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Home Stager - Owner, The Refreshed Home White Plains NY
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2012 

SURPRISE! Having a property professionally prepared for sale (a.k.a. "Staging") guarantees nothing. Teamwork is what does it every time. Consider Home Staging to be that proverbial third leg of the stool: Sure, it clears away the obstacles between For Sale, and SOLD. But Home Staging supports a s...
08/29/2012
Tomorrow marks the start of the the US Tennis Open in Flushing Meadows Park, in Queens, New York, which means yesterday was Arthur Ashe Kids'Day. The annual kick-off event for the US Open since 1993, it's a combination tennis-entertainment-charity event that commemorates tennis legend Ashe's comm...
08/26/2012
FAQs: "When Can I See Your Portfolio?" Faithful readers know this series is about snappy answers to questions everyone asks, or thinks about asking. Today's post is an epic departure, for two reasons. First-this question hasn't actually come up before the other day, AND I didn't have an answer h...
08/25/2012
Regular readers know I am a big baseball fan, but I had never heard of MLB umpire Jim Joyce before summer of 2010...then in an unlikely confluence of events, he burst into probably all our consciousnesses. Doug and I had attended a high school lacrosse game that evening. It was a spirited rivalry...
08/21/2012
Facts have never been as intriguing to me as people, and their personal experience has. I am a curious person, and understanding another's circumstances fully paints a more complete and memorable picture. For several years now Doug has wanted to see the WWII vintage planes at the traveling Wings ...
08/20/2012
A few days ago had started writing about a project I've been watching, and was now going to be participating in. The 1950s ranch house at 64 Holbrooke Road in White Plains has been transformed into an eco-friendly model of green building, and is going for Gold LEED certification, I'm helping styl...
08/17/2012
Over the winter of 2009-20010 homeowner Gerry Angel paid about $1000.00 per month to heat her 1850 square-foot ranch. This coming winter she's thinking around $100.00 a month for her newly re-designed, now 2900 square foot house. Maybe. Today starts a mini-series about a local project that is ver...
08/12/2012
In the 80s and 90s, there was little talk of how someone "felt" when they were buying things and doing stuff to their house. Everything was about the visual. People spoke, and thought in singular, visionary words: stunning, gorgeous, elegant. Then feelings entered the picture again....tentatively...
08/11/2012
An individual's right to vote is held very dearly by The Refreshed Home...who also decries anyone who wants to mess with that. ANYONE. Are you registered to vote? As we journey through the last weeks of summer, November seems oh-so-far-away. But anyone who treasures this right needs to be more c...
08/10/2012
Welcome back to FAQs-the series where the specialty is snappy answers to your most burning questions on home decor, and home selling. "SO-what's WRONG with my wallpaper??" is a big, big question these days. And the short answer is usually nothing is wrong with your wallpaper...per se. But this i...
08/09/2012
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