Since creating the “to be continued” blog, I’ve been closing each post with the words “dwell in possibilities.” I must confess that I borrowed this phrase from the great poet, Emily Dickinson. I saw her quote and realized that it summed up what I am doing as a professional home stager and interior designer.

I am most grateful to Ms. Dickinson for her insightful and inspiring phrase.

Regardless of the size or price range of a house, my objective is to find the possibilities in that house. I am looking for those unique features of that house and finding possible ways to accentuate them for the potential buyer. I am analyzing those unusual spaces that buyers find difficult to understand upon first glance and finding possible functional uses for those spaces.

In the end, my mission is to help the potential buyer see how they could dwell in the possibilities of this house!


Thursday, January 10, 2013

So what have you been doing with yourself, Cindy?


“So what have you been doing with yourself, Cindy?  It has been so long since you last shared a post on “to be continued” we almost forgot about you?”  I hope that is what some of you have been thinking.  

I must confess that it has been way too long since I posted on “to be continued” but I have excuses, explanations and evasions.  The short answer (and also the truth) is that I have been extremely busy over these past months doing some amazing work!   

But the good news is that I am back and better than ever – resolved to be a more regular communicator about professional home staging.  And I plan to share some of my 2012 adventures in this and upcoming blog posts. 

2012 was an amazing year for me and one that I will find it hard to duplicate!  A few of the highlights include: 

·         Transitions Home Staging was featured and I was interviewed for a Tulsa World article about home staging (Tulsa resident readies her home of 28 years for the market - http://www.tulsaworld.com/scene/article.aspx?articleid=20120407_44_D1_CUTLIN669483)

·         I was selected to stage a Brian D. Wiggs (http://www.briandwiggs.com/ ) signature home for the 2012 Parade of Homes.  More about this one in another blog post.

·         I was hired this August to decorate and furnish the housing for the cast of the movie August: Osage County which was filmed in and around Bartlesville and Pawhuska. The cast members, who lived in these lofts, included Meryl Streep, Julia Roberts, Chris Cooper, Ewan McGregor, Dermot Mulroney, Juliette Lewis, Margo Martindale, Julianne Nicholson and Abigail Breslin.  This was an amazing experience and I will share more about the experience in an upcoming blog post.

·         Two samples of my home staging work were recognized by the Real Estate Staging Association as one of RESA’s Top 10 Best Occupied Stagings™North America.  I submitted “before” and “after” pictures of two staging projects that I did in the Tulsa area.   The RESA membership from across the USA and Canada voted on all the entries and I ranked among the top 10.  I will be competing for the overall title which will be announced at the RESA convention in late January.

·         Even with my blogging sabbatical, I posted 35 discussions on my “to be continued” blog and was blessed with more than 2000 visitors.
 
·         Most importantly, I made new friends; worked with incredibly savvy realtors; and, helped convince buyers to make the emotional decision to buy that house! 

Since creating the “to be continued” blog, I’ve been closing each post with the words “dwell in possibilities.”  I must confess that I borrowed this phrase from the great poet, Emily Dickinson.  I saw her quote and realized that it summed up what I am doing as a professional home stager and interior designer - my mission is to help the potential buyer see how they could dwell in the possibilities of this house!   

So, remember what Emily and I say and . . . 

Dwell in possibilities! 

Cindy

 
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