PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZING & PLAY SPACE DESIGN FOR HOMES & BUSINESSES
Tidy Spaces, Happy Faces.
What We Create
Space to Play designs small, thoughtfully curated play environments that feel inviting for children, and easy for adults.
Each setup is built around open-ended, low-mess materials that encourage independent play without overwhelming the environment.
Whether you’re creating a space for your customers or your own family, the goal is the same: a place where children feel engaged, and everyone else feels at ease.
Our Services
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For your Home
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For your Business
For Businesses
We partner with cafés, wineries, and hospitality spaces to create family-friendly environments that enhance the customer experience. Our play spaces:
Keep children engaged so parents can relax, stay longer, and spend more
Create a family-friendly experience without adding work for your staff
Provide a clean, cohesive play space with ongoing care and seasonal refreshes included
It’s a simple way to create a welcoming, family-friendly experience — helping guests stay longer and come back more often.
Imagine families coming back to your business time and again, raving about what a warm, welcoming, family friendly space you have.
For Families
Together, we create play spaces in your home that offer:
Calm, engaging play spaces children can return to again and again.
Open-ended, screen-free activities that encourage imagination and independent play
Thoughtfully designed environments where children settle in — and parents can exhale.
By our last session, you will find it easier to clean up with your kiddos, leaving bedrooms, living rooms and play areas company- ready in under ten minutes, even on the busiest days. Kid spaces at your place of business will be neat, tidy and welcoming for guests each time they visit.
Our focus is on helping both families and businesses declutter and organize spaces for kids including play rooms, living rooms, kids bedrooms and outdoor play spaces. Our goal is for you to have aesthetically pleasing play spaces that function well for the whole family. Spaces that are easy to clean up, keep organized and most importantly, fun to play in. We provide solutions tailored to your space, your children and your personal preferences. We will work together to come up with solutions to edit your tornado of kid stuff, maximize playable space, and make it easy to keep tidy.
If your floor is littered with sharp toys to step on, you couch is covered in piles of clothes, baskets, bins and shelves are overflowing with kid clutter and the piles in the closet are so deep you can’t remember if it’s filled with legos or a live moose, we can help. Allow us to help you calm the chaos, reclaim your space and your peace of mind. The Space to Play team will work with you to organize your space and teach you skills to have your kids help you keep it that way!
We are discrete, non judgemental and fun to work with. We have always seen a bigger mess than yours (we’ve had piles that touched the ceiling, no joke!) What are you waiting for?
SORT AND PURGE ITEMS THAT NO LONGER SERVE YOU
DECLUTTER EFFICIENTLY WITH AN OBJECTIVE EYE
CREATE CUSTOM SPACES THAT SUIT YOUR FAMILY OR BUSINESS
OVERCOME EMOTIONAL BLOCKS PREVENTING YOUR SPACE FROM STAYING ORGANIZED
IDENTIFY BEST USES FOR YOUR SPACE, BASED ON YOUR PERSONAL NEEDS
BUILD HABITS THAT BOOST PLAY & TEACH KIDS TO STAY ORGANIZED
The Space to Play Family Pathway
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At our virtual introductory meeting, we will:
analyze your current layout
discuss your and your children’s needs and preferences
outline any tasks for you to tackle before our first organizing session
We will get to know each other, discuss your goals and preferred outcomes, and take a small tour of the spaces you wish to organize and come up with a strategy together. At that time we will discuss how many sessions we think it may take to achieve your goals. We promise that all sessions are tailored to your specific needs. Intro sessions are offered virtually through Google Meet and generally last 30 minutes.
Cost- Virtual Consultation- $50 (consultation fee is applied to your first in home service)
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We currently service Santa Barbara county including Buellton, Solvang, Santa Ynez Valley, Lompoc, Goleta and Santa Barbara.
Private Homes - 3 hour min.
