Home Stager Sued for Wrongful Decor

Cocoa Beach, Florida - The owners of a home in Crestview Estates filed suit this week against home stager Clarissa Winston-Fairview and her employer,  Interiors By Design, for wrongful décor and negligence. 

Plaintiffs, Connie and Lonnie Bray, claim in their lawsuit that Winston-Fairview wrongfully caused "beloved possessions and historically important collectibles" to be removed from the couple's home in preparation for its listing and sale.  The lawsuit asks for $5 million and other damages. 

The possessions allegedly removed by Winston-Fairview include "85 Avon bottles, 10-20 stuffed animals, assorted silk greenery, numerous silk floral arrangements, 2 hand-crocheted toilet cozies, 1 Elvis on velvet painting, a mini trampoline, a full set of Billy Ray Cyrus CD's, several pink plastic flamingos, 8 boxes of National Geographic magazines, matching Nascar lamps, miscellaneous "collectible" hotel ash trays from Las Vegas and a decorative Jim Beam bottle that had never been cracked open." 

According to Ms. Bray, the wholesale removal of her beloved objects and Winston-Fairview's continual reference to the objects as "sale-killing-clutter" caused her to suffer spontaneous hysteria, a possible aneurysm and the discovery of a pet parakeet that had been dead in its cage for nearly 4 years. 

"Seeing my little "Tweetie Pie" like that was just awful.  It made me have a real bad case of diarrhea for over 3 weeks.  My insides still ain't right.  Plus I think I might have an aneurysm.  And poor Lonnie hasn't been able to eat chicken since the day we found him.  We're both going to be scarred for life. 

The negligence charges stem from the allegation that Winston-Fairview suggested a new (more neutral) paint color scheme and the removal of wallpaper that Ms. Bray had allegedly spent years applying after seeing it used in a 1968 Good Housekeeping Magazine. 

Benjamin Latimer-Lewis, owner of Interiors By Design, said in a statement that he's sorry about Ms. Bray's diarrhea and that his prayers go out to the family for the untimely discovery of their beloved "Tweetie Pie."

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