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Designer Lighting Impacts Renovation With Great Reward!
For years, we have been assuring home owners that a key upgrade when competing with new construction is designer lighting. Once you have recessed “pots” (they’re called by the pros) you have a hidden advantage: the overall ability to see what’s in each room is greatly enhanced. Plus,it is one of the many big differentiators of…
Read MoreDowners Grove Home With “Scenic View of Airstrip”
You see RVs in peoples’ driveway. Boats, too. Why not a private plane? Especially when you live on a private airstrip, your plane is your car? We could have taken the airplane motif and played it out with airplane accessories and art, but as they say in the Midwest, that would be like “Clown Pants”. Instead, we focused on…
Read MoreMaple MakeOver Needed A More General Personal Style
Sometimes a home is nice, with all the basics covered, but it may not photograph well. Since we all reach for Google when starting any kind of search today, every house listed for sale needs a personality and a warm welcome to stand out. This might seem a conundrum: stagers are always telling home owners to remove…
Read MoreAccent Walls – Caution Ahead!
Modern Family Room by Los Angeles Interior Designers & Decorators Annette English Accent Walls There are lots of good reasons to have an accent wall. And as populare as they were in the 80s and 90s, they remain as stylish and useful today. For example: If you love open plan living, but want to subtly…
Read MoreHome Staging Before And After Photos From West Chicago
When I need design inspiration I go to Home Staging Before And After Photos. I love seeing the magic my fellow staging professionals can create. And so, in that spirit, I’m going to share a recent project in West Chicago. We wanted to bring out the brick fireplace and yet suggest Spring. The blue teal accents…
Read MorePortage Park Vacant Staging Comes Alive
Sometimes when we walk into a space, it’s hard to imagine what it is going to turn into. Fortunately, we know these developers well and love the way they can add detail and possibilities to a house. This vacant staging in the Chicago neighborhood of Portage Park is a beautiful gut rehab. Once all the…
Read MoreSt. Charles Staging Pulls Together Eclectic Decor
You can tell this going to be a cheerful house. The exterior is reminiscent of Storybook style, or as it’s often known Hollywood Whimsy, where the curved, steep gables evoke a Hansel and Gretel feel. Usually these houses are mostly Tudor but with a couple of idiosyncratic, fun other elements. When we were invited to stage the…
Read MoreNaperville Home Staging Gig Goes Younger and Brighter
This Naperville home staging project was a house we knew well. We had staged it when the owner still lived there, and once they moved out, we came back in with our own furniture and accessories. It is a large house, located in a part of downtown Naperville where the lots tend to be smaller. The…
Read More2015 NAR Home Staging Profile
The National Association of Realtors released its 2015 Profile of Home Staging recently. 2300 realtors participated from throughout the United States. The results have caused some home stagers to be thrilled and others to scratch their heads. Here are the results we thought were the most interesting. The full report can found here. Most people…
Read MoreKitchen Staging Ideas: Too Far vs. Not Far Enough
Kitchen Staging Ideas proliferate, but it takes a delicate touch to get a kitchen exactly right. The whole scenario relies on how you treat the counters. The biggest mistake we see home owners make is in clearing the counters off and leaving nothing there at all. This bare presentation leaves potential buyers with nothing to look at,…
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