Redesign In Atlanta Before&After

Atlanta occupied home staging - gallery for sugerloaf home

Misako Kasai Interior Design& Home Staging In Atlanta (RedesignInAtlanta) — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 22:24:26 -0500

I haven't finished whole house. I upload this gallery here for his agent can take a look staging photos. I thought I was getting better but I am still too sick to move around. I will take only ocuppied home staging only for a while till I feel better. If you have requests for vacant staging in Atlanta area, I will reffer you vacant staging specialist for you. Misako more info at http://redesigninatlanta.com

Enjoy a brand new bedroom till moving day! Bedroom- BEFORE&AFTER

Misako Kasai Interior Design& Home Staging In Atlanta (RedesignInAtlanta) — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 21:19:44 -0500

I had a request for occupied home staging. My client wanted makeover with what they alreay have at home. He wrote a list of what he likes to purchase for his new future home - new comforter set, lamps, and pictures on wall. I selected items for each room within budget. They already have large silk trees and nice area rug hiding in other room.

I hope my clients can enjoy great night sleeps in brand new bedroom before moving day comes!!

REVISE: BEFORE and After and After...

Misako Kasai Interior Design& Home Staging In Atlanta (RedesignInAtlanta) — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 23:48:32 -0500

How have you beeen!! I have beeeeen on morning sickness for last couple of weeks. I couldn't even get up to pick up the phone. I had to say sorry to the people who I have to cancel my appointments.

I feel much better today so I decided to upload some of my pictures I forgot to add. With extra greenery and accent pillows. I bring more colors to the living room.

I met a lot of nice people through AR. Thank you so much for cheering and caring my health.

I will take only light job for a while till I pass through my morning sickness time. After that... I am not sure how I can handle with my big belly, but I try not to stress too much and enjoy my next 7 months!

BROOKHEAVEN BEFORE&AFTER

Misako Kasai Interior Design& Home Staging In Atlanta (RedesignInAtlanta) — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 15:35:54 -0500

Hi, I almost finish staging this property in Brookheavn area, Buckhead. My client decided to purchase whole furniture and accessories instead of rent to sell them together with this house.

I enjoyed selecting furniture for my client. Especially, a long dining table and leather & wicker chairs and a leather bench were new look for this year. I love it all together so much!!

We haven't finished some of the area yet since we are still waiting for furniture to get there. But so far, we staged enough area to take nice pictures up on MSL listing.

I find out I got pregnant! It is good or bad... I really have to hire a few asistant to up and un load decoration from my truck.

I am not sure how it works out but I really really have to find someone I can rely on. I put an ad for asistant wanted on craiglist the other day. I have at least 20 replys back. I cannot choose by just reading their resume and letter, nor don't have time to have interview with 20:P

One thing I noticed was that everybody says "I have passion, and great eyes on interior design". That might be true, but unless we have same taste of interior design, I cannot ask her to pick some items for each room. I tried it and it didn't work out. I rather select by myself since this will be my work and people judge my work by looking at my interior design.

I haven't taken pictures of living, kitchen, masterbedroom and other area yet. Even last picture, I forgot to hold the towels on coutertop. I still need to go back there for a couple more times.

I was wondering how long you, stagers usually take to stage whole house? My ad says "ONE WHOLE DAY", but actually I always need to go back for a couple more times before I feel completed.

RealEstateShows.com

Misako Kasai Interior Design& Home Staging In Atlanta (RedesignInAtlanta) — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 19:57:16 -0500

I just test listing the property I staged on Realestateshows.com. I still don't know how to use this site. I will come back to fit and add some more. I thought it is nice that I can add my staged properties on Realtors.com and MLS for my realtors as showroom with this video clip.

I thought it is great additional service to offer Realtors and homeowners!

Anybody here tryed this software yet?

OPEN HOUSE set up for caravan showroom

Misako Kasai Interior Design& Home Staging In Atlanta (RedesignInAtlanta) — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 23:11:06 -0500

I just finished staging 2 open houses on same subdivision. This was very first biggest project for me in one day!@ I run back and forth on between 2 houses. Furniture arrived 6pm. They took almost 2 hours to set up furniture (2 living, 2 dining, bedroom sets). I thought I brought enough accessories to decorate 2 homes but I needed to get more wal arts and decorations. I was glad that my assistant was very helpful. She helps me a lot. Finally we finished everything at 1am.

Anyway, I had a great experience to stage these houses. I have several calls to set up 10x10 booth for Realtors tradeshow. I will post here again. I am planning to reserve a booth for trade show on August. Is anybody here in Atlanta participating??

Please contact me @678-362-7295 if you are looking for a stager in Atlanta, GA!

Family photo organization - Email consultation saved me a lot of time!

