It's funny how things turn out!
About six months ago as co-chair of the The 50th Anniversay of Chamber of Commerce Building Awards committee, I reached out to the people at the Nate Berkus Show to hand out the The Chairman's Award. Unfortunately Nate wouldn't be in New York on December 2nd so that didn't work out as planned. I made a few suggestions about making over the Chamber office but that wasn't a direction the show was going in.
Three months later we talked again as they were looking for someone with a room stuck in the past - like the 60's, 70's or 80's! I gave them a friend's contact information; unfortunately she didn't make the cut.
Then, two months ago, I received yet another phone call from the Nate Berkus Show. They wanted to know if my agents would be open to a makeover with a famous stylist? My response was yes! My agents work so hard for our customers and clients, always putting others first - they certainly deserved to be pampered and I would love to help that happen for them.
After that was a flurry of phone interviews with all the agents, photos and then more interviews. Even photos of our office decor had to be sent to the producers - thank goodness we had recently won a Staten Island Chamber of Commerce Building Award for interior design in 2010.
Finally we received the phone call we had been waiting for - myself and three other agents had made the cut!
Our shoot date was August 2nd, at our offices. At 8:30 in the morning, the shoot began. The "before" segment on our office life with interviews, shot by half of the crew. We were told the stylist and rest of the crew would be coming later, on the Ferry. I had been dreaming our stylist would be Carson Kressley, the Emmy winning former star of Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, the Nate Berkus Show, the Oprah Winfrey Show as well as the star of Carson Nation - his own show. I am a huge fan of Carson Kressley but when I heard about the ferry ride, I figured a famous stylist like Carson would be a limo guy..So it clearly wasn't him!
The shoot kept us busy all morning. At 11, the door to the office flew open and there appeared Carson Kressley - saying..."Well Hello Claire Properties"...My famous stylist WAS Carson Kressley! Apparently Emmy award winning famous stylists do take the Ferry! More shooting commenced and we were all on Cloud Nine. What AN AMAZING day!
Since then we've had our fitting with Carson at the Lord & Taylor's in Manhattan in the personal shopper's salon; We felt like movie starts! On August 30th we'll be picked up by limo at 7am (now that we had celebrity status!) and taken to the Julien Farel Salon on Fetai Hotel, where Carson Kressley met us, for the last part of our make over. He discussed with Julian Ferrell our hair color, cut and style.
Finally, back to the Nate Berkus Show for the final shoot and the the final reveal.
We each had our own green rooms. We were even kept blind folded right up until the final reveal...We're still pinching ourselves!
Amazing! I still can't believe how it all turned out.
Any questions, please contact me, Claire Bisignano Chesnoff, ABR, AHWD, ASP, BCREP, CLHMS, CRS, GREEN, GRI, SRES, N.Y.S. Licensed Real Estate Broker, at Claire Properties. My direct line is 917-974-2238 or reach me via email at claire@claireproperties.com. You can see featured properties at my website, www.claireproperties.com.
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