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We have provide decorating articles from some of the most talented decorators across the country. Many of the articles will give you the latest how to tips for decorating, redesigning or staging your own home.

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5 Easy Inexpensive Decorating Tips

We’re all watching our spending habits in this economy. Here are few quick tips for maximizing the power of your decorating dollar:

Affordable Updates to Enhance the Look of Your Home
To add value and style to your home's interior

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.

Redesign Your World … One Room at a Time
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?

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.

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.

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.

Home Staging


8 Super Strategies for Selling Vacant Property
Think of a house as a theatrical stage. When it is not being used and is void of props and scenery, it lacks interest and rarely warrants a second glance.

What's Wrong With my House?
Okay, you finally did it. You’ve listed the house with a realtor. They’ve put a sign in the yard, flyers in the box and your photos on the MLS and you expect a sale any day now because, hey - what’s wrong with my house?

Top Tips for Kitchen Improvements for Budget Conscious Sellers

I have coached 1000s of home sellers on the best investments to make when selling their home.

The 4 Levels of Staging
Many of the shows are staging very high end homes and using furnishings and accessories that are very expensive. The stagers have access to unlimited inventory and open ended budgets.

Staging to Appeal to the Senses
In order to impress to the largest number of potential buyers when selling your home, it is important during staging to appeal to the senses.

How to Sell a Home in Today's Competitive Real Estate Market
Often buyers' preview pictures of your house on the internet before they ever request a showing. In today's highly competitive real estate market, there are TWO things absolutely essential to receiving offers.

First Impressions Count When Selling Your Home
Why wouldn’t you put the same care and attention into selling possibly your greatest asset that you would do in making a good and lasting first impression in any other area of your life?

Don't Make Your Home Staging Clients Cry
Several years ago I sat listening in disbelief and horror as one of my students recounted her sister’s experience with hiring a home stager.

Does Your Home Attract Potential Buyers?
The process begins at curbside to make the necessary adjustments in playing up the homes strengths. Next the interior is transformed so that the home shows it’s absolute best.

Home Staging Boston Style
When you’re ready to put your home on the market follow DaVinci's 3D's for Home Staging.

Do You Know What Needs to Be Done to Sell Your Home?
If you're a fan of HGTV, you know what Home Staging is! You also know that it can help you sell your home faster and get the best price.

Desperate to Sell? Home Staging can give you an edge.
What’s the best investment you can make when selling your home? A few hours spent with a professional home stager can pay off big!

FAQ’s - HOME STAGING AS A CAREER
So you think you would like to become a Home Stager?

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.

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.

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.

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!

So You've moved into your new home-now what?
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?

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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

What should I do to get my house ready?
Paint the kitchen mint green.

Staging 101
Staging is HOT now, but…

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.

Interior Decorating


Clutter in Your Home

I know you’ve been hearing about de-cluttering. It’s on TV, in all the decorating magazines, and it’s getting kind of tiring. However, it’s critically important. Getting rid of clutter will change your life.

Color Trends for 2008
The colors from the Fall fashion lines transition to the colors we see as trends in home décor. It is not unusual to ask a client what colors they feel good wearing, because you can translate those same colors used in clothing lines into the home.

Color Your Ways
I get a kick out of changing the paint colors in a room, often. Or even my outfit colors get changed often, too. Its just me! In realizing early on how color can set or change a mood, I have made it one of my life's goals to help as many people with color choices as is possible.

Hanging Mirrors
Mirrors are a fabulous addition to a home. And with all the new frames and sizes that are available, they are a decorator’s dream. But how do you decide where to hang them?

Redecorate Your Home
The basic tenets of feng shui are balance, harmony and being surrounded by things you love. This is what happens when your home is redesigned. A redesigner uses design principles such as flow, balance and scale to ‘design’ your home and highlight the things you love.

Decorate like a pro! Use focal points to give your rooms a professional look
Want to create rooms that are comfortable and inviting? Or do you want to highlight special features? Here’s another decorating tip from Perfect Transformations that you can do yourself.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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. 

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.

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.

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. 

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.

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.

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. 

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. 

"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.

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.

TO COLOR OR NOT? THAT IS THE QUESTION

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.

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.

Home Improvement
The Redesigner’s Version: Creative, On a Budget, and In An Afternoon!

Tips on Hanging Artwork
Hang pictures at eye level --about 5½ feet from the floor.

Holiday Decorating Tips for the Busy Woman
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.

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.

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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