Our rates for organizing start at $100/hour for private homes in the Santa Ynez Valley, with additional travel fees depending on your location within Santa Barbara county. We generally recommend at least one 3-4 hour session per room. We always stop at 4 hours to keep us all productive and fresh. Many rooms can be accomplished in 4-6 hours with smaller spaces moving more quickly and larger or more crowded spaces taking longer. Consultation required - book one today!
Cost: VariesBusinesses – 2 hour min.
Rates start at $150/hour for play space set up with additional services such as furniture ordering and assembly and themed play areas available.
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We offer special 1.5 hour maintenance sessions to our returning clients to help maintain or refresh previously organized spaces. While we know we will leave your space well organized, there is always room for improvements or adjustments as your needs change and grow.
Cost: $150 for a 1.5 hour session.
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FAQs
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Our minimum rate is $350, which includes an introductory consultation, and a three hour organizing session which is enough time to complete one small play space and get you started on your organizing journey. Returning clients can take advantage of our ‘refresh package” for 1.5 hours of maintenance for any space we have tackled before for $150.
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That completely depends on both your space and capacity. Most backyard play areas can be completed in around 4 hours, kids rooms in 4- 6 hours, and living rooms in 6-10. Garages tend to take 10 hours or more, with any crowded, filled up areas taking longer.
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I have been decluttering my whole life. Living in 38 homes in 30 years, I had a LOT of chances to clean, declutter and reorganize with each move. Over time I learned to love the process, and especially the results. I started my business in 2025, after 8 years of market research and years of providing free organizing services to friends and family. Over time I noticed that it wasn't the closet reorganizations, the bathroom and kitchen redos or the garage makeovers that bought me the most satisfaction. What I truly love is knowing I am making a difference in your family's quality of life. My absolute favorite way to help your family is to help you edit the chaos of kid stuff, organize it and leave you with a delightful place to play, everyday.
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I have over 29 years of experience in outdoor education and especially love helping you set up outdoor play spaces filled with enriching, open-ended play materials that will keep your children occupied for hours at a time, freeing you up to relax or work on other projects. I’ve set up engaging play stations for families living on multiple acres and families with a 10x10 fenced in patio. I’m excited to come into your home and see how we can partner together in making sure your outdoor space serves your family well for years to come.
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Many kids have favorite toys and we would NEVER encourage you to get rid of the special things they play with. We will discuss favorite toys at our initial consultation and focus on culling the toys that are broken, missing pieces, never played with or played with once before being banished to no man's land. Most clients are surprised and pleased at how willing their kids are to work together to get rid of the clutter.
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Sure, go ahead and pick up trash, food, pets, slimy things or anything that looks like a science project. When we have our initial consultation we will choose a place to start and go over any tasks to do and materials to gather before our first session.
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While we are not a cleaning service, your space will end up refreshed, organized and ready to play.
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It is impossible to effectively clean or organize your home without dealing with your clutter first. Most of us are blessed with more material goods than we can actually handle, or even enjoy. Dealing with your possessions by sorting, and donating will make your home look cleaner instantly and VASTLY improve your ability to calm the chaos quickly. Less stuff makes it easy for your kids to be your “keeping it clean” allies.
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If any of that has worked for you, great! With today's fast paced lifestyle, and especially for families with children, the simple everyday tasks of putting things away often gets neglected. Most of us, myself included, have let our “I’ll do it tomorrow’s” turn into “ I’ll never get it done now because this pile is so big so I’ll just ignore it and start a new pile somewhere else”.
bio
Ashley Jenkins is a happy wife and mom of 3 wild boys, a Belgian Malnois, two kitties, and a leopard Gecko. She is the Founder of Space to Play and loves nothing more than calming the chaos for busy families. As an outdoor educator Ashley has a wide breadth of experience including running corporate trainings and Challenge courses in Santa Barbara and San Diego Counties, teaching kids cooking courses in San Diego Schools, running arts programs for Boys and Girls Clubs, teaching at an all outdoor pre-school and so much more. She has designed and completed creative and play spaces for children and families of all backgrounds from one bedroom tiny homes to large businesses and everywhere in between.
