It’s a question that I’m frequently asked during consultations. Clients will show me into an area such as a bedroom or living area and say “Excuse the mess, I don’t know how to make things look good”. If they’re styling their home to sell, that’s easy! I can rattle off a whole list of tips […]
A trend that we’ve seen recently is a move towards that ‘unmade bed’ look. It makes a bedroom feel everything that it should…cozy, warm, inviting and relaxed. While I wouldn’t normally recommend it for styling to sell, it can look great for those who love to live in a home that looks and feels on-trend […]
If you’re one of the lucky ones to still have a job during the Covid-19 pandemic AND your able to do it from home, congrats! For those who already work from home on a regular or irregular basis, you’d have a comfortable little arrangement going on that suited your own needs just perfectly and for […]
We were recently published in the Place Estate Agents (Aspley) Quarterly Market Report for August 2019. Click on the link below to download our article, or click the picture to have a read and find out ‘what’s hot and what’s not’ for property styling as we head into the busy Spring season…
A breathtaking room can take a while to create. It needs to be in harmony with the architecture, be appropriate to your life, be well lit and enduring. So where do you start? One shortcut to a striking look is to keep the colour scheme simple -shades of black , white, grey and neutral tones. […]
In my 20’s while my friends were buying flat pack furniture or sleeping on a mattress on the floor, I bought myself a four-poster bed, and everyone thought I had gone mad. In a time when I didn’t know what the future might hold for me, I found that a four-poster bed gives you a […]
Sometimes in life, it’s nice to bring the outside in and the inside out. Think of a vase of flowers on a table; a picnic blanket on a lawn. A simple bloom that may die in a week, might seem trivial, but the role of flowers in our lives is not. For many centuries flowers […]
Some of you may be young at heart enough to remember the decades when wood interiors reigned supreme. Think, eighties kitchen where wood floors matched cupboard doors, and all the room was furnished to match, even the skirting boards were exposed wood! The over-all effect was very brown, and very matchy-matchy. And while that might […]
Property styling goes by many names…home staging, home decorating, property staging, home styling, interior stylist…the list goes on! At its core, property styling is the use of presentation and design strategies to make your home as visually appealing as possible, to the widest range of buyers. A property stylist will use a range of techniques […]
Some people might call you crazy if you’re placing your home on the market while still living in it with kids, but you’ve gotta do what you’ve gotta do! For a family that has some basic routines and structure in place already, it’s definitely d-able. I won’t say it’ll be a stress-free experience, but I […]
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