Modern Home Decorating

Kakoschke gone into the field of home staging with the goal of getting a guaranteed job at $31.45 per hour, it’s safe to say things would have worked out much differently for her.

This Staging Diva Graduate and founder of Hunter Lake Home Staging and Design says of this, her second chance career, “I made more money in the first 10 months in my own staging business than I used to make in a whole year working for the government as a Contract Manager. And now I work half the hours that I used to!”

What Laura understood when she got into this field and some aspiring home stagers don’t, is that a promised job for $31.45 an hour is actually a complete devaluation of her talents. Laura did her research before signing up for a training program and learned that home stagers can actually earn between $250 and $700 for just a two-hour consultation. She realized what she needed were the skills to promote her services and market her own business so she could be in control of her own employment.

It certainly worked out for her. In her first 10 months as a home stager, Laura landed so many of her own projects that she ended up staging 12 vacant properties. When you consider that staging a vacant home can earn a stager anywhere from $3,000 to $10,000 profit per house (even if they don’t use their own inventory), having 12 of these in less than a full first year of a new business is significant.

The largest of Laura’s projects was a $2.5 million vacant estate home which she furnished from top to bottom. “This was an intense experience,” says Laura, “but an awesome opportunity to put my home staging training into practice.”

One of her recent projects saw Laura staging a house that had been sitting on the market for four months. Before Hunter Lake Home Staging and Design came in, the real estate agent was skeptical about staging. Her thinking completely changed after Laura finished staging the property. With new furniture and accessories, the house sold in only four days. “The change in the decor was like night and day,” says Laura, “and we didn’t even have to paint or replace brass fixtures.”

This mother of three children loves the freedom that comes along with being her own boss. “I can work my own hours, set my schedule, be at home to teach (home school) in the mornings and work my staging business in the afternoons,” reports Laura. “My three boys get a first-hand look at running a business. I hope that the courage I found to follow my dream will inspire them to follow theirs, and to know that anything is possible.”

Like many Staging Diva students, Laura approached her home staging career with the attitude that she wanted to finally use her natural talents to earn a living without having to spend 4 years in an interior design program.

“I’m 39 and if it weren’t for the opportunities available to a stager, I would have had to return for several years of post-secondary training and then work long hours for low pay for a design firm to fulfill my dream of decorating. This would never have happened,” says this mom with a degree in literature. “Staging Diva Training gave me the business tools and confidence to follow my lifelong passion for design.”

Debra Gould
http://www.articlesbase.com/entrepreneurship-articles/mother-of-three-finds-freedom-flexibility-and-success-in-less-than-one-year-as-a-home-stager-676943.html

When you are doing the interior decoration of your home, you have to take care of the minutest of details. Not that you had to be told about this, but here is a check list that might just help you to effectively manage the decoration of your home. Decorating one’s own home is a very exciting and pleasurable activity. One can derive immense joy in creative thinking and placing various kinds of objects strategically – right from the furniture to the walls to the curtains and even the curtain poles. Here is how you can start off:

You may or may not have a fair idea before starting the project of home renovation. Hold on! Before you decide the wall colour, it is better you decide a theme for your room, or just visualise how you want it to look like. A vague vision is also acceptable. Next, depending upon the vision you cherish, you can select a wall colour that will go along with your plans. Probably you want a bright room with a little ethnic touch, or you want to go for a modern and chick look where less is more.

Having decided the wall colour, you can then go for the furniture, fixtures and fittings. But hold on before you select the curtain poles. Before getting the curtain poles, it is better you decide on the curtains. Select a material and print that best suits the theme of the room. Then accordingly select the curtain poles. You can buy curtain poles that match with the curtains as well as the walls or look similar to the furniture. This makes the curtain poles look in line with the whole room.

Curtain poles may be just another piece of fixture in your room, but they have a critical role to play too. If they are a mismatch, then they will stand out and look out of place. This can spoil the entire beauty of the room – so be careful while you select your curtain poles.

Julia Brown
http://www.articlesbase.com/home-improvement-articles/interior-decoration-right-from-furniture-to-curtain-poles-215039.html

As you decorate and prepare your own home for the holiday season, don’t forget about the miniature home that you have displayed as well. There are a number of fun and creative options available to you as you think about ways to drape the holiday spirit over your miniature dollhouse and its exterior display.

Every Christmas needs a tree, and your dollhouse is no different. You can create a miniature Christmas tree in your dollhouse parlor or living room. Many manufacturers offer conifer trees that would be used to landscape the exterior of your dollhouse, but you can certainly use these trees indoors as well. You can buy a miniature Christmas tree that comes already decorated for the festivities, or you can rise to the challenge of crafting a miniature Christmas tree yourself. Add decorations that resemble your own tree to bring your holiday spirit into your dollhouse.

Another way to get your dollhouse ready to celebrate the holidays is to create and then place, some packages to put underneath the tree. Additional decorating ideas include running some garland down a staircase banister and hanging greenery throughout the dollhouse. Any miniature decorations of Santa or other Christmas themes will also enhance the Christmas feel of your miniature house.

There are also many holiday decorating ideas that involve the outside of your dollhouse. Consider stringing some miniature lights around the eaves of the house and around the doorways. If you enjoy detail work, then you will really enjoy making a small wreath to hang on the front door of your dollhouse. It creates an even more dramatic effect if you can work some lights into the wreath. Also, when thinking about the exterior landscape, don’t forget about the aesthetic value of artificial snow. The addition of snow will complete the transformation of your traditional dollhouse into a winter wonderland.

Another idea that can be fun is to bring your miniature people outdoors. Dress them warmly in tiny clothes and add scarves, and then have them playing in the snow or trying their hand at sledding. Think of the things a typical family would do during the holiday seasons and replicate that on a smaller scale. Remember that any creative idea you try will add to the holiday warmth and bring an air of a dollhouse Christmas to your scene, both indoors and out.

Veronica Scott
http://www.articlesbase.com/home-and-family-articles/a-dollhouse-christmas-you-can-create-131772.html

For my new home I would like to decorate with sleek modern design furniture & modular kitchen. Can someone please direct me to some stores who has good customer service review?

You can also check these stores in Kolkata – http://www.jantareview.com/Kolkata/c_40601/Furniture-Shopping

or check by brand – http://www.jantareview.com/Kolkata/brands/Furniture

Anything?

I have made some of the cutest christmas trees and wreaths, take the tomato wire planters and wrap a feather boa around it or do the same with a wreath. I have taken tumbleweeds and spray painted them white and silver and stacked them to look like a snowman and embellished with a scarf hat and decorative sticks for arms. Found a dead tree limb and painted it white and hung ornaments and icicles and put in a cute bucket with decorative rocks around it. Theres so much you can do, these are all really cheap and really easy to do! Good luck and Merry Christmas!

I want to decorate my home in either Spanish or Mexican, which do you think is more suitable for a couple in their early 30′s, (with child) something that doesn’t make it look too old folks like home, and is easy to maintain, can one combine the two? or its too much..

Some of your ideas would be great.
ps: I do have another question like this one. But need more help.

Thanx.

Personally I think you could mix elements of both and be successful–I like the bold colors that you can find in mexican tiles–the oranges, blues, yellows, etc…you could find a few pieces that you are drawn to and build off of those…I think both are easy to maintain and update and can be easy to incorporate into a home with a child…just because you choose one doesn’t mean you can’t mix in things you like from another—when it is done nicely it can be very eclectic and cool…good luck.

I want to study business in school and minor in art, or possibly double major.. Then I would like to get into the interior design field. Maybe working for a large firm or business. What sorts of jobs are available with this degree?

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