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How It Works
Most have never worked with a designer or home stager. You may have read or heard things or had a TV show plant a seed in your mind. But you wonder, really, how does it work?
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The Seven: Q1 2026
Welcome back to The Seven: TRH’s quarterly musings on news, insights, and trends for better spaces, and better lives. 1 Lunar Year of the Fire Horse: Could not be more…
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I Want to Teach the World to Sing*
I want to teach the world to sing. Odd topic for a staging and design blog…but not really. Depending on how old you are, you’re either thinking hard, doing an…
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10 Questions to Ask Besides “How Much?”
“How much?” is one first questions agents or potential clients want to ask. And why not? For most, engaging with a design or home staging pro is new territory. Money…
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Are You a Hat Person?
Are you a hat person? That is, you enjoy them and wear them well. No? Then maybe you tan well? Or you’re funny. Can you paint? Do you have the…
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Hey Nineteen!
Hey nineteen! WHOA, how could that possibly be?? But it’s true! And how cool is it, that nineteen years in, The Refreshed Home’s core design and staging client has remained…
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Will Work for Food: Consults for a Cause
There’s a lot I can say about the current ongoing shame and disgrace of the financial sustenance being cruelly denied to our most vulnerable. Then yesterday I read of a…
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The Seven, Q4
Welcome back to The Seven: New and noteworthy ideas and trends to contemplate for you, your spaces, and your life. Trends and fads both come from very real places, and…
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2026 COTYS: Kinda Meh
Color forecasting is the serious behind-the-scenes science, math, and data crunching that drives what we consumers see on the racks, the shelves, and the showroom floors. Global and year-round, what they’re working…
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How Old Are Your Smoke and CO2 Detectors?
In December of 2008, on the last day of a roof repair in my complex, a worker using a torch improperly started a fire. I was working from home that…
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