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.
New can be a lot of things, but it isn’t normal. New is different. It catches our attention. With new, we experience or process something we haven’t been faced with before. Funny or scary; exciting, inspiring, surprising, or off-putting, new … Continued
Originally published February 28, 2018, updated and re-published March 20, 2022 Oscar time of year always makes me think of the year we all were speaking in half-sentences afterward: “Did you see…?”, “Can you believe…?” , “What the heck …?”, … Continued
Originally published February 2013, updated and re-published several times since, most recently on March 1, 2022 Most of us know and love Katie Couric. She brightened our mornings and delivered bad news directly and compassionately. But a lot of us … Continued
Good communication isn’t about quantity, volume, or fancy words. It’s knowing how to have a point or idea resonate and be memorable. And sometimes it’s about finding kinder ways to say hard things. That’s why analogies are this Westchester County’s … Continued
Experience gives you insight, a way of explaining things and the right to opinions. This month, as I begin a(nother) decade in this crazy-wonderful business, here are some of the things clients of The Refreshed Home have gotten used to … Continued
Marie Kondo’s urging divestiture of unnecessary possessions is always a good lead-in for home stagers, but today’s inspiration comes from the story of Disney’s Princess Elsa. Her inadvertent actions hurt others, and the well-intentioned efforts were not received so well … Continued
Those of us in higher-end goods and services know the word luxury is not the buyer-nip it used to be. In my fields of design and home staging, I have a front-row seat. I see what buyers choose…what they under-value, … Continued
Bandwidth is capability: the level of ability to process, and get something done. Familiar as IT-techno talk, but universally applicable. Why is it more palatable to accept limits on technology, but ohso hard to accept our own personal limitations? When … Continued
Yes, the days are racing by. Almost September, made your New Years Resolutions yet? No relation to the retail thing, i.e. early marketing for financial gain. I’m speaking to why so many of us consider Labor Day the de facto start … Continued
There is lot going on the world these days. Many hearts are ohso heavy, and the ongoing, omnipresent ‘updates’ magnify the sorrow. Dismiss the ‘there has always been great discord, social media just lets us see it more now’ argument-it … Continued
