mary lou teague: MERRY CHRISTMAS, HAPPY HOLIDAYS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR !!!!
- 12/24/11 01:52 AM
MERRY CHRISTMAS, HAPPY HOLIDAYS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR !!!! From HOME STYLE AND STAGING Wishing everyone a Blessed Holiday Season. May your New Year bring good health, good friends and family !!! One of the many trees done by Home Style and Staging this year. Now to take them all down !! Good Cheer to everyone !!! … (10 comments)
Check out her website www.KathyCaylor.com Over the past couple of months HOME STYLE AND STAGING has had the pleasure of working with Kathy Caylor, ( I understand she found me here on ActiveRain, which I am most thankful !!!) Kathy and I worked on a project and within weeks the house was SOLD...now I would like to think ( and yes, I will take some credit here ) that I had something to do with this...However, she worked hard listing the home, setting up the website for the listing … (9 comments)
mary lou teague: BEFORE AND AFTER...WITH A TWIST !!!
- 07/27/11 04:09 AM
BEFORE AND AFTER...WITH A TWIST !!! HOME STYLE AND STAGING recently did a staging where the owner had done some of the staging before I was asked to come into the project. So this Before and After is BEFORE what the owner did, and the AFTER is what HOME STYLE AND STAGING was able to do with the space, this I feel is why staging should be left to the professionals. Got to hand it to them, they did try, more than I can say for some.
BEFORE: PROVIDED BY THE OWNER AFTER: PROVIDED BY HOME … (12 comments)
mary lou teague: WHEN YOU KNOW IT IS TIME TO FINALLY GET THAT YARD RAKED
- 03/19/11 04:31 AM
WHEN YOU KNOW IT IS TIME TO FINALLY GET THAT YARD RAKED,Lexie and Lucie were out playing in the back yard, and when it was time to come in, well this is what I was greeted with.. It seems that there were more leaves on Lucie than in the yard. Sooooooo....I guess it is time to finally get the blower out and get the leaves up. Also, I do believe that there are more leaves in my house than outside...But you gotta love that face !!! Lucie and the leaves … (6 comments)
mary lou teague: A PICtURE IS WORTH A 1,000 WORDS
- 02/21/11 12:14 AM
Yes, indeed A PICTURE IS WORTH 1,000 WORDS !!! I recently caught Lucie, one of my miniature schnauzers laying on the couch snuggled up to a throw pillow with has "Love" written on it. I just smiled and said "I love you too, Lucie" !!! Sometimes things just come together to make all things OK..especially with a great dog ( or in my case, dogs )...Gotta love them
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mary lou teague: I DON'T CARE WHAT YOU CALL ME...JUST CALL ME
- 02/20/11 02:15 AM
I DON'T CARE WHAT YOU CALL ME.. JUST CALL ME !!!! Yes that is correct, call me anything ( well, that is suitable for my ears ) just call me. I will come running !!! Last week I received a voice mail and the caller was calling for HOME STYLE AND STAGING and would like to speak with Mary Lou Teague , however the last name was pronounced as " T Q". So I returned the nice man's phone call promptly and clearly stated, "Hello this is Mary Lou Teague, with Home Style and Staging" returning your call"...he then says Oh … (7 comments)
mary lou teague: MY CHOCOLATE BROWN BATHROOM WAS "GOOGLED"
- 01/18/11 12:32 AM
HOME STYLE AND STAGING received a phone call the other day from a very nice lady in Indiana, she asked the name of the color that I had used in two of the re-design bathrooms that I done. I was thinking to myself, how in theworld did she know that I did a bathroom in chocolate brown and her in Indiana ?? As the conversation continued I found out that she had "Googled" brown bathrooms and of all the ones that came up she liked the color and the accessories that I had used in mine, traced me by my website … (12 comments)
mary lou teague: I AM IN THE TOP 50 !!!
