About Us

Hello and Welcome!

We’re so glad you’ve found us!

We are Ann Lighfoot and Kate Pawlowski, the mother daughter team and co-founders of Done & Done Home.

Over a decade ago, our business was born when a friend needed help with a move and we both jumped at the chance to put our natural organizing abilities to use. As it turned out, we worked well together and soon realized we could turn our passion for helping others into a business!

What started as a mother/daughter duo organizing closets and hauling trash has turned into a multi-million dollar business.

We employ 12 women who help us on jobs both in and out of the office – organizing, scheduling, creating content for our social media platforms, and helping us market our two biggest projects: our book, Love Your Home Again, and the new and improved companion course From Chaos to Calm: A Masterclass in Home Organizing.

Our passion is to make women’s lives better through organization and employment!

The Team

Kate Pawlowski

Founding Partner

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 Home was formed. Kate holds a BA in Psychology from The New School and is a graduate of The Nightingale-Bamford School on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. She’s a mom to two young boys.

Ann Lightfoot

Founding Partner

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 for 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 emotional side of organizing work second nature to her. Always comforted by an organized home, Ann was thrilled when her daughter, Kate, called for help with a decluttering and inventory 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 led Done & Done Home to have a nearly perfect hire rate after in-person consultations. Ann Lightfoot holds an MFA from The New School and a BA from Loyola University. She is a proud grandmother to Kate’s sons, James and Charlie.

Marketing Team

Emilie Stoll

VP, Strategy & Innovation

Emilie Stoll is a born and bred New Yorker.
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Emilie Stoll

VP, Strategy & Innovation

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Meg Koett

Social Media Manager & Copywriter

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Organizers

Macky Henesey

Organizer

Macky Henesey was born and raised
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Macky Henesey

Organizer

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Lise Reddin

Organizer

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Lise Reddin

Organizer

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Louise Havens

Organizer

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Louise Havens

Organizer

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Jeanne Messing

Organizer

Jeanne was born and raised in St. Louis,
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Jeanne Messing

Organizer

Jeanne was born and raised in St. Louis,
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Gail Greenberg

Organizer

Born and raised in Montreal, Gail embodies
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Gail Greenberg

Organizer

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Judy Keaney

Organizer

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Judy Keaney

Organizer

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Ulrike Ludlam

Organizer

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Ulrike Ludlam

Organizer

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Sharon Sill

Organizer

Sharon was born in the US and moved to France as a child, becoming fluent in French. After her formative years in Europe...
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Sharon Sill

Organizer

Sharon was born in the US and moved to France as a child, becoming fluent in French. After her formative years in Europe...
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