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We Each Can Do Something: Consults for a Cause 2021 & 2022
I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything; but still I can do something. ~Edward Everett Hale Heard-or read?-this quote some years ago, and it…
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Expectations, and All You Can Eat Sushi
Never thought about the words All You Can Eat Sushi being together, in one phrase before until I saw this in a FB feed. There are instances where unlike things…
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Enjoy Next Summer: Use the Next Snow Storm to Plan Spring Home Improvements
When you’re doing the next pre-storm snack and bread run, spring home improvements are probably not on your mind. Buffalo wings or stromboli (or AND stromboli?). Cocoa Puffs, chips, guac,…
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Relisting? What are You Going to Change This Time?
Every so often, if the planets are aligned, relisting a property exactly the same way will work the 2nd time. External changes like inventory levels, interest rates, even a different…
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Did Downsizing or Selling the Family Home Come Up Over the Holidays?
Holidays are typically a time to re-connect and catch up. This year, in perhaps a more meaningful way than ever before. If downsizing or selling the family home was one…
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Staging Co-ops and Condos, Part One
Staged co-ops and condos seems oxymoronic in Westchester’s hot real estate market, right? I mean, buyers are not spending a lot of money. And if they’re not happy, they should…
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PUZZLED About Decorating or Redesign?
Decorating or redesign in your future? Maybe a new space, or just want a new look, but you’re hitting a wall. The design shows, social media, et al make it…
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Yeah, I’m the “Eat Your Broccoli” Kind of Home Stager
Eat your broccoli. Tuck your shirt in. Is your homework done? No ball playing in the house. Turn that DOWN! Anyone involved in keeping kids on the straight and narrow…
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COTY 2022: Will the Design Community EVER be Happy?
When pigs fly. A cold day in hell. Don’t hold your breath. Etc. You’ve heard them all, idioms relating to highly improbable events. Well, pigs are zooming past snowballs in…
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”It’s Only Weird if it Doesn`t Work”
Originally published in January 2014, updated and re-published October 2021 Because we are $*&?!! in the middle of some sports season “It’s Only Weird if it Doesn’t Work”. This is…
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