Portland Oregon Interior Designer Shares Tips for Home Staging, Redesign for Contemporary Architecture, Lofts and Condos

UPDATE - Thanks All! These items are sold :0) Hi All! I have been going through my staging photos and too many of them are looking the same. Time to sell some of the very successful pieces which have been shown many times. And before anyone asks ... NO, I'm not going out of business. I need to se...

Sometimes, even the nicest rooms have an awkward spot that detracts from the rest of the room. This long and very pretty galley kitchen had an open laundry area that just seemed awkward and ungainly at the end of the room. The seller had always hated the look of this open laundry area, feeling th...

After touring the main floor and upper floor of a large bungalow for our home staging consultation, the seller opened the door to the stairs heading to the dungeon .... ummm, the basement. It was currently being used as a rented studio apartment (shhh! Not a legal one) and the renter would be mov...

A few days ago I wrote a posting about low and zero VOC paints. ( See posting on Zero VOC, What's That Stand For ... Very Odd Colors? ...) However, even "zero" VOC paints can have up to 5 grams of the various toxins per liter. One of the people commenting on my post mentioned that even those can ...

Well, yesterday I received not one, but TWO inquiries about the art seen in my posted photos with the specific request to post a blog about my art. Cynthia Bartsch & Debra Rowley - Thank you both for your inquiries and for your kind compliments about my work. When you see a painting in my photos,...

                 Being in the Interior Design and Home Staging world, I know a lot about paint. I suppose that I began to take it for granted that everyone knows what low VOC and Zero VOC paints are. Silly me! Today I'm going out on a paint color consultation. When speaking with my client on the ...

Here's a sofa that is as sustainable and eco friendly as can possibly be while simultaneously looking so very stylish! Everything about this sofa from Pure by Amy McKay is Earth Friendly. The seat padding is natural latex, which is tapped from rubber trees, and emits no toxic gases. It is covered...

One of my favorite sustainable products used in modern interior design is Kirei Board. It is manufactured from reclaimed sorghum straw and no-added-formaldehyde adhesive. It has a beautiful coloration and pattern to it that makes it a real stand-out. You can buy panels of Kirei board just the sam...

On the surface neither one of these homes seemed like the type to be snapped up in a single day on the market. The tract home was rather nondescript ... master bedroom had no attached bathroom, and it backed up to a busy and noisy street. The bungalow had 3 bedrooms and only 1 tiny bathroom ... r...

Is this how the faces looked in your office meeting the last time you had a presentation from a home stager?  Then, I beg of you, help your peers out. Save them from a presentation that is boring, irrelevant or irritating. Many real estate agents are using home staging as a successful selling st...