Maximize your shopping time

  Are you a nutty designing shopper? If not, you should be. Imagine you are shopping in your favorite home goods store, pushing a squeaky shopping cart down the aisle filled with a mixed but not quite matched bunch of accessories. Frustrated since nothing seems...

Lakeway Blvd Vacant Staging

  Recently I had the privilege of joining in with a fantastic group of folks in preparing a home to sell. I worked with the property manager – and if anyone needs a dedicated, goes-above-and-beyond, honest, hard-working property manager, I can highly recommend...

Redesigning a bench from trash to treasure

    As I love to stage vacant homes I often find myself in furniture stores, which gives me an opportunity to find really inexpensive treasures.  By treasures I mean pieces that have been damaged, are old or outdated, or could use a little repurposing and design...

Every room must have a purpose!

From a design perspective it is important for every space to have a purpose, however if your home is for sale it is absolutely ESSENTIAL! Buyers are paying for square footage, and certainly don’t want to spend money on wasted space. So every nook and cranny must be...

Designing distractions with chocolate

  Just like you can redirect a home buyer’s attention from the imperfections of a home with staging – you can focus someone’s attention from an imperfect candy jar, by filling it with chocolate! Is there anyone else that loves to take a project from a magazine...