Spring is definitely in the air on this lovely sunny day. It’s a time when many of you are thinking about selling your property. Here are a few ‘low to no cost’ Staging Tips for your all important kerb appeal. Tip 1 – the front door Make sure your front door is in good order. …
Interior Design Interior Design is all about what you ‘the client’ likes. We will spend time helping you to work out: -which rooms you want to re-style -how you and your family will use these rooms -what kind of feel you want the rooms to have -how much you want to invest in your project …
Have you lived in your current home for 5, 10, 20 years or more? Do you want to revamp some or all of the rooms in your home? Don’t know where to start? Looking for Inspiration? “There is beauty in simplicity” Gail Lynne Goodwin Sometimes all you need to kick start your Home Makeover is …
When you go for an interview for a new job I’m sure you always dress well and wear a few well chosen accessories. That’s what you need to do with your home when you want to sell it for the best price as quickly as possible. You need to accentuate the positive things about your home. …
Someone asked me recently how the ‘Bonnet Bargains’ on Facebook started. Well, in August last year I was working on a project in Cantebury with my good friend and colleague, Katie Jackson of Home Staging SOS. We were out and about on a sourcing (aka shopping) expedition. In one of our favourite stores and we managed to …
This week (6th to 12th March 2017) is National Spring Cleaning Week. It’s that time of year when we start to think about clearing out our clutter and giving our home a top to bottom Spring clean. It can be a daunting task so the best way to tackle it is to break it down …
I spent a couple of weeks over on the Isle of Wight in February. It was a ‘working holiday’ so I got to go on lots of lovely beach walks and socialise with local friends in-between doing a few Winter maintenance jobs on my Holiday Let in Cowes. The bedside tables were in need of …
I’m always looking at ways to keep the costs down for my clients as well as being kind to the planet and recycling and upcycling whenever possible. On a recent home staging project I upcycled a couple of old canvas artworks. The first one I painted with some grey paint and then I used a wooden stencil to …
Baby boomers are people born during the demographic Post–World War II baby boom between the years 1946 and 1964. We are no longer babies, we have been exaulted to ‘Superboomers’. In summary: To claim this exaulted title we need to have a youthful attitude, keep active, eat health food, exercise lots, not retire early, spend …
How many shades of grey can you spot? I’m thinking more than 50! Don’t you just love the way nature provides such fabulous colour palettes for us. I found this grey palette in Mount Aspiring National Park, New Zealand.
