even if they don’t work for us. Kate’s training in psychology allowed her to understand the deep-​seated reasons why people hold on to possessions even when they cause problems, and realized this might be the seed for a business idea. After booking her second job and realizing she couldn’t do it alone, she called in the person who had taught her everything she knew about organizing – and life in general – her mom, Ann. And so Done & Done NYC was formed.

Meet the Business Owner

Ann L.

Business Owner

Born and raised in the Midwest, Ann is an eternal optimist with an endless interest in the human experience. After returning to New York after nine years in London, she started her own company, A Better Birth, and worked five years as a doula in New York, alleviating expectant mothers’ fears and supporting them during pregnancy and the labor process. Her experience in shepherding clients through times of stress and great life change makes the work of Done & Done NYC second nature to her. Always comforted by an organized home, Ann was thrilled when her daughter, Kate, called for help with an organizing job. As one job followed another, their business was born. Ann works closely with all clients, and her attention to their life stories and experiences with organization has lead Done & Done NYC to have a 100% hire rate after in-​person consultations.

Ann Lightfoot holds an MFA from The New School and a BA from Loyola University.