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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 [...]
Another successful staging chat held!
We had another rousing discussion on the weekly staging chat this Sunday! This week’s topic was contracts a great topic indeed! I was surprised to learn that some of the staging training don’t equip their students with contracts unless they sign up for annual membership. At any rate, lots of great information was shared – [...]
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 [...]
Interesting art found while shopping for staging…
So earlier today, I was out shopping for art for an upcoming staging of a 2 bedroom apartment in Silver Spring. I visited one of the local consignment stores in Beltsville and stumbled upon this piece. I thought it was an interesting piece and would LOVE to do a room centered around it but figured [...]
Home staging for DC home builder – first one, many to come!
Last week, I was contacted by a Realtor (referred by another Realtor) who represented a builder for staging. The Realtor is selling a newly constructed million dollar house, and to keep expenses down, was only looking to stage ONE space within the home. In line with a topic from a previous post, we could definitely [...]
Staging with art to add personality to vacant house
We love being challenged by small houses and rooms and saw another one in Silver Spring last week. As stated in the earlier post, this space felt like shabby chic so we did a mixture of shabby chic and just chic. The furnishings ended up mostly white or cream and added color sparingly. We were [...]
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