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staging vignettes
A lot of times when I look at staging a vacant house, it can get somewhat cost prohibitive to fully stage everything. The rule of thumb is to highlight the
freecycle – it works!
So we thought about having a rummage sale recently but we didn’t have a whole lot of stuff – and what we did have wasn’t really great. No furniture or
Free Shred Day in Williamson County
I’m in the middle of working with a client who had a lot of papers. These are papers from deceased relatives that are not longer needed. After we’d sorted and bagged/boxed up all of them, we had to decide what do with them.
Pre-Listing Home Inspections – keep it sold after the sale
I’ve talked on my personal blog about pre-listing home inspections before, but I think this is such an important subject that unfortunately doesn’t get the attention it deserves when a house
procrastination vs. pajama casual
It’s interesting that the busier I get, the more I’ll get done. Then, when I’ve got some down time, like this week, I end up putting off things that really
stealing website content – not cool
I’m reading blogs on Active Rain this weekend while I’m out of town visiting my family, and come across a blogger who was furious about having some of her web
what to do when dead plants in urns just aren’t working for me
So I’m doing a staging at a vacant house last fall and the client had left two really nice urns on the front entry. Unfortunately, she left two very dead
How to keep a good subcontractor – treat ’em right – what goes around, comes around
Tomorrow morning I’m meeting my painter at a new client’s house, and then I’m off to the granite yard to look at some remnant pieces to glam up a client’s
Why I really like working with some agents, and why I don’t like working with others.
Oh, agents . . . can’t live with them, can’t live without them. I have some agents I just love working with. Here’s why: they show up at the house
the organizer box
My friend, and fellow organizer, Paige McClain Ramsey, recently created a cool new tool for anyone with a college bound kid. It’s called McClain’s College-Bound Organizer TM. It’s a lightweight
19th century William Morris quote – still works for me!
I was reading Wallpaper magazine recently – it’s a great way to get my fix of cool, hip “stuff” that I’d never buy since I have no room nor need
Window treatments – on the cheap.
This may have been covered in the past but the feedback I had from some other stagers about some recent window treatments I did encouraged me to blog on this.
