February is gone and we’ve been extremely busy! Two homes sold that we staged... one in New Canaan, Ct and one in Westchester, New York. And four more stagings went in, transforming cold and empty homes to warm and inviting homes. Remember an empty home is an unmemorable home. Buyers buy homes that tug at their heart strings.

People remain hesitant to take action because of the constant economy-bashing in the media, but now is not the time to sit still, now is the time to take action. It is more important than ever to stage and aggressively market your house.

In The News: Please pick up a copy of the March/ April Bedford Magazine featuring a very cool piece about Stage to Show called “The Stage Is Set” on page thirty. Also if you are in New Canaan, this weeks New Canaan News Review has a new column in the Business section by Ann Sample Lineberger featuring Stage to Show!

March is here and soon Spring will be blooming, and this year it will bring a needed, universal sigh of hope. Flowers will be blooming, buyers will be buying!

Cheers!
Gabrielle

Well, this summer has been a real eye-opener for me.

I got to personally experience the pressure I put on my clients to get their homes ready for sale.

My husband and I decided that our home was just too much to take care of with two businesses, two children, two ponds, two out-buildings and over six acres of very landscaped property. We needed a break. Our dream is to downsize to something small and charming with a yard.

Six years of filling our barn (yes, we’re both collectors) to the rafters, plus the house and cottage made me feel like an anxiety attack was looming every time I looked at it all. Six dumpsters later, one for every year, and we were down to something manageable. What didn’t go into dumpsters went to charity, (it was a lot), and that was just the beginning...

Painting inside and out;
Replacing any rotting wood, and on an antique home... well, you know;
Making sure we were mulched and weeded and trimmed;
With two little bizarre empty rooms in the basement that became catch-all- dump rooms, we created a wine celler and an art room;
I redid curtains and reupholstered the sofa in the family room, and staged and staged and staged.

$20,000 dolars later, we sold our home to the first person who saw the house!

I did my job! We also got lucky on the timing front.

I have since vowed to do a mini cleanup makeover every year - I deserve to live in my home like I’ve always wanted, all the time, not just when I’m going on the market!

Cheers!
Gabrielle