Staging Colorado

  Thinking about putting your home on the market? Then here are some hints for you. 1. The very first thing that potential buyers see is your front yard.  If you do nothing else to prepare your home, get the front yard in shape. Keep the lawn mowed, leaves raked or sidewalks shoveled, depending u...

What a difference a couple of years makes. Just a few years ago, most people were afraid of color when it came to painting the walls in their homes.  Most homeowners just stuck with white or cream with a little beige thrown in.  They just weren't ready to step out of their comfort zone and to try...

My 9-year-old grandson’s 3rd grade class is taking their CTAP test today.  Yesterday his teacher encouraged his class to “dress for success” so to help put them in the right frame of mind for the test.  Great idea, right?   Well, Brennan decided that dressing for success meant wearing a tux!  Tha...

I have recently learned a very valuable lesson (although I really should have known better).  I have a new Mac computer (which I love).  However, because it was new, I slacked off on backing up my information.  DUMB!! My hard-drive crashed.  OK, I thought.  I'll just send it to a data recovery co...

The last few years I have been concentrating on building the business, helping my daughter (a single parent) with my grandson, selling our home of 18 years and, now, rehabbing the little bank owned property we recently purchased.  Wow, what a whirlwind!    But now I’ve suddenly realized, I’ve neg...

I recently completed my training to become an APSD Certified Home Stager/Home Stager Pro Trainer.  And now I am so excited to be able to get going and begin helping others join a field that brings me so much pleasure and can do the same for them.   Home Staging is one of the top 10 growing profes...

  We just recently finished staging a new duplex.  It is a "scrape" in a nice older neighborhood.  The homes is a manufactured or prefabricated home.  It was manufactured in Minnesota and then shipped to the build site as a set of  "boxes".  The "boxes" were then unloaded and reassembled. It's ju...

We have begun work on the little bank owned property we recently purchased.  The poor thing was Stuck In the Eighties!  Including 80's carpet, 80's paint and 80's cork and mirror walls (all appliances were missing but I'm pretty sure they would have been eighties too).  We gutted everything.  Unf...

I had a home that I had recently staged sell.  Unfortunately the Realtor failed to notify me until 1:00 the day of closing!  I quickly rearranged my schedule and my assistant and I, with my poor 83 year old mother in tow, headed to the house.  As we pulled up my heart sank.  The new owners were a...

Just had one of our investors call to tell me he has sold the property we staged and we can come remove the furnishings.  In the last 2 weeks we've had 3 listings sell (go under contract) and a fourth has an interested buyer.  The first property went under contract in 7 days, the second in 29, an...