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Chances are it is time for a deep clean of your home.  Whether it is for you to enjoy or for getting your house ready to sell we have a list of important areas to tackle.  

In some ways, summer is a great time to sell because many families are making a move. Also, depending on where you live, you do not have to worry about snow and other bad weather. But summer does come with its own challenges that are important to address when selling in the summer.

It seems like everyone is trying to make their backyards the place to be! If you are thinking about putting in a pool it can be overwhelming with how many choices and decisions, you must make. Start here to get your design ideas flowing and, read below to make a list of what you want.

When we consider refreshing a space in our home, it’s easy to know that we want something different. However, figuring out precisely what that is and how to execute it doesn’t follow suit. Oftentimes when decorating a space, it helps to start with a focus piece, something you love, and pull inspiration for colors and textures from it.

You might be surprised that a professional home stager considers a wide variety of market factors before they ever enter your home. These things include competition, demographics, and how your house will be marketed. Much more goes into staging than decorating.

Curb appeal is one of the 3 key first impressions buyers have of a property. Amanda was asked to help buyers with this very issue on a flat front house and is featured in the Homelight.com blog “How to Add Curb Appeal to a Flat-Front House: 9 Ideas for Improvement.”

Staging is not just for before you sell. More and more we have been getting requests from people to “stage” their new house. They want to live the same way as they sold their previous house. What that says to us is that they want a simpler, more organized life that looks pretty and functions well.

We are now offering a new service called “Stage to Live.”

If you are looking to get started on this concept right away we have a few steps you can follow.

In collaboration with other professionals around the country, Trisha was asked to contribute to the Redfin article: “Home Staging Tips": How to sell your home quickly”

Yes design that makes you happy does exist, and it doesn’t have to be expensive or stuffy!

Redfin reached out to Designing Impressions and other experts for our best advice on choosing the right art for home staging. A well-staged home can make all the difference in enticing a buyer to tour a listing, and something as simple as the artwork you choose can make or break a sale. Your home is where your design personality shines through, but when staging your home for sale, it’s important to keep personal mementos and photos tucked away to appeal to a wide range of buyers.

After 15 years of experience in the Home Staging Industry, Trisha has more than a few decluttering tips and can explain the rationale behind them! After all buying a home is psychological, so preparing a home for sale must take that psychology into account.

We have all been to that room or house that is just… meh. Not at all interesting and honestly, just plain boring. Does this sound like you?

Here are SIX quick and easy ways to add some interest and pizzazz to your living space!

See the kitchen in the picture accessorized at the end of the blog!

We get asked quite often what the difference between vinyl flooring and hardwood flooring is and if we recommend one over the other. There is a difference and pros and cons to both. To give the best answer, let me break it down into a few different examples:

Warmer weather is just around the corner, which also means more time spent enjoying the outdoors! Bringing the outside in, is a term we hear often about connecting our indoor living spaces to outdoor ones. Desiring a practical and beautiful living space doesn’t have to stop at the patio door. Here are 3 tips for bringing the inside out and creating a stylish outdoor living space that reflects your personal style and brings out the beauty of nature.

Boring is best is something we say a lot to our clients when helping them prepare a house for sale.

But when we say boring we don’t mean fall asleep and snooze boring. We mean mass appeal boring. Still confused?

Good. Then you should read more to find out what we mean!

There are so many things to consider when you are situating your living room. Whether it’s for the first time as you are moving into a new house or you are redoing a room because it’s just time! Here are six things to keep in mind.

Wouldn’t it be nice to go into the paint section of a store and just be drawn automatically to the perfect paint chip for your room? Sadly this rarely (if ever) happens. I just wanted to share some things that I do to make the whole process a little less daunting and hopefully make the whole experience more enjoyable!

Have you ever wondered what all this eDesign stuff is about? This walks you through the basic steps and what to expect from Designing Impressions eDesign service.

Have you ever wondered what information your interior stylist needs to really know YOU? Read to learn how you can use Pinterest to Help pinpoint your design style. In 5 simple steps you can help your stylist know how you want the space to look, feel, and function.

In today’s market where a home barely makes it to the MLS and often buyers are buying sight-unseen, you can argue that staging isn’t needed. With that logic home owners might argue the Realtor are not needed either. Got your attention there, didn’t I? We all know that’s a lie.

Thank you to the homeowners and Realtors that have trusted me to stage their or their clients biggest asset! My commitment to you as a professional is to continue to focus on doing this one thing at the highest standard of excellence. This is not my hobby. I do not have another job or another role in the real estate transaction. I focus entirely on the business of staging so that your asset or your listing achieves your desired result.

Are you wanting to redesign a space in your home but feeling clueless when someone asks you what your style is?It gets even more confusing when you identify with more than one style and your taste becomes a mash up. Start with this guide of 6 popular styles in 2021 to help you identify your personal design style, so your initial design consult leaves you feeling understood.

Have you ever stayed in a hotel and the closest place to charge your phone is across the room on the desk? Outlet placement can be the difference from a good place for charging your electronics, plug in the vacuum or lamp, or the most convenient place to put the beer fridge!

With everyone spending more time in their homes, there is a lot we are finding out about the places we live in and how they make us feel. Maybe we are discovering that there is a space or room that serves no purpose at all in our everyday lives. It is easy to push it off or ignore it because you are busy! Here are 5 different ways that I’ve found make the whole process a little easier!

As a listing agent you know that most home owners are going to be really proud of their house, no matter what, because at one point in time they picked it. So even if they are ready to move on, that strong emotion that led them to buy it, typically still is part of the equation. Bearing that pride in mind, oh, what fun it is to have a conversation about what they need to do to get ready to list…am I right??? Oh, it is not your favorite conversation? I am shocked. Read more for how we can help.