Karen Miller's (karenmiller) Blog

It's not just design work - it takes a lot more than that. And it's a bit like a cake recipe.Mix together a knowledge of popular colors...an ability to display things creatively...ESP about potential buyers...a pinch of magic...a cluster of enchantment...and stir together to create "sizzle."In th...

It was a 911 call - an emergency intervention.  Chotchkes had taken over the home of a grandmother!  There were colonies of them - big chotchkes, small chotchkes.  Call the exterminator!  Oh!...I was the exterminator!My job was to exterminate the chotchkes in order to stage the house for sale.  T...

I work on many tiny Philadelphia homes - tiny living rooms, tiny kitchens and tiny, winding stairways.  Some of these houses are so tiny that builders or owners have cut trap doors into the bedroom floors so the furniture can be heaved from the first floor to the second and from the second floor ...

Love it! Love it! Love it! Pink is my favorite color. I wear it all the time. I have a stainless-steel watch with a pink face. And I even had my business cards and letterhead designed with 3 shades of pink, gray and black. Cool, huh!I would love to stage a pink bedroom -- pink bedding, pink curta...

When my sister and I were little girls, our mother always told us before company came to "Put on a pretty face."  This meant we should wash our faces, comb our hair and wear our very prettiest dresses, so everyone would think we were absolutely gorgeous and always looked that way.Mother was alway...