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Decorating Articles
Interior Redesign -
Home Staging -
Interior Decorating
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Interior
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Affordable Updates to Enhance the Look of Your Home
1) To add value and style to your home's interior
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Give your home a mini
facelift with a redesign Do you have cabin fever?
How about your home? It’s a proven fact that the lack of sunlight in the
winter can cause feelings of depression and fatigue. Well,
your home can actually suffer from this illness too and could
actually be causing some of your symptoms of cabin fever. So
what can you do about it? Redesign your home.
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Redesign Your World … One Room at a Time
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Come on, admit it – how many of you are HGTV design junkies? And how
many of you are lucky enough to have a resident carpenter, an
electrician and a crew of 20 to do the work? Or an average TV show
budget of $2000? How about someone to do your hair and make-up before
that exciting room reveal?
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Interior Redesign: What You
Need to Know About Hiring a One-Day Decorator
- Interior redesigners - also known as
interior refiners, redecorators, interior arrangers, one day
decorators, room makeover specialists and home stylists - bring a
unique perspective to their clients' decorating dilemmas. While the
business model of traditional interior design services is largely
based on profits from the markup of furnishings and contract
services which are resold to the client, interior redesigners are
overwhelmingly service oriented.
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Should I Hire A Professional Re-designer? -
Hiring a professional re-designer depends on you and your available free
time, patience, creativity and much more.
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Consider
Resale Value when Remodeling -
Most often, a person’s home is their largest investment. It’s therefore
wise to consider resale value when undertaking any substantial
remodeling project.
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Home Staging |
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FAQ’s - HOME STAGING AS A CAREER
So you think you would like to become a Home Stager?
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Simple Bathroom Renovation Tips for Selling
At all of my public talks on Preparing Your House for
Selling home sellers want to know ‘Which are the most important
rooms for selling?. My answer is always - the bathroom and the
kitchen.
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10 Home Staging Tips -
Preparing your house for selling can be a daunting and
overwhelming task whether you have lived in your home a
few years or many. The longer you have lived in your
home the more things you will have acquired. The intent
of this Top 10 Tips for Successful Home Staging is to
help you save TIME, MONEY & ENERGY.
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Company’s
2006 Results: Home Staging Can Make Substantial Impact on a Home’s
Marketability
From coast to
coast, home staging is quickly becoming the industry standard in a
competitive real estate market. Real estate
agents have always emphasized the importance of appealing to a
buyer's emotions when selling a home. New research now validates
that theory and local data shows that staging before selling can
bring profitable results in a slowing market.
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Setting
The Stage For Success
- I am a Professional Real Estate Stager & Interior
Decorator. I am Ohio’s 1st. provider & instructor for
Realtors® 2hr C.E.U. about the POWER of staging. My homes,
(product), have sold in as little as ONE DAY! 84% sell
usually in 30 days!
What is staging? I am asked this ALL the time. Staging is a
verb. It is the action of doing something. Staging can be
from one end of the spectrum-renting & setting furniture up
in vacant home to making over 200 suggestions for occupied
or vacant home. So “staging” is a word used to describe many
things.
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So You've moved into your
new home-now what?
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You've finally finished the paper-mill
marathon that is closing on your new home. Soon You'll be moving
in- now what? Keep the old sofa or buy a new one? Stick with taupe
or paint the whole place blue? And woe to the bachelor who must
face the labyrinth of drapes, sheers, blinds, scarves, rods, and
rings. Tackling window treatments doesn't have to be like plotting
the Normandy Invasion, if your lucky enough to work with someone
like Paula Henry of Simply Put Interiors in Reisterstown.
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Consider Resale Value when
Remodeling - Annual Update
Most often, a person’s
home is their largest investment. It’s therefore wise to consider
resale value when undertaking any substantial remodeling project.
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Safety First: Before Listing Your Home,
Remove That “Block of Knives” I have been professionally
staging homes in Colorado Springs, Denver and the Front Range area
for four years. Safety for the Realtors who show the homes I stage
(or any home listed for sale), has long been a passion of mine.
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Consider
Resale Value when Remodeling - Most often, a person’s home is their largest investment. It’s therefore
wise to consider resale value when undertaking any substantial
remodeling project.
Each November, REMODELING Magazine publishes their annual “Cost vs.
Value Report”, comparing
construction cost with resale value in over 50 markets.
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Selling your Home Vacant
or Furnished? - There is
ongoing debate among home sellers and realtors alike as to which
scenario--vacant or furnished will bring sellers higher priced offers on
their homes? This issue is often overlooked by sellers because of the
inconvenience of putting off the physical move until after a home is
sold. After all, sellers want to get their lives back to “normal” as
quickly and conveniently as possible, particularly when children are
involved.
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Get your
Asking Price – or More
- If you are thinking about putting your house on the
market now and hope to sell, move and get settled as quickly as possible
- home owners take note. The average buyer has little imagination when
it comes to projecting themselves into a resale home. Even though you
spent countless hours painting and decorating for yourselves it means
little to the young couple viewing your home. They may enjoy a cursory
glance at your novels and the cute family snapshots adorning the walls.
They may be awed by your china and crystal collection. But it will
never feel like their home. They won’t be able to get past your
personal style. You want them to feel at ease, welcomed and able to
imagine themselves living there.
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Selling
your Wonderland in the Winter! -
While Spring is the most common time to put your house on the market,
selling in the “off” season of winter can be a very shrewd move and have
it’s advantages. Think of it as the “Pre Season Market”. With fewer
homes on the market, there is less competition. Get that buyer before
the other house down the street goes up for sale in the spring.
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Dressed to Sell: Staging makes the
Difference -
Within seconds of walking
into a house, prospective buyers form an impression and know
whether they want to buy the house or not. In some cases they
won’t even get out of the car, upon looking at the outside of the
house.
