Val's Blog: Long Island & New York Area Home Staging including Nassau and Suffolk counties

OK - so, as requested, here are some of the Before and After pictures from the vacant house in Greenlawn, NY that I staged on Tuesday - you know...the one with the 'infamous' Scrabble Board!They say 'less is more' and 'pictures can speak for themselves', so here you go....                Now, the...

 While Staging the Family Room area of the Great Room in the house I worked on yesterday, I was looking for something to place on the coffee table in front of the couch.  I had 3 oversized hardcover books in place, but needed something else - but what?I wanted to give the illusion of a family liv...

While staging a model home yesterday, I had a conversation with my rep from the rental company who had come out to the job site.  She said, "Val, do you know who your competition is in your area?", to which I replied that I honestly didn't.  I wouldn't know how to find out who they are or where t...

Hey fellow AR members!I have to ask you something - does anyone else find, that as much as you love Active Rain, that often times the blogging and commenting are just too much?  Just another 'task' that you have to complete before the day is done?  Well, I've been finding that a lot lately.  Mayb...

OK - I know that this doesn't really apply to Home Staging or Real Estate, except that in a way it does because we encounter this from time to time while working online!I was just changing screens and, as it often happens, the computer was exceptionally slow in responding, so I hit 'ctrl-alt-dele...

Here is a subject that I would like to 'throw out there'.  You stage a vacant house with furniture, accessories, rugs, drapes, etc.  A few weeks go by and the house is still on the market.  Do you go back to dust and vacuum?  Just whose responsibility is it to maintain the furnishings? I would be...

So, last Thursday evening my husband and I went to a new restaurant in town called "Smoking Sloes".  It features a homemade Barbeque menu.  Since Pulled Pork is one of my favorite dishes and almost impossible to come by on Long Island, I just had to see what this place was all about.When we arriv...

Anyone who has gone onto http://www.classmates.com/ and reads the Message Boards, knows that "The Dinosaur", located on Spring Road in Huntington, is the subject of many posts.  Alumni who have moved away, quite frequently ask if the "Huntington Dinosaur" is still here.I began my research for thi...

  Lately I have been wondering why it is that I can give a presentation to a Real Estate office, who in turn become very excited about the prospect of using staging on their listings, and then never hear from them again?  What happens after I leave?  Do they 'file' the material that I give them i...