chic home interiors: RainCamp 2009 - Home Staging Photosynth
- 12/03/09 01:53 AM
I had the privilege of attending the San Francisco RainCamp yesterday and came away with a cramped hand from trying to write faster than I could even take in all the information. But I am energized to try and incorporate all that I learned from these amazing people into my business. I am inspired and so day by day, I intend to open myself to doing things outside of my comfort zone because "what got me here, won't get me there" (I think this is a quote from Ben Kinney but may have been from Bob Stewart... like I said, I (16 comments)
chic home interiors: Do you know someone who would like to be a stager?
- 10/18/09 09:42 AM
Are you a Realtor who has worked with a client whose home looked like a professional stager had already been hired? Do you work with an agent that has more passion for assisting the client with the preparation to sell then they do for actually closing the sale? Do you have an assistant who could be trained to handle this aspect of working with clients, who you would like have trained professionally? If your answer to any of these questions is “yes”, then do them a favor and let them know about the upcoming Certified Staging Professional courses being offered in (1 comments)
I am so excited, I am on my way to Dallas to speak at the Texas Association of REALTORS® Convention. My subject is "Staging is not Decorating - Maximize Results Through Home Staging!" and it is approved for 3 hours CE Credit, which is great because it is 3 hours long...
I am giving the course 2 times - morning and afternoon on Monday, September 14th. I hope some of you will come see me, I'd hate to be up there for 6 hours talking to myself!
I promise it will not only be informative (7 comments)
Welcome to 4100 Reinhardt Drive in the Redwood Heights neighborhood of Oakland. You'll find this lovingly updated home sited between two beautiful oaks on a large 10,000+ sqft lot with a level fenced yard and patio that's open yet private--perfect for entertaining. With the living space all on one-level, this private residence boasts a wonderful, family-friendly floor plan featuring a large upgraded cook's kitchen as its centerpiece. Top-of-the-line Viking/Miele/Bosch/Thermador/Dacor SS appliances stand proud on hardwood (3 comments)
chic home interiors: Living Room, 4100 Reinhardt Drive, Oakland, CA
- 06/21/09 11:50 AM
Here is the living room of this fabulous property, very spacious, gracious living at it's best. Hope you like it as much as buyers did. Two open houses, three offers - all over list...
Welcome to 4100 Reinhardt Drive in the Redwood Heights neighborhood of Oakland. You'll find this lovingly updated home sited between two beautiful oaks on a large 10,000+ sqft lot with a level fenced yard and patio that's open yet private--perfect for entertaining. With the living space all on one-level, this private residence boasts a wonderful, family-friendly floor plan featuring a large upgraded cook's kitchen as (0 comments)
chic home interiors: Kitchen, 4100 Reinhardt Drive, Oakland, CA
- 06/20/09 04:28 PM
Kelly House Active Rain This is such a great house, we dicided it deserved several blogs, here is the kitchen. Hope you like it as much as buyers did. Two open houses, three offers - all over list...
Welcome to 4100 Reinhardt Drive in the Redwood Heights neighborhood of Oakland. You'll find this lovingly updated home sited between two beautiful oaks on a large 10,000+ sqft lot with a level fenced yard and patio that's open yet private--perfect for entertaining. With the living space all on one-level, this private residence boasts a wonderful, family-friendly floor plan featuring a large (1 comments)
chic home interiors: Neutralize the Competition!
- 06/20/09 02:59 PM
Staging is not decorating or design; staging is a marketing tool for selling a house and, as such, should be a part of every real estate professional's toolkit. As in all marketing we want to target our audience and appeal to the largest potential base of that buying demographic. That is where a professional home stager comes in. Today's professional stager continually educates themselves in what the market trends are and in-depth marketing knowhow. A stager has to understand the psychology of the buyer and have an understanding of scale, design, and color. Today's market requires a more sophisticated approach to preparing a home (12 comments)
chic home interiors: Your Clients will Love You – Give the Gift of Color!
- 06/01/09 12:09 PM
A color consultation for the new home can be a great client gift at the close of escrow. I have been working on a Color Consultation this week with a new homeowner client. We are using the Dewey Color System to create a personalized room by room color palette throughout the house. I n a couple of the rooms we took our inspiration from an existing piece. In others, we started from scratch with no preconceived notions. The Dewey Color System is designed to ensure the finished product speaks to the individual client, ensuring that each room in their home brings (20 comments)
chic home interiors: Adjustment to... Live Green Live Smart Certification Class at the Contra costa Association of Realtors
- 05/11/09 05:41 PM
Well folks, I am constantly reminded how smart I am not... I just spent forty five minutes trying to make a picture of a flier for a class I am teaching and get it ready to put on my blog. I succeeded at that but totally failed at figuring out how to also say something personal about it... I definitely am a little rusty at this... which is a funny thing to say considering I've only really been contributing on ActiveRain for 5 months. And yet somehow managed to get out of the habit already... Anyway, this blog is to make up (4 comments)
chic home interiors: Active Rain Twittering
- 04/16/09 06:54 AM
I've discovered a great way to increase my followers and get good folks to follow, specifically real-estate-related folks on twitter. I set myself up on TweetDeck and then did a search on "active rain". It becomes a column in TweetDeck where you can easily keep updated on everyone who has set up twitter to tweet whenever they write a blog post on active rain. So now, whenever I am on TweetDeck (which is how I usually interface with twitter (it is much more user friendly) I can peruse both the twitter profile and the active rain profile of anyone who (13 comments)
chic home interiors: Staging Lessons Learned - Living Rooms I
- 02/28/09 03:58 PM
Occupied homes are a very different challenge than staging a vacant property. While not as much inventory is needed, the stager's challenge requires more flexibility and creativity. I love working in an occupied home for just that reason, it really gets my creative juices flowing, using the client's own possessions in a new way, with a fresh eye that takes the individual owner out of it while attracting many more potential individuals as buyers.
Replacing some pieces to bring in some color, interest and balance to this beautiful Lafayette living room was the first step. Removing the too personal family (27 comments)