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Help us create eco-friendly furniture!
We are looking for a creative artisans to make unique furniture for upcoming staging projects! We have inherited various small pieces of furniture – like coffee tables, end tables and wooden crates from local clients and friends. The pieces have the potential but need some hands on craftiness to make them great! Here is our [...]
How I dressed 4 windows for under $60!
Normally, I don’t dress up windows in home being staged for sale but in this particular instance, the realtor/investor asked for something on the windows. Since the house is small and I staged it to feel contemporary, I didn’t want to use the standard traditional looking sheers. Plus I had to turn around these coverings [...]
Home staging storage revealed!
I know that people always wonder where home stagers keep and store the items they use in homes. Storing furniture is one thing, but what about all of the accents, vases, books, lighting, art, fake plants, dishes, glassware, fake tvs…where is that kept? Many home stagers will tell you these items are kept EVERYWHERE – [...]
How a bench lead to a barn…
As you know, I am a busy home stager in the Maryland side of the Washington DC Metro area. I recently reviewed a small home to stage later this week and was thinking about which furniture pieces that I had that would work in the space. The home has an eat-in kitchen with green painted [...]
Inaugural tweetchat for stagers successful!
I hosted the first ever tweetchat for home stagers on Twitter last night and it was a resounding success! Exciting – about 20 people interacting with great questions, conversations and tips and tricks on staging. Attendees tweeted in US and Canada, from Alabama to British Columbia and many points in between. And we tweeted over [...]
DC Hardware store window for winter 2011
For the past two holiday seasons, I have been hired by Tenleytown Ace Hardware in Washington DC to dress their store window. The set up is unique – the store itself sits under two other retailers (Container Store and Best Buy). Customers enter the store through the underground parking garage and the store space also [...]
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