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Home Stager - Room Remedy Interiors, Sydney, Australia
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Many a home owner has come up with a plan to attack the much maligned walls of a too dark room.  All too often people fall into the trap of thinking that a fresh coat of paint will be their knight in shining armour. Paint is indeed good...very good actually, but it can’t work miracles. Lightening...
10/02/2011
I don’t know that there are too many Aussies here on AR, so I thought I might share with you just a little bit about the Land Down Under. Also known as the ‘other side of the world’.  1.We have our first female Prime Minister a lady named Julia who was born in Wales. I'd say she's not terribly po...
09/28/2011
Selling property in any market can see you riding one of life’s biggest emotional rollercoaster. One of the biggest culprits of the negative emotions that arise from selling property comes from the inevitable buyer feedback.  Some will of course be magic, but some of it will probably get your hac...
08/25/2011
Selling your house? Here are 5 myths about using colour in your home that can lead you down the garden path. 1. Light paint will make a dark room light again: There’s only one thing that will lighten a dark room – light. Either natural (daylight) or artificial (interior lighting). Vivid yellow is...
08/23/2011
Colour and the ‘for sale’ property can make for a stormy relationship at times. For maximum buyer appeal neutral seems the only way to go. But, neutral colour schemes often tread a very fine line between being fashionably subtle and sensationally boring.   So, is colour the enemy of the for sale ...
08/21/2011
I believe I’ll go out on a limb here and speak loudly and honestly about my utter dislike of the dreaded ‘oyster light’. As a professional house stager based in Sydney, my heart takes a little dive whenever I come across these awful things. Now, depending on where you live in the world these litt...
08/17/2011
One of my all time favourite television shows here in Australia is ‘Colour Confidential’ hosted by interior designer Jane Lockhart (pictured below). The show is somewhat unique in that the star of the show is not so much its female host, but rather an object. In this case it’s an interactive 3D c...
08/07/2011
  The people who can get that new house you just listed around the corner looking the way it ought to look in the shortest period of time ready for resale isn’t the homeowners or your colleagues – it’s a professional advisor. I’m talking about a home stager. This is the person whose job it is to ...
08/06/2011
Just building a website and having it go ‘live' on the information super highway that is the internet, won't be enough for your customers find you. There is no "build it and they will come" ideal to getting found online. For your home staging or real estate business website to do its job effectiv...
07/19/2011
For a great many people working in, or around the field of professional home staging, the emphasis on depersonalizing casts a giant shadow over the whole staging concept. So much so, that many home stagers will gladly point out that depersonalizing a house during the staging process is a big part...
07/05/2011
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