Providing Services to Prepare the Home for Sale

We all know that all our president has to do is create a rule or say there is an emergency and it's done.

Look at the swine flu.  He said there was a epidimec and 'pow' two weeks later is was gone.

Let's get him to impose a rule on wall paper.  The glue must self destruct after 5 years.

The wall paper should just vaporize.

Wouldn't that make our lives just a bit easier?

Kitchen Before

After Stage-Show-Sell, LLC crew attacked the offending paper

Breakfast room and Butler's pantry after.

I love what I do.   No Where Else Could I Make Such a Change.

Stage-Show-Sell.LLC has many tools boxes.   One for electrical, one for staging, one for hanging art work and of course one for cleaning.

The q-tip, along with toothbrushes,  has become indispensable in the cleaning tool kit.

One of the last staging jobs that we worked on had flies.  Lots of flies everyday.

The owners daughter said that they have been in the house for the past 10 years.

We all know that we all see flies dirt and uncleanliness.  The house wasn't dirty.  It did need a once over yes but it wasn't dirty.

My crew took q-tips to the window tracks and sliders.  We then vacumned them all.  The windows were cleaned and then a bug and spider spray was applied to all.

It's been three weeks and there is not a fly (dead or alive) around.

Flies like to lay their eggs in the window sills and when the sun hits them, even on cold winter days, they will hatch.

Not a fun subject but and extremely important one.

As an Orchestrator of Estate Is do everything that necessary to prepare a home for sale.   This includes cleaning out the stuff that WE ALL seem to accumulate.

The past couple of weeks I've looked at my own home as I've it's an estate.   Oh my, what changes I'm makiing.

Closets are being dumped.  I'm working on the basement.  Papers are being scanned and tossed and more.

I found this in my closet and thought I would share it with you.

Yesterday while waiting for the rain storms to dispate I played on AR, AGAIN

http://activerain.com/blogsview/644623/Eco-Living-Style-On

Julia game me some ideas that I would share.

My yard has rocks, stones, pebbles and gravel.   LOTS

I thought that I would play with Eco friendly candle holders.

I think this is going to be a great project with my grand daughter.  X-mas gifts for teachers?

Hang artwork without putting holes in the walls

Sounds interesting and very promising.  3M Command Picture Hanging strips uses Velcro to hold art on the walls.  They come is different sizes for different weights of art. 

I purchsed the set of small strips and tried them out.  The directions are clear, though the print is small, and easy to use.  4 small strips cost $2.97.   That's a hefty price for hanging art work so I'd recommend it for homes that are fanactical about not putting holes in the walls.

It's a great system.  One piece of velco on the back of the art.  Push the 2nd piece into it .  Pull off the protective strip from the glue and add it to the wall.  It's easy to hold small level on the top  and just push it onto the wall

My test of the product worded just fine.  The first strip I didn't pull the release strip far enough and it removed the paint on the wall.   The 2nd one worked just fine with no damage.

Once the piece has been removed from the wall it's a throw away.  No way that it can be reused :-(

That's expensive.

To make the product a little more cost effective I put regular adhesive velco on the art work and the expensive strips on the wall.  That's a lot cheaper and cost effective.

The regular glued velcro tore the paint off the wall  when I removed it.  Luckily that wall needs painting anyway.

The possibilities with this system are endless.  Want to hang somethig from the ceiling :-)

How about a piece that you want to hang on an angle?

and the next time you use it you want it square

(check out the image of the art on the opposite wall and the camera lens  :-)   )

This would save me from removing and repositioning the hooks and wires.

I like the product.   Hope 3M comes out with a cheaper price.

Chairs on the walls   OH MY

We've all seen trends come and go and of course in staging we want them to go.

This chair on the wall was in a home that we staged a couple of months ago.   Of course, we took if off thinking that it was a little too much for a home that was for sale.

This past week I was in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.  

Maybe I was wrong and should have kept the chair on the wall.   The museum has good taste doesn't it?

What do you think?   New trend in staging

Stage-Show-Sell, offers affordable home staging solutions in the Birmingham – Bloomfield and surrounding areas in getting your home ready for the market. We service both home sellers and realtors. We have the experience, our own rental furniture and accessories to stage many homes. We specialize in Estate work. The house can be put into our hands for the whole process of getting the house on the market.

An ASP REALTOR knows when to call in the specialists.  This condo was listed before me.  As soon as I walked in I knew it wasn't the price.