The Clean Sweep Awards: The Best of the Messed

Tools for Organization

Nickie Mordridge and Dan Steigel are married with kids and each have their own separate clutter problem. The bedroom is mostly Nickie's mess, with clothes everywhere, an ironing board right in the middle of the floor, exercise equipment and more. The garage is so bad that there's no room to walk, let alone park a car --- it's packed with sporting equipment, sports cards, painting materials, bikes, tools and more. After this stuff is all hauled out, Peter gets these two started on a huge purge. Although Nickie is at first very reluctant to get rid of clothing, he soon has her pitching one item for every two that she keeps. Dan's tools are sorted through and all that are redundant or broken leave the house forever. Molly Luetkemyer redesigns both areas into delightful new spaces. The garage is given a bright new look with several functional areas and plenty of room to park the car. The bedroom receives new dresser drawers, bedding, fabric and a completely redesigned closet system.