Misako Kasai Interior Design& Home Staging In Atlanta (RedesignInAtlanta) — Mon, 14 May 2007 23:52:21 -0500

My client emailed me with this picture above to get advice to display her family photos.

I usually see a lot of my clients like to display their personal photos all around the rooms like on the top of fireplace, buffet cabinet and even on coffee table. It sometimes creates clutter feelings with too many picture frames everywhere. I advised this client to put them on one wall as picture gallery with shelves to display her collection of elephant together since she was looking for place for them also. (If you are planning to have open house, I would recommend to hide them instead of display).

OMG! This was not how I thought I wanted to display. I stopped her and emailed back with a picture below to install shelves randomly. I was glad that she emailed me the picture before she installed!!

She emailed me back after her husband and she purchased shelves and picture frames, and installed themselves.

I stopped by today and added a little accessories (her collection of elephants) around as a finish touch. I really appreciate the power of Internet and emails, and PPT. It was impossible to direct them how to display their pictures without email and pictures exchanges. I am glad that they didn't display the way they showed on first picture. I save a lot of time to finish this project by directing them using email consultation!

I think they did a great job by themselves afterall!!

Dining Room Before&After

Misako Kasai Interior Design& Home Staging In Atlanta (RedesignInAtlanta) — Thu, 03 May 2007 00:11:09 -0500

Simple furniture arrangement. Furniture scale were too large for this small dining room. By removing 2 master chairs away from table, I created space around the wall. These two chairs were blocking the way.

There is only one table cross in Before pic to as a source of color. I added colors all around the room to bring warm feeling to this room.

She has expensive cristal collection in china cabinet. Nobody would notice anything in cabinet since they are too clear against mirror finish cabinet shelves. I added colorful plates and imitation leaves on cabinet shelves as accent colors to give them more attention.

Light is also very important for presentation.

Which room would you like to visit?

Living room - Before&Process

Misako Kasai Interior Design& Home Staging In Atlanta (RedesignInAtlanta) — Wed, 02 May 2007 23:11:28 -0500

Eventually we couldn't follow the design theme I planned with many many many reasons...:(

We just did a simple "redesign to live". We couldn't afford to do a lot of things I wanted to get done but at least we created fresh new look with small budget except plazma screen TV! << this is not a props, actual TV they purchased:)

Problem for this room was a wall mirror reflecting everything in this room. I avoid adding too many accessory items in this room to make it look simple and clean.

Just adding light source on image makes a lot of difference too!

http://redesigninatlanta.com

Bathroom simple Staging BEFORE&AFTER

Misako Kasai Interior Design& Home Staging In Atlanta (RedesignInAtlanta) — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 22:29:38 -0500

I moved around same props for opposite side to take another picture. I forgot to bring a wall art, and a brown curtain I prepared:( Blame on heavy rain today!!

I took first photo with an angle to show double sinks, a garden bathtub, and a shower. Second one to show a nice size window by bathtab showing the view.

I am not just used to decorate the room with white wall. I have to get used to it.

Hope I will meet the clients who are willing to paint on wall soon:)

RedesignInAtlanta.com <<I just fixed the link!

Misako

Living room Redesign Presentation2 - Asian Theme

Misako Kasai Interior Design& Home Staging In Atlanta (RedesignInAtlanta) — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 08:20:15 -0500

**I have to use white sofa set and coffee table my client has alraedy to make design. I like this one also. It is not staging design so I can use any color I like!

Living Room Staging - Before&After

Misako Kasai Interior Design& Home Staging In Atlanta (RedesignInAtlanta) — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 01:58:09 -0500

I just finished staging this house. They are a young couple with one small daughter. I really wanted to repaint the wall and update lightfixture, but owner was in tight budget. I bought 8 accent pillows, 2 square wicker tables, wall-art. I bought them from Target, Pior1Import, and World Market. I spend $230 for shopping. ($100 pillows, $50x2 tables, $25 art) I used homeowners belongings as much as possible. I rent my immitation palm tree and some of the accent decorations to homeowners.

If you are Realtor in Atlanta, need Stager, please contact me for FREE Home Staging Trial for partnarship!

Condo Floor Plan & Furniture Plan

Misako Kasai Interior Design& Home Staging In Atlanta (RedesignInAtlanta) — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 19:46:12 -0500

This is Floor Plan for Condo I bed 1.1/2bath.

I am glad that I started AR. I met so many people already who are in Atlanta area, who work in staging business through this community. I get to see other stager's works also. That motivates me to work more and share more. I am glad to meet a lot of talented people here!

Great weekend!

