Home Staging For You
An Accredited Staging Professional providing Staging services, Home Readiness services, ReDesign and eStaging Consultations in Harris County as well as Virtual Consultations throughout the United States
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2022
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Friday Fun…How Old Would You Be? One of my favorite movies is An Affair to Remember (Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr). In it, his aunt says…“If I'd known I was going to live to 86 I wouldn't have let the maid go." While I’m not 86, thoughts of getting another year older…according to the calendar…flo...
09/30/2022
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Thankful Thursdays…Blessed To Have HimJust a few days before Hurricane Harvey (2017) made his presence known in Houston, my niece and her husband gratefully received little Raffe, who was just 9 days old. They began their journey as foster parents with the ultimate goal of adoption. This week w...
09/29/2022
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Wordless Wednesday…Lights Out We love watching our backyard birds (and squirrels). Larry and I do what we can to provide food assistance, water, and shelter (not to mention a nursery for mom and dad bluebirds). Yesterday we received a Lights Out Action Alert from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology an...
09/28/2022
Buy for Where You Are Now, Not for Your Dream-Home-To-Be Have you ever walked into a home and your first reaction was that the furniture was too big for the room? It happens to many of us. We think we’re saving money by buying furniture for our dream home, not for the one we’re living in now. Th...
09/27/2022
Motivational Monday…Use What You Know, Learn What You Don’t Know The other night, a friend was over until 11 pm while I helped him with a word document. He is 75 and is someone who many would say shouldn’t own a computer. Unfortunately, he has Alzheimer's. I have to hand it to him though becaus...
09/26/2022
Posts Just For You- This Week at ActiveRain September 18 to September 24, 2022 Every day there is something to learn here at ActiveRain. With this series, I try to highlight posts that gave me that lightbulb moment. It could be something techie, something about Real Estate or the other profes...
09/25/2022
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I love what Nick's client asked him...please slow down! I get it because I saw a video today that made me really dizzy. Please leave comments on Nick's post! With COVID we all gained new skills, or improved on ones we were already using. I am becoming quite adept at making video tours of listing...
09/24/2022
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This Week…Bring It On AutumnAs I write this, it’s 95 degrees out but it feels like it’s 99…so yes…bring it on, Autumn. I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself than be crowded on a velvet cushion. Henry David ThoreauIt’s a good weekend to stay in and organize and delete my ...
09/24/2022
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Friday Fun…What Stands Out to You?Just for fun, what is the one “turn off” that leaps out at you when you first view a home? I’ve heard from many agents and others that it’s the smell. Others have said their Number One turn-off is too much stuff. The feeling I get when I first see a home I’ve...
09/23/2022
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My Crazy Staging Story…No Monkeying Around Many years ago when we were returning to Florida from one of our Family Obligatory Tours, I received a frantic call from a homeowner. The renters she’d had in her home while she was out of state caring for her parents had moved out. She’d decided it was...
09/22/2022
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