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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 [...]
Custom drapery leads to a morning of sleep
(Recently I have been asked by a number of people for pictures of custom drapery installations. So I thought I would blog about our most recent project…) Last fall, I was contacted by a local DC professional running away from the light, rather than towards it! He wanted to block out all of the light [...]
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 [...]
DC Interior Designer hits up ICFF on way to Blogfest 2011!
Just last week, I had the good fortune to attend Blogfest 2011, a first-of-its-kind event for interior design bloggers. The three day event was sponsored by Kravet, and it was an amazing event! My hats goes off to the entire Kravet team, for being such great hosts! Blogfest 2011 was held in NYC and started [...]
Design inspiration for DC based home stager!
Last week, I had the good fortune to be completely inspired by a few different events and activities. First was a talk at the DC Design Center by Eddie Ross. Eddie is a master at photo styling interiors. He works or has worked with numerous magazines and was really insightful for the designers in attendance [...]
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