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Staging lets home sing for a sale
- "It's a nice house with a beautiful fireplace, but it doesn't have the
sparkle," admits her broker, Maura Bang
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What should I do to get my
house ready? - Paint the kitchen mint green.
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Staging
101 - Staging is HOT now, but…
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The
way you live in a home and the way you
sell your house are
two very different things!” -
Your
house is probably your biggest asset; selling it can be one of the
most important decisions in your life.
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Interior
Decorating |
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What Is Green Design and
How You Can Bring It Into Your Home:
Seeing Green? No, not the green-eyed monster, but eco-friendly
decorating in your home. Also known as sustainable design or
environmentally friendly decorating, using these products can have a
healthy impact on people and the planet.
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Spring Decorating Tips:
Just when you’re ready to repeat the end-of-winter mantra
“I’m so tired of winter,” a faint warm wind brushes your cheek, blue
skies peak from behind a gray cloud, and the hue of green begins to
color the hard brown earth.
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Decorating Children’s
Bedrooms Our House, Their Room If you are planning on decorating
your child’s bedroom, to avoid fights, hassles and headaches, let
them be involved in the planning stage.
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How to
find inspiration for your next decorating project
I always receive calls from desperate clients who just don’t know
where to start with their decorating project and they always ask me
what I would do with their room. Well, as a decorator it isn’t up to
me to decide how to decorate your room; it has to come from you!
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Now is the
time to take a NEW LOOK at the things that you are surrounded by
in your home, because what we surround ourselves with reflects who we
really are. If you like what you see - good for you, if you think you
need some changes then I hope my article will help you with
that.
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How
to Select Art for Your Home -
Selecting art for your home can be an exciting adventure and a source of
enjoyment for years to come. Keys to success are figuring out what
kind of art you like, how it will fit in with the rest of your interior
design plans, and how to exhibit the art to the best effect in your
home.
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The One Day Way to Decorating
Your Home -
Great
Decorating does not necessarily mean it has to cost a lot of money or
take a great deal of time. The things that make a home fabulous are
using elements in unexpected ways. Just because they call it a china
closet...doesn't mean you have to store china in it. Don't get hung up
on what the original purpose of the room was....use it how it works best
for your lifestyle. Just because they called it a dining room doesn't
mean it can't be a sitting room. Think outside the box and have fun with
your home!
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Real Life Designs -
Creating a
space that is multi-functional as well as interesting can be easily
achieved by dividing the space into several smaller vignettes. The
living or family rooms are usually the rooms where maximum usage is most
desirable. With an abundance of larger homes on the market, creating a
space that feels warm and inviting can pose a challenge. As in the case
of many urban dwellers space can be a costly luxury. Both of these
dilemmas can be easily resolved by utilizing the space to create smaller
rooms within a room.
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Rejuvenating Your Space For
Spring - Ready for spring, but your room still reflects
winter? It doesn’t take a lot of time or dollars to transform
your winter setting into an inviting spring space. Every room
needs a lift come spring to keep the vitality alive! Let your
space welcome the new season along with you.
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Taking the
Guesswork out of the Guest Rooms - There are many things you
can do to make guests feel welcome, even if you have only a small
amount of space to offer. The ultimate goal is to make your
houseguests feel comfortable, welcome and to be able to discover
their own little place for privacy.
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Secrets to a
Sensational Room... using what you already have - Are you
confused as to how to ‘pull a room together’? Do you want your
home to feel more spacious, warm and inviting? You might be
tempted to add another chair, piece of artwork or accessory hoping
it will magically transform the room.
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Add 'Finishing Touches' to
your Fall Fix-up List - Most homeowners know what type of
fix-up work needs to be done on their homes before winter settles
in. Whether it’s installing storm windows, painting,
weatherproofing or shutting down the irrigation system, there is
plenty of challenging exterior projects to tackle.
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Working@home: How to create a
Functional Home Office - The home office has come a long way
and statistics confirm its growing allure---more than 50 million
Americans work from home in some capacity, according to the
American Internet Users Survey.
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"Shelf Esteem”…from bookcase to
showcase!! - Your books tell stories and
so should your bookshelves. Along with your collectibles,
memorabilia and framed photos, they give visitors and guests a
glimpse of who you are….your interests, talents and hobbies.
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Bookcases.....They're Not Just About Books! -
Most of us treat our bookcases as the "catch all area" in our
Homes. The telephone books, magazines, DVD's and anything
else we don't know where to store, gets crammed full in our
bookcases.
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TO COLOR OR NOT? THAT IS THE QUESTION.
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Imagine living your life in
black and white. Perhaps you'd see some shades of gray.
But a gray rose? A black apple? A white snowman?
OK, that one works, but you get my point.
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Decorating for Fall - As the
leaves begin to change color, we’re reminded once again that Autumn is
in the air – time to cozy up the house and get ready to celebrate the
season with a little redecorating.
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Home Improvement The
Redesigner’s Version: Creative, On a Budget, and In An Afternoon!
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Tips on Hanging Artwork
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Hang pictures at eye level
--about 5˝ feet from the floor.
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Holiday Decorating Tips for the Busy Woman
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The holidays are upon us and so is the stress and pressure of making
sure everything is perfect for your family and friends. Here are
ten simple tips to decorate for the holidays and still enjoy this time
of year yourself.
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Garden Style - Long
winters and cool springs make us crave to be outdoors and in our
gardens once warm weather hits. Extend your garden year-round by
decorating your home in Garden Style.
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Window Treatment Tips – Dress Up Your Draperies On A
Budget - An important element in our home décor is
fabric window treatments. So often we search for the right style
only to find that the curtain or drapery is not available in the
color we want.
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