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A Successful Home Staging Project

Something I don’t talk about quite so often on the blog is some of my Home Staging work.  I thought I’d show you a project I did a little while back that was very successful.  It was a $3.5 million house that was sold in 3 weeks.  The property sat for nearly 2 years vacant and unsold until I put some furnishings in it.  Some of these items were painted by myself and my crew…and we also did a little bit of faux finishing in the house as well to help sell it.  We did everything in about a week – so it was a very busy week!  Here are some photos from the home.

a painted canopy bed in a staged home in Muttontown NY

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A Revamped Chair and a Rescued Paint Job!

Revamping an Old Vintage Chair with Annie Sloan Chalk Paint

Just a little post this morning about a recent chair revamp that I did. I was late in getting this up because something was awry with WordPress or the server – I don’t know which!  But miraculously, all is well this morning. 

vintage caned chair revamped and antiqued with Annie Slaon Chalk Paints

 Here’s the chair after the restoration  (more…)

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Revamping an Old Chair for a New Purpose

This week I was asked to stage a vacant home in Malverne NY.  It’s a lovely Dutch Colonial that has a great, homey feel to it.  When I looked at the home for the first time, I jotted down my ideas for which furnishings to bring to make this house feel even more like a home.  I usually know pretty quickly – but I knew that I might be missing one or two things that would make the staging complete.The home featured an enclosed porch that’s adjacent to the living room.  It’s a narrow room, so I knew that I had to bring a loveseat.  But what should I place on the other side?   It needed a relaxed feel but the piece had to be a bit compact. A wing chair would be too formal and too large.  I had an idea what to use…but it needed a little work and an OK from my husband.

This is the piece I used…but it didn’t start out that way.  It was dark and ugly but you didn’t see much of it ’cause my husband’s clothes covered most of it!  I convinced him I needed it for a job and that I had to lighten it up and make it prettier.  He said “Why?” and I just looked at him and then he said “OK!”

This picture would have looked funnier if I had taken it with all of his clothes racked on top of it – but at least I got a before (OK – with a few paint marks!).  I had to finish this in a hurry – like a half day – in order to get the staging job done. 

I used Annie Sloan’s Chalk Paint in Cream.  I didn’t have enough time to do the waxing but I add some nice stencilled French words, a motif or two and some distressing and the chair was ready to go. I used several word and graphic stencils from Maison de Stencils to make the job go quickly!

Here are some other shots of the home I staged…

It was a fun job – except for the fact that the air conditioning was not really working well (and it was about 100 degrees outside!).  But we managed to get all the furniture, lamps, rugs and accessories in – without dying of heatstroke. One of my great workers, Lyn, suggested to the realtors that perhaps they should take the winter cover off the air conditioning units.  That worked…alas too late!

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A Beautiful, Well-Designed, Staged Home in Muttontown NY That Sold Quickly

Our sister company, Beautiful Staged Homes, created a wonderful, well-designed $3.5 million staged home in Muttontown NY.  Staging a home for sale is a bit different than designing a home for very personal use…but this newly constructed home showed a potential buyer how beautiful their life could be, if they purchased the home.  That’s what I think the purpose of home staging really is – it shows the buyer “how to live” beautifully, serenely – to live their “Best Lives.”  It is a beautiful property – and it “sold” within 3 weeks of being on the market!  So – in the higher-end market, staging can really make a property “a HOT commodity.” 

We created some beautiful decorative finishes in this home…

  • A gilded ceiling medallion in the dining room
  • A soft metallic sage green plaster in the powder room
  • A pearl stried finish on the dining room walls
  • Several aged finishes on the furnishings throughout the house

Here’s a link to more of the beautiful rooms in this home

Photo Album of Muttontown Home

For more information about beautiful home staging contact Linda Leyble at 631 793-1315.

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