There’s nothing I enjoy more than Staging close to home! If you happen to forget something, it’s just a short drive to storage, and you’re never stuck in traffic on the way home. So I was thrilled when Stage to Sell was hired to Stage a model unit for a beautiful new townhome development in my ve
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05/21/2009
Last week we Staged a beautiful loft at The Broadway on Hollywood & Vine. The owner was a young professional who had beautiful furniture, but almost nothing else. The condo certainly wasn’t cluttered, and the furniture was in the right place. But something was missing. The Realtor on this job has
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05/18/2009
Well, after all my shameless plugging, the votes are in and thanks to YOU, my company Stage to Sell has been named one of the winners in StartUp Nation's Leading Moms in Business Competition for 2009! This contest really struck a chord with me because when I became a working mom five years ago, I
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05/05/2009
I recently wrote a blog entitled "Squatters Increasingly Calling Foreclosures Home" about advocacy groups that are actively helping homeless people around the country move into foreclosed properties that are empty and all but abandoned by the banks that own them. This was a very controversial t
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04/24/2009
According to an article from yesterday's NY Times, though squatting in vacant homes has long been an issue on a smaller scale, with so many vacant foreclosures on the market, homeless advocacy groups around the country are now actively assisting homeless families to take up residence in these for
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04/10/2009
I do a lot of work for a very successful and hard-working Realtor who pays me to do a Staging Consultation on pretty much every one of his listings. He markets this as a value-added service that his clients get in return for listing their home with him. Everyone wins: the seller feels like they'v
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03/24/2009
So now that it's down to the wire, I am going to shamelessly and humbly ask you, my wonderful network of friends and colleagues, to PLEASE take a moment out of your busy days to vote for me in the 2009 StartupNation Leading Moms in Business Competition. A couple of months ago, I posted a blog ask
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03/23/2009
This past Sunday the Hartford Courant reported that Toll Brothers, a luxury home builder with developments in 21 states, is offering Home Staging services to its clients so they can sell their existing house and buy a new Toll Brothers home. The article uses the example of an older couple who wan
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03/17/2009
Home sellers, now you can't say you haven't been warned. In the article below, Pam Simpson tells it like it is. Consider getting a professional Home Stager to evaluate your home to see if you're doing everything you can to show it in the best possible light. Oh, and please take a second to vote f
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03/12/2009
If you follow my blog, you may have seen my post a couple of months back about a Low Income Housing development in Los Angeles that we "Staged" at the end of 2008. Today was the Grand Opening event for Hobart Heights. Hobart is the 3rd low income housing community we did the interior design work
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03/12/2009
