And does the architecture of the house really matter when homeowners and stagers aer supposed to produce something generic, hoping to make the home appeal to as many potential buyers as possible?Does anyone really know the difference between a Queen Anne and a Victorian? Mission/Priarie vs. Arts
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02/18/2008
The Victorian Country, intricately carved buffet that takes up most of your Dining Room because it doesn't fit in her condo....The charming, though perhaps a little large, acrylic-on-canvas vase of tulips (er, possibly?) she painted with some buds at the Y at one of their Monet in Morning session
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02/14/2008
There's often an awkward moment when you finish speaking and open it up to questions. So, it was yesterday when I spoke at a house I had partially staged thanks to a call from a fellow Rainer! (a blog on that to follow - but what a great team, great house, total win for all!)I was asked how I fe
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02/14/2008
Here is one of the best-built houses I've come across yet! It was inspired by American Bungalow, but has become way more than that. Please check it out and send any and all fans of the Craftsman style.194 Long Hills Drive, Short Hills, NJ 07078 Juliet Johnson Staging can be reached at (973)
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02/11/2008
There was some furniture here in this home in Westfield, NJ, but for the most part, the homeowners had taken everything with them to the new house. Westfield is another NJ swanky community on a direct train line to New York City. The dining room set was already here. We change
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02/09/2008
Many have kindly asked whatever happened to the historical mansion with the organ that I was struggling with. (and blogged about repeatedly!)It went back on the market yesterday and was being shown to a potential buyer during the Brokers' Open House/Caravan. This already achieves the objective
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02/09/2008
Snore."Madame Chaing Kai-Shek had tea in the tea house"I thought it was a pool house... aw, that thing's a tea house, you say?"Enrico Caruso sang in the Living Room"Ye-es, that's nice, but he died in 1921 so that has to be a while ago now, no? ------ I know this $3 million home is not going to ap
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02/01/2008
