From Doll House to Open House – A light bulb moment!
HGTV Inspires an Entrepreneur
A little girl plays with her doll house. The dolls are left idol as she rearranges the décor over and over again.
A teenager’s assignment to make a presentation on decorating an apartment is the best homework ever!
A newlywed receives compliments from friends, family and strangers on the color choices for the new siding and window shutters on her first house.
A young mother wows the parents of her children’s friends with the kitchen that she designed for her new home.
An empty nester’s “fixer upper” vacation home thrills neighbors and strangers. They stop to compliment her on the design choices that transformed the “eye sore” of the neighborhood.
A middle aged woman down sizes her home. She blends her belongings with her mother’s belongings, to create a style that will function for both of them.
As a daughter and her mother are watching HGTV, inspiration slowly creeps in. Night after night, week after week, year after year, finally the inspiration becomes a dream.
Designed to Sell opened Sharon McConnell’s eyes to the concept of staging a home to sell. Staging a home creates a great first impression for the Open House. Home buyers can visualize themselves’ living in their new home. “Even though home staging is relatively new to the east coast, I thought, I can do that! I will do that!” says Sharon from Perkasie, Pa.
While watching the interior re arrange segments on Decorating Cents, Sharon thought to herself, “I have rearranged rooms for family and friends for years. I am obsessed with re arranging. I can’t go into an office or any home with out re arranging the furniture in my mind. Re arranging for others, I can do that! I will do that!”
An entrepreneur opens the doors of her home staging and redesign business.
She did it! Sharon’s dream is finally realized thanks to inspiration from HGTV’s Designed to Sell and Decorating Cents. Her home staging and re design business, Park Ave. Home Staging & Re Design, is located in Perkasie, Pa. You can do what you love. It’s never too late for dreams to come true. She is living her dream thanks to HGTV.
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What was your light bulb moment?
This article was submitted to HGTV’s Ideas magazine. HGTV’s quarterly home and garden magazine was distributed through E.W. Scripps newspapers across the country. They no longer print and distribute, but currently have an on line newsletter. I do not know if the article was ever published, but it was fun to reminisce.
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