MERRY CHRISTMAS, HAPPY HOLIDAYS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR !!!! From HOME STYLE AND STAGING

Wishing everyone a Blessed Holiday Season. May your New Year bring good health, good friends and family !!!

  One of the many trees done by Home Style and Staging this year. Now to take them all down !!

Good Cheer to everyone !!!

SHOUT OUT TO KATHY CAYLOR, REALTOR AND PHOTOGRAPHER EXTRAORDINAIRE !!!

Check out her website www.KathyCaylor.com

Over the past couple of months HOME STYLE AND STAGING has had the pleasure of working with Kathy Caylor, ( I understand she found me here on ActiveRain, which I am most thankful !!!) Kathy and I worked on a project and within weeks the house was SOLD...now I would like to think ( and yes, I will take some credit here ) that I had something to do with this...However, she worked hard listing the home, setting up the website for the listing , and she did the photos. Awesome is the only word I can use to describe the photos that she took.

I was the one that went from room to room setting up the staging and she would come in take the photos to make what I had done look amazing.

This is the home where we used only what the homeowner had, and what they had was several items which included a wire rooster.( Elaine Maines would be proud ) That wire rooster I think we used in every room and in every photo. It should be quite famous by now, the house was sold and they had moved before I got the opportunity to make an offer on purchasing that rooster.

We just completed another staging/photo shoot and used another prop in almost every shot. I will do a post and post the photos and see if you can guess what the prop was... The owner even got involved in the process. This is another house that will sell quickly, not because of me and the staging ( even though I will take some of the credit here ) but for the outstanding work, photos, time, and energy that this lady puts into each and every home that she sells.

It has been so much fun and a learning experience working with her, Thank you Kathy for contacting me, I look forward to working with you again soon...

BEFORE AND AFTER...WITH A TWIST !!!

HOME STYLE AND STAGING recently did a staging where the owner had done some of the staging before I was asked to come into the project.

So this Before and After is BEFORE what the owner did, and the AFTER is what HOME STYLE AND STAGING was able to do with the space, this I feel is why staging should be left to the professionals. Got to hand it to them, they did try, more than I can say for some.

BEFORE: PROVIDED BY THE OWNER                             AFTER: PROVIDED BY HOME STYLE AND STAGING

Comments, anyone ?

 I moved the chairs from the corner to center of wall, took away some pillows, added rug, and you can't see but moved the prints on the wall closer together. This small room is off to the left when you enter the foyer, needed to stage so that you would not walk into a blank space.

WHEN YOU KNOW IT IS TIME TO FINALLY GET THAT YARD RAKED,Lexie and Lucie were out playing in the back yard, and when it was time to come in, well this is what I was greeted with.. It seems that there were more leaves on Lucie than in the yard. Sooooooo....I guess it is time to finally get the blower out and get the leaves up. Also, I do believe that there are more leaves in my house than outside...But you gotta love that face !!! 

  Lucie and the leaves

Yes, indeed A PICTURE IS WORTH 1,000 WORDS !!!  I recently caught Lucie, one of my miniature schnauzers laying on the couch snuggled up to a throw pillow with has "Love" written on it. I just smiled and said "I love you too, Lucie" !!! Sometimes things just come together to make all things OK..especially with a great dog ( or in my case, dogs )...Gotta love them

I DON'T CARE WHAT YOU CALL ME.. JUST CALL ME !!!!   

Yes that is correct, call me anything ( well, that is suitable for my ears ) just call me. I will come running !!!

Last week I received a voice mail and the caller was calling for HOME STYLE AND STAGING and would like to speak with Mary Lou Teague , however the last name was pronounced as " T Q".  So I returned the nice man's phone call promptly and clearly stated, "Hello this is Mary Lou Teague, with Home Style and Staging" returning your call"...he then says Oh Hello Ms "T Q", thanks for getting back to me so soon.

You know I figure he can call me "Ms T Q" all day long..as I got the job.

I will just have to make sure that when it comes time to write the check he gets the name right !!!

HOME STYLE AND STAGING received a phone call the other day from a very nice lady in Indiana, she asked the name of the color that I had used in two of the re-design bathrooms that I done. I was thinking to myself, how in theworld did she know that I did a bathroom in chocolate brown and her in Indiana ??

As the conversation continued I found out that she had "Googled" brown bathrooms and of all the ones that came up she liked the color and the accessories that I had used in mine, traced me by my website and then went to Activerain from there...WOW...all that for the name of the paint that I had used..this lady was on a mission. I asked her to please send me before and after photos so that I could share with you here on Activerain. So I am looking forward to seeing her re-design...                         

SWEET GEORGIA BROWN CAN BE PURCHASED AT LOWE'S

HOME STYLE AND STAGING  just recently hit the 100,000 points mark !!!

Then I discovered that I am in the top 50 in points for HOME STAGERS for all states....  I knew that I could look up and see my rating in my

own state ( Which I am # 2 ) just figured out how to look that up...( Yes I am a little slow !!! )

So here I go Patting myself on the back AGAIN....I find something new out everyday on ACTIVERAIN...

GOT A RE-DESIGN JOB BECAUSE OF MY LINEN CLOSET...

HOME STYLE AND STAGING was contacted last week because someone saw on FaceBook where a friend of mine had posted a photo of my linen closet.  Yes, I am kind of a neat freak...and they were probably poking alittle fun at me, but what the heck it produced a re-design job for me....

So I guess sometimes it pays to be alittle neat .....

I DID IT !!! CROSSED OVER THE 100,000 POINTS LINE !!!

HOME STYLE AND STAGING posted first blog in November 2007...and now 3 years later I am going

over 100,000 points..I never thought that I would get here !!!

BUT I have.... thinking back to that date in November 2007, I had no idea what Activerain was, what a post or blog was....I have learned so much...gained new friends...gotten exposure I never thought possible... I can google my name and company name and it comes up first...gained new friends ( oh did I say that already ? ) gotten jobs...so much from ActiveRain...thanks to everyone for reading and making comments and I would not have made it without your help....I even started 'STAGING STORIES" group that many of you have joined and posted on...it has been such a learning experience, so glad that I made the journey !!!