Year in Review: Helping You Look Ahead

Now that all the ho-ho-hoing is behind us, it's time to jump into 2014 with fresh goals and sweet expectations. A popular inspirational ...

How to Make a Padded Headboard to Stage Your Bedroom

Need a tutorial for a DIY headboard? No problem.There's a gazillion of them in blogland. I wanted to design a headboard that was perfect...

How to Use Today's Trendy Grey and Yellow Palette

Looking for a crowd-pleasing color combo that looks clean and contemporary to make your home attractive to buyers? I vote for grey and yello...

How to Make Patterns Work for Your Home Staging

Pattern mixing 101: Keep it simple. This place setting is just squiggles and stripes, done in members of the blue family  Every staged home ...

Stumped by Staging? These People Were.

The blue walls of this dining room are the same intensity as the brown walls in the neighboring rooms.  Did you have a teacher who said, “Th...

Make the Bed that Sells the Bedroom

The bed is almost always the focal point of the bedroom.  Make the most of it by staging it to impress buyers and capture their imaginations...

Five Simple Ways to Add Style to Your Home Staging

''Fashion changes, but style  endures.''    -- Coco Chanel Elegant, fashionable, luxurious, distinctive, smart. These are th...

Roundup of my Favorite 2012 Posts

A front door in Charleston, South Carolina, welcomes the new year.  I chose to feature these posts based on how helpful they would be to you...

If You Ask Me About Home Staging ... And You Did.

These are some of the questions I've received lately from readers and others. If you have a question about staging your own home, make i...

The Stars Align When You Sprinkle in Some Bling

Aren't these contemporary Mercury glass vessels from West Elm  to die for? Here's my choice of the best tutorial for hacking the Mer...