- 10/18/10 01:50 AM
HOME STYLE AND STAGING just recently hit the 100,000 points mark !!! Then I discovered that I am in the top 50 in points for HOME STAGERS for all states.... I knew that I could look up and see my rating in my own state ( Which I am # 2 ) just figured out how to look that up...( Yes I am a little slow !!! )
So here I go Patting myself on the back AGAIN....I find something new out everyday on ACTIVERAIN...
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mary lou teague: GOT A RE-DESIGN JOB BECAUSE OF MY LINEN CLOSET...
- 10/17/10 03:18 AM
GOT A RE-DESIGN JOB BECAUSE OF MY LINEN CLOSET... HOME STYLE AND STAGING was contacted last week because someone saw on FaceBook where a friend of mine had posted a photo of my linen closet. Yes, I am kind of a neat freak...and they were probably poking alittle fun at me, but what the heck it produced a re-design job for me....
So I guess sometimes it pays to be alittle neat .....
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mary lou teague: I DID IT !!! CROSSED OVER THE 100,000 POINTS LINE !!!
- 10/17/10 02:39 AM
I DID IT !!! CROSSED OVER THE 100,000 POINTS LINE !!! HOME STYLE AND STAGING posted first blog in November 2007...and now 3 years later I am going over 100,000 points..I never thought that I would get here !!!
BUT I have.... thinking back to that date in November 2007, I had no idea what Activerain was, what a post or blog was....I have learned so much...gained new friends...gotten exposure I never thought possible... I can google my name and company name and it comes up first...gained new friends ( oh did I say that already ? ) gotten … (27 comments)
mary lou teague: YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT WILL HAPPEN WHEN... "WHILE YOU WERE OUT" !!!!
- 09/26/10 03:49 AM
Recently, I was out of town for several days and a dear friend, Kala Brewster (local artist), came in and painted a tree on my wall behind the bed...I had posted a couple of days ago http://activerain.com/blogsview/1863949/a-tree-grows-in-brooklyn-or-rather-a-tree-grows-in-a-nursery, and she knew just how much I loved the black tree... ( minus the monkey for my own space) So 'WHILE I WAS OUT"her own personal version of the TV shown, she came in and painted the dramatic black tree behind the bed in my guest room...I have asked that she paint a small red bird on one of the branches to symbolize my … (8 comments)
mary lou teague: A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN OR RATHER A TREE GROWS IN A NURSERY
- 09/17/10 01:16 PM
Recently an artist friend of mine, Kala Brewster, did a re-design of a room that had recently been changed to a nursery. With everything in the room in place, she came in and painted a tree with animals on the wall. No decals here...and it actually only took her less than 2 hours...it would have taken me longer than that to place the decals on the wall... Next she is doing a tree ( without the animals ) on my guest room wall..Will post photos when work is completed.
Work by: KALA BREWESTER … (5 comments)
mary lou teague: AN EVENING WITH AMY GREENE, AUTHOR OF "BLOODROOT"
- 08/25/10 03:59 AM
WINE WOMEN AND WISDOM Book club ( Knoxville,Tn.) meeting last night with author Amy Greene, "Bloodroot", it was amazing spending an evening with Amy, she is such a lovely, down to earth person. After getting to know her, it really made the book come to life, listening to her tell how she developed the characters was something I had never experienced before. It was a wonderful evening on Pam and Mike Willis' boat and all the members of the book club. An evening we will long remember.
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mary lou teague: ANOTHER "POOF" PROJECT
- 06/20/10 03:39 AM
HOME STYLE AND STAGING recently re-designed a dining room closet into a bar area http://activerain.com/blogsview/1685275/poof-a-closet-becomes-a-bar-area- and they have enjoyed the built-in so much they asked me to re-vamp the pantry so that they could display some of their cookware. We took the door off, painted the inside with the same paint as the bar area, as they are in the same open area.
