Is anyone else getting bombarded with emails about the free t-shirt at VistaPrint? I succombed at once. Great! An inexpensive way to "uniform" my crews at the Install. Marvellous. I'll just use their templates and see what I get. er... couple of problems. Like, it becomes very
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07/31/2007
One step further on the concept of our 'Rain Stagers Portfolio'...If you could only stage one room in a house, which one would you choose for maximum impact?The first one you see? Often the Living RoomThe one most used? Arguably the Kitchen, but don't most people LIVE in the Family Room?The one
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07/31/2007
This was a fun one. An estate sale. A postwar split with some furniture already in place.Our briefHip the place up to tempt first time buyers.The ResultsIt's been sold not once, but 3 times!It turned out that the coffee table is a well-respected vintage piece.... and so was the end table,
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07/29/2007
Millburn - 150 Years Old this year!Incorporated on March 20, 1857, the Township of Millburn will celebrate its Sesquicentennial anniversary this 2007. There have already been some really fun things offered under the banner Celebrating the Past, Present and Future. My son and I loved the J
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07/26/2007
So, after my last couple of posts on making sure that the staging is congruent to a home's architecture, it is just typical of God's sense of humor that I should have been assigned today's house.Here below is a very nice, respectable Tudor. (Please forgive the crooked picture, I've not edited the
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07/24/2007
Another Fun Staging Success Story!!Juliet Johnson Staging just finished staging a home in Short Hills, NJ. Short Hills is the perfect town for Wall Streeters, with Midtown Direct train service, top-rated schools, treed streets and a tasteful mix of old and new manor homes, a few small, most large
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07/24/2007
Every consultation, every estimate, every appointment, I'm asked "What is your position on closets?"There are lots of rules about closets. Here are my favorites, depending upon how much time there is before the home is "thrown up" onto the market. (Thank you, Frank. I shall be using that one f
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07/22/2007
Many items were tudor-ish in style, but colored in orange and teal for the reno in the 70s. what to do? (I need Cindy on the lighting and editing of these shots. )Elements of Tudor style... kinda...sorta.... The embroidered fabric on those pillows came from a designer's remnant I
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07/19/2007
D'you think they have any fun? The second house I ever staged, in 2002 when I thought more was, well frankly, better.
You can completely tell that's 2 card tables from church in lieu of a formal dining table, huh? ah well, nothing like OJT. Getting better, eh?This ver...
07/18/2007
Just when you thought you'd seen enough olive green to last the millenium... it's still ongoing. As are all of the traditional Arts and Crafts pallette.Check out the Color Assocation's great new feature of interactive colors for Fall 2007.http://www.colorassociation.com/site/colortrends.html#Clic
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07/17/2007
