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Creating the Va-Va-Voom Room - 04/14/08 01:47 PM
It's not just design work - it takes a lot more than that. And it's a bit like a cake recipe.
Mix together a knowledge of popular colors...an ability to display things creatively...ESP about potential buyers...a pinch of magic...a cluster of enchantment...and stir together to create "sizzle."
In the hands of a staging expert - presto - a va-va-voom room!
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The March Of The Chotchkes - 04/05/08 09:23 PM
It was a 911 call - an emergency intervention.  Chotchkes had taken over the home of a grandmother! 
There were colonies of them - big chotchkes, small chotchkes.  Call the exterminator!  Oh!...I was the exterminator!
My job was to exterminate the chotchkes in order to stage the house for sale.  Three days, a crew of 3 and over 100 boxes later, the deed was done - no more chotchkes.  We could finally see the house, have it thoroughly cleaned and stage it so it could be put on the market. 
After living in this property for over 50 years this lovely lady … (1 comments)

Sometimes You Just Can't Get The Furniture Up The Steps - 04/01/08 07:21 PM
I work on many tiny Philadelphia homes - tiny living rooms, tiny kitchens and tiny, winding stairways.  Some of these houses are so tiny that builders or owners have cut trap doors into the bedroom floors so the furniture can be heaved from the first floor to the second and from the second floor to the third. 
Unfortunately, there have been no trap doors in the houses I have worked on.  All the tiny houses I work on require tiny furniture and creative strategies to stage upper floor bedrooms. 
In one itty-bitty house with only one bedroom, we couldn't get a … (1 comments)

 

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