Kitchen Floor Before&After

Misako Kasai Interior Design& Home Staging In Atlanta (RedesignInAtlanta) — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 00:37:18 -0500

This is the process to install Vinyl tiles on kitchen area. I chose larger size tiles. Lowes has more different styles and size of vinyl tiles compared to Homedepot in my area - Faytteville co.and Riverdale area. After applying sealer, it looks so real with texture. Cost around $150 with no labor. I did install them with my husband's help.

This pic is not staged yet.

Sorry that I have more work samples of remodeling than home staging. I usually do design, paint, exchange lightfixture, upholstery, install drapery, and add finishing touch by myself. My husband helps me as a handy man. I love remodeling and upgrading to add up the value to the property along with staging.

You can find this Kitchen Before&After on other entry.

Finally Friday!

Grear weekend!

Furniture Plan for Living Room Staging

Misako Kasai Interior Design& Home Staging In Atlanta (RedesignInAtlanta) — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 09:47:01 -0500

Good morning, everyone! I just contacted a new client for staging service. She is in a tight budget so I have to use her furniture and belongings as much as I can to finish this project. I am planning to stage her living room and kitchen area.

I stopped by Wal-mart and Target this morning to see some accent items. I didn't see anything from Wal-mart but I found cute stuff at Target! Since she cannot spend too much, I might have to purchase some accessories to decorate and return after taking pictures...:P

I cantacted by many people to help me remake my website which I made by myself. I know I know~!! I have so many mistakes on grammer and explaination on my service discription:P I finally decided to use one of the professional service to makeover.

Thank you for reading my Blog and sorry for my English alwasys^^!

Kitchen Makeover - Before&After

Misako Kasai Interior Design& Home Staging In Atlanta (RedesignInAtlanta) — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 17:44:54 -0500

Hi, it was really hot day here in Atlanta today. This is the pictures of kitchen makeover. We painted kitchen cabinets with semi gloss paint and changed cabinet hardwares and faucet, applied large vinyl tiles on the floor. Fresh coat of paint and replace stainless appliances to finish the look!

If kitchen cabinets are in great shape, and in good layout, your kitchen can have new look without overhaul entire kitchen.

When you paint kitchen cabinet, make sure you apply primer and paint with semi gloss or gloss paint since gloss paint is hard to paint on and doesn't stick on surface without primer. Gloss paint is easy to clean the surface like oily kitchen area compared with satin and flat paint. I would not recommend to paint walls on other area with glossy paint since it reflects too much light of the room. I would use satin for rest of the room. If you work on kids room, gloss paint works very good to remove crayon art work!

Some investors or home remodeler paint cabinet without taking out each cabinet door to save the time and labor. It might take longer time but I recommend to remove the cabinets door and take a little more time to repaint cabinet on each side. As you know, kitchen is the best selling point of your property. Instead of spend money to replace whole cabinet, I would recommend to update your appliances to stainless from basic white and add new counter top and faucet instead. Additional micro/fan combo on the top of oven add a much more value.

BATHROOM Makeover Before&After

Misako Kasai Interior Design& Home Staging In Atlanta (RedesignInAtlanta) — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 20:33:01 -0500

Hi, I love how this bathroom came out. I almost changed everything in this bathroom. I found a bathroom lightfixture with discount in Homedepot. I found a large mirror with dark bown wood frame to go with lightfixture at Wal-Mart. I installed vinyl tiles like you see on HGTV! It was easy upgrade with low budget.

...I have to go now. My friends just came by.

I will finish this page when I come back!

Great day!

KIDs ROOM Redesign Before&After

Misako Kasai Interior Design& Home Staging In Atlanta (RedesignInAtlanta) — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 22:42:59 -0500

Hi, I am uploading my Redesign work for KIDs ROOM. Sorry, this is not Home Staging design. I still love to design for KIDs Room and different themes if I have chance.

I bought almost everything from IKEA to accessorize this room except a rug I bought from Bed, Bath and Beyond. I love Ikea products to decorate Kids room but I didn't really like quality of anything else. Wish they use a little bit better materials to make furniture. I still love to get ideas for furniture arrangement and color themes from showroom at Ikea. Rooms2go Kids also has nice furniture and accessories for Kids room. I am working on Teen Girls Room right now. I will upload Before&After pictures after finish!

Nice to meet you, Everybody!

Misako Kasai Interior Design& Home Staging In Atlanta (RedesignInAtlanta) — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 11:24:00 -0500

Hi, I just started ActiveRain today! I am Interior Redesigner, Home Stager in Atlanta, GA. I am really excited to meet new people who works on same field and Realtors who are interested in Home Staging Service.

I am planning to upload my works I have done in past with Before, Process, After photos.

Please check my website for more Before&After pictures.

Please check back my BLOG often to see my works!

Have a great day!

MISAKO http://www.RedesignInAtlanta.com