Move By Design

Making moving home not just easy but “joyful” – that’s the vision of Move By Design, a Snells Beach-based company helping those facing what can be one of life’s most stressful events.

Clare Gregory-Jones is something of an expert at moving, with a family history in the furniture removal businesses in the UK, and multiple house moves herself, including immigrating to New Zealand 20 years ago.

Rather than work in the removal field, however, she pursued a career incorporating project management, aligning well with a liking for “being organised and organising things”, working with people, and keeping deadlines.

The time for a change felt right after moving from the North Shore to Snells Beach. With neither Clare nor her husband having family in New Zealand, the move was prompted by a desire to feel more connected in a small community – a desire she feels is definitely being met.

Helping people across Rodney and the wider Auckland region, the business offers a range of services tailored to a client’s needs, including sorting, de-cluttering, packing, removals and unpacking – even making beds or hanging art. On moving day itself, everything is managed, “so the client can take a back seat, go to lunch, relax”.

“Moving can be a really exciting time, a fresh start,” Clare says. But there’s this huge mountain between the life you have now and getting to that destination.

Move By Design aims to genuinely make moving easy, and help clients experience the excitement and joy of a new place from day one.

“I like making a difference,” she says. “This is my way of making a difference.”