Design Love: How to Get That Magazine Look

Design Love: How to Get That Magazine Look

Working on a decorating project for a client, I wanted to find that perfect couch.  Something lush, with diamond tufts.  Maybe feeling like a deco library couch.   I had seen them in magazines, and loved the look.  

So I started shopping.  Wouldn’t you know it, but I could not find the style in the dimensions and colour that I wanted.  Not a single store in the Big Smoke carried just want I wanted.  Decorators can be pretty picky when it comes to the details, and retail stores just weren’t cutting it.

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To Stage or Not to Stage

To Stage or Not to Stage

It is a common question: what is the value of home staging?  Home staging can mean many different things, to many different people.   To most realtors and homeowners, it just means putting away your personal belongings, cleaning the pasta noodles out of the sink, and leaving the dog at a friends house during the open house. 

Not so...

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