Home Staging Seminar in Huntington NY - March 24th 2011

Make Your Home a Buyer Magnet: We are holding our 3rd Home Staging Seminar on March 24th from 6-9PM in Huntington NY.  It's being held at our studio - 325 Main Street, right in the heart of Huntington Village.  If you want to make sure that you will be ready for the Spring Selling Season - this event will help you to get your home or listing in top shape.

Learn the latest staging ideas such as ...

• Lifestyle staging
• Target market staging
• Find out how to create great curb appeal (do you know all the things that may turn a buyer off - so that they never come back to look at your home again?)
• The major mistakes most homesellers make that lose the sale
• The art of hanging art
• Quick staging your kitchen and bath
• How to take better photos of your home
• And much more

Here's the link to the Home Staging Seminar Info & Registration Page

Another Great Tip to Repair a Peeling, Cracking Ceiling

Bad Ceiling in Your Bathroom or Elsewhere?  Try this!

I have repaired many a ceiling in my career - with sheetrock, with plaster - and with styrofoam ceiling tiles,  and other products.  But I just came across this website and company called Ceilume - Better Than Tin and I have to say that I think they have a great product.   Especially if you are "pressed" - pardon the tin joke - for time, this product can repair your ugly ceilings in a flash (oh...almost a tin pun...just an aluminum pun!)

Take a look at this Before & After from their website (sent in by a homeowner)...

Before...oh boy I've seen that many times

After...so much better!

So, please check out their website and think about using this great product - especially if you are thinking of selling (or are selling) - it's a quick and beautiful fix!

The company's president - Ed Davis (and he has to be great - that's my mother's maiden name!!), sent me a great video that they have posted on YouTube. Click below.

They also have replacement tiles for drop ceilings - which are more beautiful and so much easier (and safer and cleaner) to replace than mineral tiles. I think that this company has some great ideas to make your home's ceiling truly a standout!

They also have other video...so check them out here

If you would love to have your home beautifully staged so that you can sell quickly and for more money, please contact me at 631 793-1315 or Email Me

Beautiful Staged Homes: Today's Top Staging Tips: Does Your Home Have a "Hook?"

Beautiful Staged Homes: Today's Top Staging Tips: Does Your Home Have a "Hook?"

Today's Top Staging Tips: Does Your Home Have a "Hook?"

Some Top Staging Tips for Today

#1: Just like a popular song that you recognize and remember easily, your home needs a “hook” - something that makes your home different, in a positive way, from the other houses in your area or price range. What’s your home’s “hook,” the emotional tug that will have a buyer remembering your home fondly? In this beautiful beach house bunk bed below - this is a memorable feature that buyers and renters would recall easily...just like a memorable song!

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#2: Are you on a busy street or near the railroad – any area that would create excess noise in your home? There are noise reducing windows available that will help cut down on the noise. Another less expensive idea would be to put bookcases on the walls nearest the noisy area and fill it with books. The books will act as insulation and will reduce some of the noise. And lastly, our studio can apply noise reducing specialty plasters to the walls (we do this mostly in media rooms) and this is a very decorative way to cut down on the offending noise.

Image SourceAn armoire or bookcase filled with books can soften buyer-killer noise in a beautiful way! Hope you enjoyed these quick tips. 

If you would love to have your home beautifully staged so that you can sell quickly and for more money, please contact me at 631 793-1315.  Or Email me

 

A New Home Staging in Beechhurst NY

A Beautiful Waterfront Condo That Used to be Part of the Hammerstein Estate

We just completed a beautiful staging in Queens for realtor Pat Bourgeois of Coldwell Banker R. Weir in Bayside NY. This is a fantastic home but the layout was troublesome. Here are some of the things that we did - in a day without any furniture rental.

Before:  Left side of Living room

Before:  Left side of Living Room

After:  Left Side of Living Room

After:  Right Side of Living Room

Before:  Too Much Pink in a Bedroom

After:  Adding a Green Coverlet Softened the Pink

Before:  Kitchen

After: Kitchen

After:  Kitchen

Before: Room that was the Kitchen, but had no Function other than the "Dog's Room"

After:  A Sitting Room/Office

Before: An Extra Bedroom - but this was the first thing you'd see when entering

After:  Much better.  The bed is now the focal point

Before:  The Master Bedroom

Before:  Other Side of Master Bedroom

After:  Without the trunk at the foot of the bed, it makes the room more spacious. 



 I tried to get the home seller to remove the TV - but no dice.  A collection of the homeowner's hats look so much better on the walls than the hatboxes!

Before: Mater Bath

After:  Master Bath

After:  This basement space had nothing in it.  We added function with a bed and seating

After: Another part of the basement that was empty and we made more functional. 

We brought down the chunky seating from the living room.  Here is serves a better purpose. The entire basement could be used as a guest suite. (The homeseller was donating the items to the right!)

Before: Another section of the basement that was just a catch all

After:  Now a place to exercise