happy holidays and happy staging

Do you have your home on the market during the holidays? Do you feel you are going to lose your mind...well you dont have to...here are some helpful hints to live in your home during the holidays while it is on the market

• wrap all gifts in the same neutral paper
• keep decorations to a minimal
• pack up everyday items when putting out holiday ones..you will be packing them anyway so do it now and save a step.
• celebrate the season when at all possible and skip the holiday
• think of this as a great time to pack everyday items and then after the holidays you can pack and store your holiday displays.

I DO hope this helped...any questions or problems please email me.

Well, You staging stalkers I am off to Wenham in the am for a consult then I begin staging Beverly....just dropping off staging supplies tomorrow and will start staging Wednesday. I also hope to swing by and say hello to my Hamilton job while they are settling in their new home. So I am pretty well booked from now until january 22. However if you need me I can always manage...If you are considering putting your home on the market consider staging, it works.

Holidays are approaching

Hello everyone,
I have finally caught up on some well needed rest. Business has been booming and Staging is working. Monday begins another busy week for me. I have been scheduling all the contractors for my upcoming job in Middleton. We had a pre-staged broker open house the other day it was so much fun to get the recommendations from the realtors and compare it to my recommendations...we were all pretty much in sync. I served them a simple breakfast and toured them through the property. This has been a great opportunity for me as the homeowner is a realtor at Keller Williams and she is using this as a test product for staging. She has given me a budget to work in for the contractors and the staging and as I said we had a prestaged tour and once the project is complete we will have the same realtors in for a post staging tour. This thursday I will attend a special class at Keller Williams Beverly office to see how they instruct the agents as to price this home. I have already put more time into this staging job than most completed projects but it has been well worth it. I haven't even begun the staging process and already have invested at least 40 hrs . I believe it will all pay off in the end.

On another note the joy of staging....Last night we went out to dinner with my assistant and a client and his friend. We had so much fun, laughs, good food, good wine. If it were not for staging I would have never known this three wonderful people. Hopefully tomorrow I can swing by Hamiliton to visit my most recent client in their new home.

I LOVE MY JOB AND ALL THE WONDERFUL PEOPLE I WORK FOR. HAPPY HOLIDAYS TO EVERYONE.

Best,
Jeanne

TIRED STAGER..BUT TOMORROW IS ANOTHER DAY

Hello all you interested Stagers....it has been a busy week, month for me. Today I was in Beverly delivering paint for my next job...and then it was back to Hamiliton at 4 to begin the de-staging process (the worst part of staging) I had to remove all my inventory from their home load my car(s) come home, unload, re-pack for beverly....re-stock my inventory, etc. It was sad to take all my inventory from Hamiliton as the house looked so awesome with all my things..it was sad to say goodbye to new friends..but friends I know I will still have...we have actually shopped for bargains together and I know we will continue to do so. It is amazing the people you meet along your journey...but you know what they say...you meet the same people on the way up as you do on the way down..the big and the little both have need of eachother....not sure where that came from, but a good message.
I am god willing attending the KW Beverly Holiday sale on Friday..I have a consult in the morning .. but I do hope it allows me to still attend the shopping event and participate. One part of being a stager I will never get use to is the change in schedule hour by hour...but it is all worth it.
I am going to see if I can figure out how to download pics from the somerville job and post them here so until I do, goodnight.
best,
Jeane

ANOTHER SATISFIED CUSTOMER..AND NEW FRIEND

What can I say, I love my job...I get the opportunity to meet some of the kindest, most wonderful people. The family that wrote the below testimonial was one of the neatest families I have ever met (they actually all sit at the table and share breakfast and dinner together.) All of their grown children contributed to the move, they are amazing. I am so lucky to meet such great folks. See below:

Hi Jeanne, the following is to go on your blog: Jeanne visited my home four days after I decided to sell it out of the blue. I wasn't planning on moving for two years but the house I am buying came up for sale and it is 'me'! Jeanne has a phenomenal eye. She saw through my 28 years of clutter and her vision for transforming my house for 'sale ready' was nothing short of miraculous. Jeanne staged it in one day and we had an offer 11 days later!! We close and move next week, six weeks after it being placed on the market! It is nothing short of amazing how she can take your things, add a few others and you then have a home you never knew could look like those in a magazine!! I have learned that staging is not just for selling. I want her to come to my new house and help me stage that, too! Best, Debbie