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!


Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Homeowners of the Week – Young Family with Exciting New Future

It is always rewarding to help spiff up a house and make it the best it can be through staging.  I really enjoy working with my clients but there are times when I connect with the sellers on a special level.  And that is the case with our latest Homeowners of the Week.

They are a cute, young professional family with an exciting future in another city.  Being a parent and grandparent, this little family reminded me of my daughter and her family as they are all about the same age.  I really wanted to help them move on to the next chapter of their life together.

The call came on Memorial Day from their trusted Realtor.  She apologized for calling me on a holiday, but, this couple really needed to sell their home in a short period of time and were willing to do what they needed to do in order to make it happen.  Time was of the essence!  Life was moving on in two months! 

We met at the home on Tuesday.  I gave a list of homework, a staging plan and a proposal.  This energetic young couple accepted my plan and proposal and dove into doing their homework.  Then, I did my staging and the house went on the market the next week.  It was a sprint to get everything done but we did it because we worked as a team!  Whew!  What a week it was!

The staging turned this home from a functioning home for new parents into a really pretty house that would appeal to many different buyers.  You can see from the dramatic before and after pictures that we all really worked hard and it made a huge difference.

As is the case in such a dramatic transformation, the big reveal of the fully staged home was really fun!  My “homeowners of the week” were happy, the Realtor was happy and hopefully a buyer will soon be happy.  And yes, I was happy too because it all came together into something special.

What made this darling young couple so special?  They did everything I told them to do and let me do everything I wanted to do.  And they really appreciated the value that home staging did for their house.  Our team went all out!  And for that they are my Homeowners of the Week.


Dwell in possibilities


Cindy


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