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Home Stager with Stage-Show-Sell

I had the opportunity of purchasing a lot of furniture from a house that was going to be bulldozed.

In February I was offered the job of doing An Estate Sale and possibly staging the home.  For health reason I turned the job down.  The house was "Sick".   Leaky roof, leaky roofleaky cat peeing catand extreme dirt made it an unsafe situation for my crew.

Last week the listing agent told me the house is sold and will be demolished and that I could purchase items.

I was leery about entering the house AND taking on a job of refinishing furniture after reading posts from the AR community.  Will I be able to do it since I've never done it before?

Being the adventurer that I am------ I donned my pollen mask pollen mask(it was little help) and purchased several items

 

While working on the projects I realized that I was "going green"   and doing the recycle thing with furniture.   It was rather interesting trying to use only recycled or natural products for giving the furniture a new life.  Citrus strip and old cotton shirts were used and sandpaper.

 

These are the items I purchased

rocking chairs

Cleaned and ready

old bookcase

The difference is amazing

bookcase waiting for staging job

rocking chairs

The rocking chairs were the easiest to clean up with soap and water

This table turned out beautifully. It's in the middle of the picture above

drop leaf table

table opened up

These two table are almost finished.  They have been stripped and cleaned.

Today they will be oiled.  The tegs were destroyed by the cat.  I'll be looking for legs of different heights so that I can use them in different areas of a home.

The long table was a coffee table and the smaller was an end table.

They are both walnut

walnut tables

Oiled and waiting for legs

oiled and waiting for legs

This mahogany table is giving me a very hard time. The legs are broken and need to be glued.

The table won't accept the stain in all areas.

mahogany table

I've used citrus strip and an electric sander many times and the finish won't come off. When I oil the table this is what I get.

Back to the drawing board with this one.

I knew this was going to be the most challenging project so I left it towards the end of the project.

There are two chairs that do with it that need new fabric seats.  I've never done that before.

This has been fun and a challenge and I'm ready for the house to stage with them.

 

Stage-Show-Sell   services Oakland Macomb and Wayne counties

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Stage-Show-Sell, offers affordable home staging solutions in the Birmingham - Bloomfield and surrounding areas in getting your home ready for the market. We service both home sellers and realtors. We have the experience, our own rental furniture and accessories to stage many homes. We specialize in Estate work. The house can be put into our hands for the whole process of getting the house on the market

 

Comments (5)

Marci Toliver
438-4642 - Mauldin, SC
Anderson SC, Spartanburg,Greenville SC, Home Staging
Virginia- you got some great pieces!  Cant wait to see the end result- the legs
May 02, 2008 03:18 AM
Anonymous
Beth Pressler
Virginia, Pretty soon you'll be having your own show on HGTV!
May 02, 2008 06:22 AM
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Yvonne Root
rooms b.y. root - Prescott, AZ
Home Stager - Northern Arizona
Great buy Virginia. You are having more fun than you thought you would when you decided to stage homes; huh?
May 03, 2008 06:35 AM
Virginia Tatseos
Stage-Show-Sell - Bloomfield Township, MI

One more piece finished.   I love the versality of this piece.  There was tons of work getting it to this point.

This is the way I left it in the last post

mahogney table

 

This is now with all the added pieces

Without the legs here

 

Legs added and the extra leaves taken out

Drop leaf

 

It's been a challenge 'going gree' and using products over again.

The chairs are ready for new seats. 

 

Today was perfect weather for working in the garage.  

 

Jun 02, 2008 01:58 PM
Ronelle Schroeder-Hill
Vacaville, CA

Your a brave gal, I love the way the bookcase turned out. Those chairs will be so fun to finish, get out your staple gun!

Jun 02, 2008 03:49 PM