Our story

Karen Martin, the founder, originally called her organizing business Klutter Kutters of Santa Barbara. In 2022, she decided to change the name to Curated Transitions to better reflect her superpower: Move Management. 

Early in 2024, Maya Adams prayed for a job that would make use of all her skills. Her prayer was answered when she met Karen and joined the Curated Transitions team. Karen said in their first meeting that she wanted to retire in two years. Together, Maya and Karen were able to create a smooth transition of the ownership of the business on January 1, 2026. 

 

​Maya Adams has moved 16 times, having lived up and down the East Coast, as well as in France and Germany. She took care of all of her grandmother's affairs for 20 years, including managing her grandmother's transition from her home of 50 years to a memory care community. Maya has also been selling art and antiques on eBay since 1999, shipping fragile and precious items across the country and to Europe. She is from a long line of "collectors" and inherited many precious things from both sides of her family. She is continually "right-sizing" her possessions to fit into her home so that she, too, can live an organized life. Maya was born and raised in Santa Barbara and has a 23-year-old son.  

 

Virginie Dufour joined Curated Transitions two months before Maya. Together, they learned the business and developed techniques to improve how they help their clients. Virginie had her own boutique in her hometown of Montreal, as evidenced by her expertise in closet organization and management. Virginie is an interior designer and loves the challenge of

setting up a new space as efficiently and aesthetically pleasing as possible. She is also a master of hanging art. Virginie was born and raised in Canada and has a son and a daughter, ages 19 and 21.

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Susette Vasta-Durso joined Curated Transitions in the summer of 2025. She has a background in retail, most notably at Mikasa, where she worked for 14 years, managing and opening new stores. She also assisted her cousin over the course of a year in right-sizing her home after her cousin inherited a massive collection of collectibles from her mother, Susette's aunt. Susette was born and raised in California and has a 30-year-old daughter.  

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