Home Staging- Living/Dining Combination Before & Afters

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Home Staging, Home Staging Tips

 

I had two main goals in staging this room.

One was to take the focus off of the furniture and plants and draw your eyes through the room. It was beautiful furniture for sure,  but when you entered the room, I felt that was what your eyes were drawn to, not the entire space. It was a huge room with an adjoining dining area and I wanted the buyers to see how big the room was.

The second was to use the fireplace as a focal point. To do that I re-arranged the two club chairs, placing them in front of the fireplace. Moving them created a great place to sit and enjoy the fire.

I also added some colorful pillows to the sofa and reworked the accessories in the room, all coming from different areas of the home. The dining room table lost its covering and wall hangings.

A hint when putting your home on the market…. remember it is now a product for sale and you live in it different than you market/sell it, especially if you want top dollar.

If you would like a consultation or need help staging your home, please contact me.

Stripes Update

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Decorating, Living room, Paint, projects

I hate to paint….but I love to pick paint colors and I also love what just a little paint can do for a space. Our living room is very small, only about 12 x 20ish. I have the walls painted to dark but I do NOT want to repaint because well… I hate to paint. So, I thought just doing a little stripe treatment on the short back wall would do the trick and I’m pretty happy with the results. The room is getting a redesign for fall and because it’s just plain time.  I’ll post the finished product later. Here are just a couple before and after photos of the stripe project that we he did last weekend.

This is Frog tape (the actual brand name) works great...no bleeding.

Final product, bad lighting.

 

Happy Weekend to everyone!

Monday Motivation

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Motivation, Quotes

I am happily very busy…….BUT,

I have so many projects going on and things that I need to get done, I sometimes feel very overwhelmed.

I am painting and redecorating, working on my Home Staging portfolio, a 30th anniversary gift for my husband and a couple of photo albums. All of this while working, trying to fit in my exercise class, helping the hubby with his to-do list and all the other normal daily chores we have.  I am sure that I am one of the million of us mothers,wives and daughters that have this dilemma.

Looking for some inspiration this Monday, I clicked on my (in)courage button (found on the right side of my blog) and found some very bright, beautiful canvas art and other frames with passages from the Bible.  I love many of them but the one I have shown above seems to fit me this morning.

The author of this passage (May your cup overflow) was probably talking about a different kind of overflow, one with love not just pure busyness but I’d like to think that I/we can do both. I just want to be careful that I don’t get my cup so overfilled with life that I forget to do the right things.  Does anyone else have this problem?

“It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants.  The question is; What are we busy about?” ~ Henry David Thoreau

“No thoroughly occupied person was ever found really miserable.” ~Walter Landor

 Happy new Week!

DIY Painting Project

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Decorating, Living room, projects

In preparation for my fall decorating, I am going to try to paint some stripes on two of my living room walls. I will post before and after photos when I’m done.  I have been taking photos of my home for practice for home staging and realized just how boring my living room really is. Everything in the room is the same color. I added a bit of pizzaz with a throw and pillow for summer but that’s it. It is really boring…didn’t I say that already?

I found some stripes on the web for inspiration and thought I would share them.  I am going to use one or two shades lighter than my existing paint (should be cheap) and try using glaze on top of the new stripe. I only have two very short walls but I think that it will add some texture and depth to them.

Then, the plan is to add a couple of colorful window panels to my windows, new fall pillows and accessories and have it all done sometime around Labor Day. Pottery Barn has some great new fall accessories, check them out at www.potterybarn.com.   Does anyone else change-up the house for fall? If you do share your stories with me! I would love to hear from you.

Summer Weekend

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Grandkids, Quotes

 

I was lucky enough to be able to spend the weekend with my grand-daughter, Madi.

We went for a wagon ride………

~went school clothes shopping

~ taught her how to arrange flowers

~went to the “Big Pool”

~and to the movie.

Ate, ice cream, popcorn, slushies, sweet tarts, pancakes and hot dogs…oh my!

“Our grandchildren accept us for ourselves, without rebuke or effort to change us, as no one in our entire lives has ever done, not our parents, siblings, spouses, friends and ~hardly ever our grown children.” ~Ruth Goode

 

Monday Motivation

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Motivation, Quotes

This message speaks to my heart. As I have gotten older I now have a clearer understanding of who I am and what I want. I am learning to pick my battles and let things go. The years go by so fast don’t they? But, maybe that is the way it is supposed to be, maybe we as humans couldn’t withstand time that stood still. The grand design from above, God knew what he was doing after all! Just something to ponder on this Monday.

Dog Love

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Dogs, Visual Merchandising

Once a month I do merchandising for a client in local pet stores. My favorite part of these assignments is that I get to see all of the animals. I spend more time talking to (you know what I mean) the animals and perusing through the adoption cages than I do working. So, I thought I would share some of the dogs I got to meet this week while working.

~ Missy and she even waved goodbye to me!

~two sisters named Tessa and Bejiuo

 

~ Jasime, one of my personal favorites.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

~ Gracie

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

~ Junior, he was shaking though, not sure he was so happy.

 

~My girls, Ally and Maisy waiting for me when I got home.