So hopefully I can move on to another project in the house, this is fun...using color, organizing and de-cluttering love doing all three !!! … (20 comments)
I really didn't know that I had that much to say, or rather that I wrote so many...it has been fun and now looking forward to saying more in the next couple of years...wow I must be tired...and where did I come up with all this material...??? It has been fun looking back at some of the ones that I have posted, and some that maybe I should not have posted. My favorite ones are the ones about the commode covers, as they have brought fame to HOME STYLE … (15 comments)
mary lou teague: NOW DO THESE TWO LOOK GUILTY OR WHAT ???
- 05/31/10 02:27 AM
My two Schnauzers, Lexie and Lucie, never sit and beg whenever I am eating breakfast on the couch and watching TV. They just sit and stare until I hand them something. On this morning, I was have a yummy, blueberry muffin and coffee, and had to get up and go check on something in the other room. When I left the room they were sitting right where they are sitting now, except for one minor difference, my yummy blueberry muffin was gone.. and Lucie had blueberry muffin crumbs in her beard, do you think that they thought that I would not … (20 comments)
mary lou teague: WHEN DROWNING, THROW A PARTY
- 05/30/10 02:20 AM
As all my friends know here on AR, HOME STYLE AND STAGING,has been having some slow times recently. So to try and keep my head above water I have been doing some event planning and special event decorating. Which I do love doing, and that part of my business is moving right along. Which I might add is a good thing. Last week I planned and decorated a "50" birthday "beach theme" party. It was held at the Holiday Inn here in Knoxville, complete with dinner, open bar and DJ. There were about 150 people invited and I do think that … (7 comments)
mary lou teague: ASHSR EAST TENNESSEE CHAPTER MEETING
- 05/22/10 04:06 AM
The ASHSR (AMERICAN SOCIETY OF STAGERS AND RE DESIGNERS) of East Tennessee, will be having their quarterly meeting May 26, 2010 (Wednesday) at the Copper Cellar, Kingston Pike, Knoxville, TN. The meeting will be centered around marketing, do's and don'ts. We will be discussing what has worked and what has not. If you should have any ideas, hints etc that you would like to share please do so. If interested in attending the meeting, this is for stagers and Realtors, please contact me, Mary Lou Teague, HOME STYLE AND STAGING LLC, East Tennessee Chapter President homestyleandstaging@comcast.net to RSVP.. We would … (0 comments)
mary lou teague: JUST BECAUSE YOU WATCH GOLF TV, THAT DOESN'T MAKE YOU A GOLFER !!!
- 05/17/10 04:49 AM
HOME STYLE AND STAGING recevied a phone call recently, a lady called to ask about my pricing, etc. Into the conversation she began to question the pricing, the way in which I did the staging, the time that it would take, when I could start the project, etc. Needless to say I was beginning to get somewhat annoyed with her badgering. However, thought I had better be nice and helpful as she may turn out to be a REAL client. The she said the words that all of us (Stagers) hate to hear.... "I HAVE WATCHED THE STAGING SHOWS AND I THINK … (27 comments)
mary lou teague: THANK YOU FOR INSPIRING ME !!! DONNA ROSS
- 05/16/10 05:11 AM
Thank you Donna Ross for inspiring me ( and thank you for the "shout-out" ) in your post http://activerain.com/blogsview/1646793/the-stager-and-the-realtor-go-for-coffee-here-s-how-i-helped-that-to-happen- I was inspired to write still another post about marketing after reading your follow up to mine... I am the East Tennessee Chapter President for ASHSR AMERICAN SOCIETY OF HOME STAGERS AND REDESIGNERS, we have our quarterly meeting coming up in about two weeks, I have sent out the e-vites and let everyone know that we will be discussing marketing ideas, as this seems to be on every-ones mind now. Asking everyone to bring their ideas, ideas of things that they … (5 comments)
MERRY CHRISTMAS, HAPPY HOLIDAYS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR !!!! From HOME STYLE AND STAGING
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