Home Staging and Decorating thought activism at its most passionate! Snappy answers and reasoned resets for your space and your stuff, and why it all matters so darn much.
As we navigate through COVID, houses are still being listed every day here in Westchester County. Offers are being made, and deals are being closed. More cumbersome, and in understandably smaller numbers. But it’s happening because people want to get … Continued
Regular readers, clients, and their agents know yellow pansies are a hallmark of TRH’s staged properties in early spring. Hardy, cheerful and photogenic, a heads-up for agents and their buyers that these sellers took their part of things seriously. For … Continued
Many years ago, in the middle of my corporate design career I was wooed away, and for a brief time I sold Mercedes-Benz cars. As part of training, went to the Lime Rock racetrack in Connecticut. There’s a driving school … Continued
Regular readers know The Refreshed Home was voted Westchester’s Best Home Stager this year by the readers of Westchester Magazine…now it’s time to defend this title! Ballots are out for 2020’s Best of Westchester contest. Can I count on your … Continued
You’ve got a list…and the wish to find special gifts. Shopping Westchester would be AWESOME….but time is fleeting, and your laptop is beckoning. WAIT! Before you fill an online cart with whatever’s trending, consider a gift card for a local … Continued
GET OUT!! Who knew the best advice to characters in a horror movie would be the same advice to help those trying to clear out or lighten up their space?? GET OUT!! We scream, mouth (or yell) at it the … Continued
Getting ready to paint? Might want to check out your light bulbs first. Paint colors and lighting are intertwined; always my first consideration in design and staging consults. Paint color anchors a room, and nothing determines how paint color reads … Continued
This has been a very good week for staging clients of The Refreshed Home. Through Wednesday, 4 properties closed. One was a condo, a full-ask, cash sale. The other 3 were occupied single family properties. 2 also got full ask, … Continued
Many of us hang onto things we don’t need, intending to donate them when we can. But donating-actually getting them to their destination-can be hard. The economics of most charities limit what they can take, and when . Life is … Continued
The concept of making an effort to put one’s best food forward is timeless, and universal. First dates…job interviews…even selling your car. BUT if it’s about a property you’re selling and (GASP) you call it Home Staging, well that’s a … Continued
