Real moves, real homes

A move, from the first box to the first night.

Every stage of a Settled In by Tina move, in 53 photos: the packing days, the truck, the storage run, the unpacking, and the moment a new place starts to feel like home. Browse by the part of the move you are thinking about, and tap any photo to see it larger.

Packing days

Wrapped, labeled, and inventoried, room by room. We pack the way unpacking works best: everything grouped by the room it is going to, and nothing left to guess.

A bedroom filled with neatly stacked moving boxes, the bed wrapped and the closet emptied — A bedroom packed and ready before move day

A bathroom counter sorted into groups of toiletries and daily items, ready to be packed — Sorting the bathroom down to the daily essentials

A craft room with flat boxes and packing supplies, projects sorted by category — A craft room boxed by category, supplies kept together

A kitchen with cabinets emptied and color-coded boxes stacked on the counters — Kitchen packed and stacked, cabinets empty

Tina wrapping kitchen dishes in packing paper at a counter — Tina wrapping dishes the careful way

Tina spreading clean packing paper over a kitchen island to wrap fragile pieces — Clean packing paper for every fragile piece

Tina sorting clothes on hangers inside a walk-in closet — Sorting a closet down to what is actually worn and used

Two team members unwrapping a keepsake together over an open box — Unwrapping keepsakes with care

Tina and a team member carrying a large framed piece together through a doorway — Large pieces go out as a team

Jackson writing a room label on the side of a moving box — Jackson labels every box by room

Jackson labeling a moving box in a room full of packed boxes — A label now makes unpacking simple later

A team member sealing a moving box with packing tape — Sealed and labeled before it ever leaves the room

Tina and her son Jackson packing boxes together in a bedroom — Tina and Jackson packing a bedroom together

Tina holding a moving box in the evening with warm lights behind her — A late evening of packing, nearly done

Move day & storage

Trucks loaded in the right order, boxes carried out by the team, and storage runs handled when the new place is not quite ready.

Color-coded moving boxes with room labels stacked tall in a living room — Color-coded and room-labeled, ready for the truck

Jackson carrying a large U-Haul box through a home on move day — Jackson moving a wardrobe box out

Tina carrying a large moving box down a hallway — Tina carrying another box out the door

Tina carrying a moving box past a sofa toward the front door — Boxes out the front door, one at a time

Tina carrying a moving box through a garage — Working through the garage on move day

Tina organizing boxes inside a storage unit — A storage unit sorted and organized

Tina walking through a storage unit with a box under her arm — We label storage so nothing gets lost in it

Tina carrying a box toward a row of blue storage unit doors — Delivering a box to storage

A smiling senior couple standing at their front door next to a welcome sign and a moving box — A warm welcome home at the end of move day

Unpacking & settling in

Same-day setup means the bed is made, the kitchen works, and the photos are hung before the first night. Here is what families walk into when we are done.