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!


Friday, August 26, 2011

Friday Treat – Remodelista – Sourcebook for the Considered Home

Julie, Janet, Sarah, Francesca and Christine are a group of friends who share “eerily similar design sensibilities; a collective design DNA”.  They live in California (Mill Valley and San Francisco), New York (Brooklyn Heights) and Connecticut (Niantic).  They are editors of Remodelista- Sourcebook for the Considered Home (http://remodelista.com ) and this week’s Friday treat.

The “Remodelistas” believe “the best advice comes from like-minded friends.”

“We’ve survived a dozen remodels among us, and after years of midnight consultations and email debates weighing the merits of a particular cabinet pull, we created an online forum for sharing our finds. Why go looking for the perfect faucet if your style-savvy neighbor has found The One?”

Where else can you find the best drying rack; Iman Deco black chairs; photos of Scott Lewis’s San Francisco landscape architecture; or, Wauw Design from Denmark (hand-thrown pieces from porcelain; specifically, delicate conical lights and glazed tabletops pieces)?  You can browse by room and find their recommendations on everything from kitchen furniture to tile and countertops; bath linens to toilet paper holders; coat racks to lounge chairs.  You can get inspired by “stealing a look” such as Canoe in Portland or Myles Henry’s Liquor Bar.

If you had a fire in your house, what would be the ten kitchen tools you could not live without and would need to rescue from the flames?  The “Remodelistas” have their list for ten simple low-tech implements for stirring, grinding, measuring, peeling, grating everyone should have in their kitchens (http://remodelista.com/posts/10-easy-pieces-editors-essential-kitchen-tools).

The possibilities are endless when you start perusing Remodelista as it is chocked full of ideas, experiences, and recommendations from coast-to-coast and around the world.  They make it easy “for our similarly inclined readers by offering an edited, screened, preapproved selection of our greatest hits.”  See what I mean at http://remodelista.com/
 

Dwell in possibilities but make sure to enjoy yourself in the process.


Cindy
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